The fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo (Surniculus dicruroides) is a species of cuckoo that resembles a black drongo. It is found resident mainly in peninsular India in hill forests although some specimens are known from the Himalayan foothills. It can be easily distinguished by its straight beak and the white barred vent. It has a deeply forked tail often having a white spot on the back of the head. The song has been described as a series of 5 or 6 whistling "pip-pip-pip-pip-pip-" notes rising in pitch with each "pip".[2]
Call (recorded in southern India)Fork-tailed drongo-cuckoo
It is a brood parasite on small babblers. It is not known how or whether the drongo-like appearance benefits this species but it is suspected that it aids in brood-parasitism just as hawk-cuckoos appear like hawks.[3]
The species was described by Brian Hodgson from Nepal as Pseudornis dicruroides.[4] It was later placed as a subspecies of Surniculus lugubris. In 2005 it was suggested that the species was should be split from the more narrowly defined square-tailed drongo-cuckooSurniculus lugubris due to morphological and call differences.[2][5]
Referencesedit
^BirdLife International (2016). "Surniculus dicruroides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22736080A95124166. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22736080A95124166.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
^Davies NB & Welbergen JA (2008). "Cuckoo-hawk mimicry? An experimental test". Proc. Biol. Sci. 275 (1644): 1817–1822. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.0331. PMC2587796. PMID 18467298.
^Hodgson, B. (1839). "On Cuculus". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 8: 136–137.
^Fu-Min, Lei; Payne, Robert B. (2002). "Territorial songs of the drongo cuckoo complex (Surniculus lugubris & S. velutinus)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 50 (1): 205–213.
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