📸 PhotoPhoto: Fabian Roudra Baroi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Black Drongo
Dicrurus macrocercus (Black Drongo · オウチュウ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Its body length of 28 cm is similar to two ballpoint pens (about 14 cm each) placed end to end (Comparison).
- 💡 In Korea, it was observed just once, in May 1988 (1988-05), on a roadside utility pole in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do (National List of Species of Korea).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The black drongo is an all-black bird with a long tail that has been recorded once in Korea as a vagrant.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its entire body is black, with glossy black plumage on the upper neck, back, and breast. Its tail is deeply forked like a swallow's tail, and it flies in an undulating wave-like path.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It breeds in southeastern China and spends the winter in Indochina.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
According to the National List of Species of Korea, it is a vagrant observed once in May 1988 (1988-05) on a roadside utility pole in Seosan, Chungcheongnam-do.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2024) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22706961/263816137
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 263816137
- • 국가생물종목록(국립생물자원관) ktsn 120000001945 — https://species.nibr.go.kr/home/mainHome.do?cont_link=009&subMenu=009002&contCd=009002&ktsn=120000001945
- • wikidata.org — Q46435
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Black Drongo, Sylhet 06.jpg
- • species.nibr.go.kr — mainHome.do
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Ferran Sayol · CC0 1.0 (Congeneric silhouette — Dicrurus leucophaeus)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.