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Species
Least ConcernWhite-bellied Drongo
species
Observations2,020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dicrurus
- Mass
- 40
- Image
- White-bellied Drongo (Dicrurus caerulescens) at Sindhrot near Vadodara, Gujrat Pix 078.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Dicrurus caerulescens
- taxon name
- Dicrurus caerulescens
- litter size
- 2.4
- taxon common name
- drongo-de-barriga-branca
- short name
- D. caerulescens
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Encyclopedic overview
The white-bellied drongo (Dicrurus caerulescens) is a species of drongo found across the Indian Subcontinent. Like other members of the family Dicruridae, they are insectivorous and mainly black in colour, but with a white belly and vent. Young birds are, however, all black and may be confused with the black drongo, which is smaller and more compact in appearance. The subspecies found in Sri Lanka has white restricted to the vent.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White-bellied Drongo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.