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Greater Racket-tailed Drongo

Dicrurus paradiseus

Photo by Dan Doucette
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

one of the most spectacular birds that I've easily spotted. distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips.

Habitat:

tropical rainforest edge

Notes:

I spotted this near the entrance to the Dairy Farm nature reserve. This bird landed in a tree just beside the trail and was quite calm, allowing me to approach fairly closely.

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Greater racket-tailed drongo

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Comments (7)
lhankin
Thank you! Your photo will be highlighted on Wednesday, September 24. Afterwards, you’ll be able to see your photo for about a month in the Pic of the Day Collection (www.greatnatureproject.org/collections/12). Thanks again for contributing to The Great Nature Project!
lhankin
Congratulations! We would like to highlight this photo as National Geographic’s Great Nature Project Pic of the Day! It will be featured in the lower left corner on The Great Nature Project website, as well as on NG Education Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ accounts. We will attribute this photo to you by using your username, dandoucette. Once we hear back from you (either here or via email to [email protected]), we’ll let you know which date we’ll highlight your photo. Please respond within 72 hours to let us know if you have any questions or concerns. If we don’t hear from you by then, we’ll assume everything is okay and we’ll share your image. Thank you for sharing your observations with The Great Nature Project!
Dan Doucette
Thanks Daniele. I was reading the differences in your link and I think you're right.
DanielePralong
Great series Dan! I think it's the Greater and not the Lesser: http://www.nss.org.sg/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2499

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PublishedAugust 30, 2014

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