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Black Drongo

Dicrurus macrocercus

Photo by surekha
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

Beautiful black bird with a fork tail and a distinct white rictal spot.

Notes:

Love this super black bird, spotted on the Alstonia scholaris or the Indian Devil tree today and had to photograph him though I had clicked a few earlier! Very true to its trait of being fearless and aggressive, it stared at me, turned around a few times but did not fly away :)

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Black Drongo

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Comments (11)
surekha
Thanks for the lovely comment, josefina1 :)
surekha
Thank you so much, Adarsha :)
Adarsha B S
Last pic is absolutely amazing Surekha :) Love it :)
surekha
Thanks a lot for the kind words Nayeli, Ava and Mary :)
surekha
Thanks for the nice comment, Jemma. Yes the silhouette makes it conspicuous.
surekha
Thank you very much Daniele, Ali and Marta :)

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PublishedOctober 9, 2013

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