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 LC    Velvet-mantled Drongo* Id (Atlas):
    Dicrurus modestus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Velvet-mantled Drongo, Forest Drongo, Principe Drongo (modestus)

Family
Dicruridae (Drongos)

Size
28 cm

First Described (Guide)
Hartlaub, 1849

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2012).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

 
Velvet-mantled Drongo (Dicrurus modestus) [XC263595]
     by Jacob C. Cooper from Rumpi Hills northwest of Dikome Balue, Cameroon (call)

 
Velvet-mantled Drongo (Dicrurus modestus) [XC636631]
     by id from Bakoumba, Lekoko, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon (song)

Subspecies
Velvet-mantled Drongo (Dicrurus modestus) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993), including the subspecies coracinus from west and central Africa, and the subspecies modestus confined to the island of Príncipe and Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) were previously treated as Dicrurus modestus (a monotypic species confined to Príncipe only) and Dicrurus adsimilis (including coracinus) following Collar and Andrew (1988). All are now lumped into Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993), for a review by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group found no precedent or justification in the primary literature for treating modestus as distinct.

Sometimes treated as conspecific with Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis), but recent DNA analysis supports recognition of two distinct species; both were previously thought to be part of a superspecies with Comoro Drongo (Dicrurus fuscipennis), Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrocercus), Mayotte Drongo (Dicrurus waldenii), Crested Drongo (Dicrurus forficatus) and Aldabra Drongo (Dicrurus aldabranus), but morphological and genetic differentiation too great to support such a relationship. Additional studies needed to clarify taxonomic position of subspecies coracinus and atactus, which intergrade fully in south-western Nigeria (Ondo and Benin provinces) and Cameroon; coracinus and subspecies divaricatus of Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) behave more or less as distinct species, differing in behaviour, voice and plumage, with limited hybridization in areas of range overlap (apparent hybrids reported in Nigeria, DRCongo and Angola); atactus initially described as a possible hybrid between those two taxa.

Proposed subspecies ugandensis regarded as a synonym of coracinus.

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • atactus Hartlaub, 1849   -  Sierra Leone, southern Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, south-western Ghana (southern from Kintampo and Tafo), southern Togo, southern Benin and south-western Nigeria; possibly western Cameroon, possibly also northern Angola, possibly also eastern DRCongo.
  • coracinus Verreaux, J & Verreaux, E, 1851   -  Southern Nigeria, Bioko I (Fernando Póo), southern Cameroon and south-western Central African Republic (Lobaye) east to extreme south-western Sudan (Bengegai), western and southern Uganda and western Kenya (Kakamega), south to Gabon, PRCongo, north-western Angola and central DRCongo (south to Kasai and Maniema).
  • modestus Hartlaub, 1849   -  Prí­ncipe I, in Gulf of Guinea.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Velvet-mantled Drongo (Dicrurus modestus) - 10 files


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