
The long tailed Drongo is an Asian sparrow, numerond aggressive. Dronge considered extraordinary due the courage they use when they attack bigger birds, swooping down on them. Due the rage it use when throwing the intruders out its nest, whether it’s a crow, a hawk or a ferocious predatory, the Englishmen use to call him “King Crow”. During its attacks, when he shows all its qualities in manouevres capabilities, the Drongo uses to let out furious yells.
Pretty easy to find in India and also known in Ceylon Island, to Java and China, it often uses to stand on a sort of rod or sometimes on the phone wires or on the dead branch of a tree as emplacement to observe the territory around. From up there, he can survey the environs, particularly looking for insects flying around or living on the ground.
To the Drongo, insects represent the 100% of the feeding. As an enterprising bird, Drongo is able to see the insects, gathered by the flying of other birds’ storms, catching them one by one. Thus, it willingly flies alongside storms of different species of birds, often following their leader, hunting the insects. The Drongo and the other birds’ species don’t compete one another, having no feeding in common, so their relation – also called ‘table companion relation’ – is optimal to the Drongo. It haunts cultivated fields and uses to nest between the branches. Its nest, made of dry grass and fibres, is fixed to the branches as a sort of suspended hammock. It uses to lay 3 up to 5 black-dotted white or pink eggs per time.
Its plumage, including its 15 cm long, large forked tail, is totally black, with some blue hues. Sometimes it shows a small white notch at the bottom of its beak.