Listen to the black drongo
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About the black drongo
The black drongo is a bird in the family Dicruridae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults have a wingspan of about 38 cm.
What does the black drongo sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as call, alarm call, song and nocturnal flight call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) is a small Asian passerine bird of the drongo family Dicruridae. It is a common resident breeder in much of tropical southern Asia from southwest Iran through Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to southern China and Indonesia and accidental visitor of Japan. It is an all black bird with a distinctive forked tail and measures 28 cm (11 in) in length. It feeds on insects, and is common in open agricultural areas and light forest throughout its range, perching conspicuously on a bare perch or along power or telephone lines.
Related birds in the genus Dicrurus
Frequently asked questions
What does a black drongo sound like?
You can hear 5 recordings of the black drongo on this page, including its call, alarm call and song. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the black drongo endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the black drongo as “least concern”.
What family does the black drongo belong to?
The black drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus) belongs to the family Dicruridae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Alarm call, call, song · BTPS-DEEPNAGAR-500 MW TURBINE/400KV YARD ROAD, India by Lakshmikant Neve – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Calcutta, Tollygunge, India by Sudipto Roy – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Springdale lake, Tirupati, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India by K L Vinay – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · Canara Bank Layout, Bengaluru, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka… by Mike Prince – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call, nocturnal flight call · Bhupal housing Colony, Tirupati, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh… by K L Vinay – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q46435 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Black drongo – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Fabian Roudra Baroi – CC BY-SA 4.0