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Fork-tailed Drongo

Dicrurus adsimilis · Family Dicruridae

Dicrurus adsimilis

Family Dicruridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Dicruridae
GBIF occurrence records
476,703
Countries and territories with records
52
Fork-tailed Drongo
Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · Fork-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus adsimilis, at Marakele National Park, Limpopo, South Africa (45863627405).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Derek Keats from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Anne Ndung'u · Dicrurus_adsimilis_-_Fork-tailed_Drongo_XC404425.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Anne Ndung'u · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 476,703 occurrence records from 52 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (63.5%), Kenya (8.9%), Namibia (6.3%), Botswana (3.4%) and Tanzania (3.4%); together they account for 85.5% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.76% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Dicrurus adsimilis combines the genus name Dicrurus with the species epithet adsimilis. The Warbla app catalog lists 23 species of the genus Dicrurus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dicrurus macrocercus, Dicrurus paradiseus and Dicrurus leucophaeus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 24 species of the family Dicruridae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dicrurus macrocercus. Its record count is 3.2 times the family average (146,994). The family Dicruridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Dicruridae

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