Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo

The lesser racket-tailed drongo is 25–27.5 cm long excluding the outermost tail feathers, with the whole bird about 30–40 cm to the tail end. Males weigh 39–49 g and females 35.5–44 g. The feathers are black with a bluish metallic gloss, and the tail ends have long shafts of more than 50 cm. It can be confused with the greater racket-tailed drongo, but lacks a crest and has a square-cut tail (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, near the edge or inside of subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The cached account gives no diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident and local migrant of forest that eats invertebrates, with a Moderate range of about 82,200 km² and a current decline of about 5% a year (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).