Square-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus ludwigii)

Other Names (World)
Square-tailed Drongo, Sharpe's Drongo (sharpei), Common Square-tailed Drongo

Family
Dicruridae (Drongos)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Smith, 1834)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical and tropical dry forest.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (73)...)

Common Square-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus ludwigii) [XC516580]
by Lous A. Hansen from Funo camp, Chita Forest, southern Udzungwa Scarp, Tanzania (call)

Common Square-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus ludwigii) [XC460548]
by Peter Boesman from Woodbush Forest Reserve, Mopani, Limpopo, South Africa (song)

Subspecies
Recent DNA studies indicate that closest relative is Shining Drongo (Dicrurus atripennis). Distinctive subspecies sharpei may merit treatment as a separate species.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

sharpei (Smith, 1834) - Southern Senegal east to Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, Uganda and western Kenya, extending south to northern Angola and northern DRCongo.
muenzneri Reichenow, 1915 - Southern Somalia, eastern and south-eastern Kenya, and eastern and southern Tanzania.
saturnus Clancey, 1976 - Angola (western escarpment east to Moxico), south-eastern DRCongo (Katanga) and Zambia.
tephrogaster Clancey, 1975 - Southern Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, and Mozambique (north of R Limpopo).
ludwigii (Smith, 1834) - Eastern South Africa, Swaziland and southern Mozambique.

References
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Files:

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