Fork-tailed drongo

Weight

40.3 g – 46 g

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Invertivore

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

woodland

Egg incubation

16 days

Young per litter or clutch

2.7

Litters or clutches a year

2.5

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 adsimilis (Bechstein, 1794)

Synonyms Corvus adsimilis

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

B

Bronzed drongo

Dicrurus aeneus

DicruridaeNo free photo yet

A

Andaman drongo

Dicrurus andamanensis

DicruridaeNo free photo yet

W

White-bellied drongo

Dicrurus caerulescens

DicruridaeNo free photo yet

CompareFork-tailed drongo vs Black drongoFork-tailed drongo vs Greater Racket-tailed drongoFork-tailed drongo vs Ashy drongoFork-tailed drongo vs Bronzed drongo

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@misc{fork_tailed_drongo_2026,
  title = {Fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/fork-tailed-drongo},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}