Crow-billed Drongo

The crow-billed drongo is a glossy black drongo 27–32 cm long with a heavy, elongated bill and a shallowly forked tail whose outer feathers curve outward. Juveniles may show white spotting on the breast and belly. Compared with the black drongo it is glossier, heavier-billed and less deeply fork-tailed, and it lacks a white loral spot. It also lacks the elongated outer tail feathers of the greater racket-tailed drongo (Birds of Singapore).

It breeds from the eastern Himalayas through northern mainland Southeast Asia and southern China, then disperses south as far as Sumatra and Java outside the breeding season. Dense evergreen and moist deciduous forest are primary habitats, with secondary forest and mangroves also used. Birds usually forage alone in shaded lower and middle levels but sometimes join mixed flocks. A pair constructs a cup nest in a branch fork, after which the female incubates the eggs (BirdForum species account; Wikipedia, general species account).