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  drongo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Most species have fl plumage with an iridescent purple or green shimmer and long, deeply forked tails.
Members of some species follow cattle in order to feed on the associated insects.
There are about 20 drongo species, classified in two genera, Dicrurus and Chaetorhynchus, of the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Dicruridae.
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 Search Australian Museum Online
Family: Dicruridae - Rufous Fantail (Paratype) Boar Pocket, Bellenden Ker Range, Qld, Australia...
Family: Dicruridae - Spectacled Monarch (Paratype) 30 miles WNW of Innisfail, Qld, Australia...
Family: Dicruridae - Rufous Fantail (Paratype) Cairns, Qld, Australia...
www.amonline.net.au /search.cfm?searchstring=Dicruridae   (259 words)

  
  iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Dicruridae Monarchidae Grallinidae Aegithinidae Malaconotidae Platysteiridae Prionopidae Vangidae Callaeidae Picathartidae Bombycillidae Cinclidae Muscicapidae Sturnidae
Australasian babblers Cinclosomatidae : whipbirds and allies Neosittidae : sittellas Pachycephalidae : whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis and allies Dicruridae : monarch flycatchers and allies Campephagidae...
Corvida) Australasian babblers Cinclosomatidae : (Corvida) whipbirds and allies Neosittidae : (Corvida) sittellas Pachycephalidae : (Corvida) whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis and allies Dicruridae...
dicruridae.iqexpand.com   (325 words)

  
 Magpie-lark - BIRD
Like many Australian birds, it was named for its apparent similarity to the Northern Hemisphere birds familiar to European settlers: in fact it is neither a magpie nor a lark and is not particularly closely related to either — though its actual relationship to other birds remains uncertain.
It was traditionally placed somewhere in-between the mud nest builders and the currawong family (both of which look rather similar), but in the light of modern DNA studies is now rather tentatively grouped with the flycatchers, fantails and drongos in the family Dicruridae.
The sexes are similar from a distance but easy to tell apart: the female has a white throat, the male a fl throat and a fl eyestripe.
bird.net.au /bird/index.php?title=Mudlark   (664 words)

  
 drongo on Encyclopedia.com
DRONGO [drongo], any of the insect-eating Old World birds of the family Dicruridae.
Members of some species follow cattle in order to feed on the associated insects.
There are about 20 drongo species, classified in two genera, Dicrurus and Chaetorhynchus, of the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Dicruridae.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/d1/drongo.asp   (341 words)

  
 Dicrurus aldabranus
Bird List: Dicruridae: Comoro Drongo; Dicrurus aldabranus (Ridgway, 1893) - Aldabra Drongo; Dicrurus forficatus (Linnaeus, 1766) - Crested Drongo: Ricinus...
Index of Species in the family Dicruridae (Drongos): 168-4.
Index of Species in the family Drongos (Dicruridae): 180-4.1, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Dicrurus modestus.
specieslist.com /endangered/scientific_name/D/Dicrurus_aldabranus.shtml   (1293 words)

  
 drongo --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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any of 20 species of Old World woodland birds constituting the family Dicruridae (order Passeriformes).
Drongos frequently attack much larger birds (e.g., hawks and crows) that might hurt their eggs or young; innocuous birds (such as doves and orioles) nest near drongos to gain protection.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9031228   (725 words)

  
 A Revision of the bird family Dicruridae. - VAURIE,CHARLES.,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
VAURIE,CHARLES., A Revision of the bird family Dicruridae.
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 COMPARATIVE BATHING BEHAVIOR IN SOME AUSTRALIAN BIRDS
Received 6 Dec. 1990; accepted 12 Jan. 1991.
The bathing behavior of Alcedinidae (2 species), Dicruridae (1), Meliphagidae (16), Meropidae (1), Muscicapidae (5) and Zosteropidae (1) is described and compared with that of other species.
The birds were observed from a blind while they bathed in a water hole with a sloping shore line and flanked on one side by shrubs.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v062n03/p0386-p0389.html   (2159 words)

  
 Grand Comoro Drongo
ADW: Dicruridae: Classification: Species Dicrurus fuscipennis (Comoro drongo and Grand Comoro drongo).
Species Dicrurus hottentottus (hair-crested drongo and spangled drongo).
Les oiseaux dicruridae:...- [ Translate this page ]...
specieslist.com /endangered/common_name/G/Grand_Comoro_Drongo.shtml   (205 words)

  
 PALAEOTROPICAL REGION - Online Information article about PALAEOTROPICAL REGION
Of the many characteristic birds may be mentioned Pycnonotidae or bulbuls, of which the Phyllornithinae are peculiar, Campephagidae or See also:
cuckoo-shrikes, Dicruridae or drongos, Nectariniidae or sunbirds; pheasants, together with Pavo and See also:
Some of the similarities to the Ethiopian and the great See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PALAEOTROPICAL_REGION.html   (1663 words)

  
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