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Alternative Names:
English (Rob 6): Forktailed Drongo
English (Rob 7): Fork-tailed Drongo
English: African Drongo
German: Trauerdrongo
French: Drongo brillant
Indigenous: iNtengu(Z),Intengu(X),Ntene(K),Theko(NS),Nhengu(Sh),Nhengure(Sh),Matengu(Ts),Ntengu(Ts),Kuamosi(Tw)
Scientific Explained:
adsimilis: Latin, like or similar (also written assimilis).
dicrurus: Greek dikrous, forked or bifurcate.
Measurements: Length male 25 cm, female 22,5-24 cm; wing (58 male) 123-134-143, (32 female) 120-130,7-139; tail (34 male) 104-116,4-126, (18 female) 102-114,1-124; tarsus (38) 21-24; culmen (38) 19-23. Weight (4 male) 38,1-40-42,4 g, (1 female) 23,7 g, (14 unsexed) 37,7-50,1-58 g.
Bare Parts: Iris deep red; bill, legs and feet black.
Identification: Size medium; black with purplish sheen all over; tail longish, deeply notched or forked (less so in female); in moult, tail often has double fork until fully grown out; in flight wings pale, translucent, almost whitish; albinos and partial albinos rarely occur. Similar to Black Flycatcher but somewhat larger; bill heavier, deeper at base, hooked at tip; forehead tends to slope back from bill (forehead higher and more rounded in Black Flycatcher); tail more deeply forked (but sometimes fairly deeply notched in Black Flycatcher); perches with legs flexed, belly on branch (Black Flycatcher often perches high on legs); eye red (visible in good light only; brown in Black Flycatcher). Larger than Squaretailed Drongo, with more deeply forked tail; inhabits open woodland (Squaretailed Drongo inhabits forest). Immature: Below grey, densely speckled pale grey.
Voice: Song loud jumble of strident twanging, creaking and rasping sounds like unoiled wooden wagonwheels; imitates other birdcalls; callnote single trumpetlike twank or twillang; vocal on moonlit nights; gentle tweep flight call.
Distribution: Africa S of Sahara; almost throughout s Africa, except w Karoo and Namaqualand.
Status: Common resident; may have some short-distance local movements.
Habitat: Woodland, savanna, riverine Acacia, exotic plantations, farmyards, gardens, parks, open grassveld with perches (e.g. fences, isolated trees), forest edge; avoids forest interior.
Habits: Usually solitary or in pairs; sometimes in groups of up to 20 birds; may join bird parties. Perches on conspicuous branch, post or large herbivorous mammal; sallies out to catch prey in flight or on ground, often returning to same perch; attracted to grassfires. Flight buoyant, undulating and agile. Mobs larger raptors, owls, hornbills, crows, small mammals; aggressive at nest, even attacking man; may rob food from other birds; kills and carries small birds in feet or bill; may feed by holding prey with foot and tearing with hooked bill. Bathes by plunge-diving from air or perch; drinks by sucking and raising head to swallow.
Food: Insects (especially bees, when available), small birds (white-eyes, mannikins, canaries), fish (caught by plunging like kingfisher), nectar.
Breeding: Season: October to January in KwaZulu-Natal, August to January (mainly September-November) in Zimbabwe; 2-3 broods/season; only known host of African Cuckoo. Nest: Strongly woven, thin-walled, often transparent, shallow saucer of rootlets, tendrils and twigs, neatly bound with spider web; usually suspended hammocklike in horizontal fork of tree, well away from main trunk; less often more substantial bowl of plant material or sheep’s wool placed on top of horizontal branch; 2-12 m above ground. Clutch: (172) 2-2,8-4 eggs (usually 3). Eggs: Highly variable; white, cream or pink, plain or spotted with dark pink, reddish brown or blackish; measure (336) 24,3 x 18,2 (21,2-28,3 x 16,7-20,1). Incubation: 16-17 days. Nestling: 17-18 days.

Question by : Do you like my poem? What do you think it means?
Inspire a generation
Get Lisa off her knees

Think of all the money
Trying to avoid the squeeze

If that could raise a surplus
And you could spend it as you please

What would you compete for,
When going like busy bees?

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