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Hair-crested Drongo
Dicrurus hottentottus · Family Dicruridae
Dicrurus hottentottus
Family Dicruridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicruridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 116,244
- Countries and territories with records
- 30
About this species
This species has 116,244 occurrence records from 30 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (43.8%), Thailand (20.5%), Indonesia (5.2%), China (5.2%) and Nepal (4.7%); together they account for 79.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.083% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dicrurus hottentottus combines the genus name Dicrurus with the species epithet hottentottus. 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 8th 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.