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Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus paradiseus · Family Dicruridae
Dicrurus paradiseus
Family Dicruridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Dicruridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 365,238
- Countries and territories with records
- 19
About this species
This species has 365,238 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (72.7%), Thailand (10.6%), Malaysia (6.2%), Singapore (4.7%) and Cambodia (1.4%); together they account for 95.7% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.43% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dicrurus paradiseus combines the genus name Dicrurus with the species epithet paradiseus. 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 leucophaeus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 24 species of the family Dicruridae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dicrurus macrocercus. Its record count is 2.5 times the family average (146,994). The family Dicruridae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.