Bronzed drongo

Weight

25.9 g – 27 g

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Invertivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forest

Young per litter or clutch

2.8

Lifestyle

Perching

Migration

Sedentary

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classAves
4. orderPasseriformes
5. familyDicruridae
6. genusDicrurus
7. SpeciesDicrurus aeneus Vieillot, 1817

Synonyms Chaptia aenea, Chaptia aenea kwangsiensis

Catalogue of Life

LC, Least Concern

Black drongo

Dicrurus macrocercus

Dicruridae

G

Greater Racket-tailed drongo

Dicrurus paradiseus

DicruridaeNo free photo yet

A

Ashy drongo

Dicrurus leucophaeus

DicruridaeNo free photo yet

F

Fork-tailed drongo

Dicrurus adsimilis

DicruridaeNo free photo yet

A

Andaman drongo

Dicrurus andamanensis

DicruridaeNo free photo yet

W

White-bellied drongo

Dicrurus caerulescens

DicruridaeNo free photo yet

CompareBronzed drongo vs Black drongoBronzed drongo vs Greater Racket-tailed drongoBronzed drongo vs Ashy drongoBronzed drongo vs Fork-tailed drongo

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@misc{bronzed_drongo_2026,
  title = {Bronzed drongo (Dicrurus aeneus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/bronzed-drongo},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}