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White-bellied Drongo

Dicrurus caerulescens · Family Dicruridae

Dicrurus caerulescens

Family Dicruridae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Dicruridae
GBIF occurrence records
116,332
Countries and territories with records
6
White-bellied Drongo
J.M.Garg · White-bellied Drongo (Dicrurus caerulescens) at Sindhrot near Vadodara, Gujrat Pix 078.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · J.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 116,332 occurrence records from 6 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (70%), Sri Lanka (28.1%) and Nepal (1.8%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.13% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Dicrurus caerulescens combines the genus name Dicrurus with the species epithet caerulescens. 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 adsimilis and Dicrurus paradiseus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 24 species of the family Dicruridae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dicrurus macrocercus. Its record count is 79.1% of the family average (146,994). The family Dicruridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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