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Fork-tailed Drongo
- Scientific name
- Dicrurus adsimilis
- Family
- Dicruridae
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Habitat
- Woodland
- Wing shape
- Pointed
- Tail shape
- Forked
Where it came from
The Fork-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus adsimilis, is a passerine bird native to sub-Saharan Africa. Evolutionarily, its distinctive deeply forked tail and pointed wings have adapted it for agile, acrobatic flight, allowing it to excel as an aerial insectivore that frequently hunts by sallying from exposed perches.
The species is noted in behavioral biology for its sophisticated mimetic abilities. It frequently imitates the alarm calls of other bird species and mammals to deceive them, causing them to flee and abandon their food, which the drongo then steals. This kleptoparasitic behavior has made it a subject of extensive study in the field of animal cognition and deceptive signaling.
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