A greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) was spotted in Jhanjhrola on Sunday morning, likely the bird’s first recorded sighting in Gurugram district, birders said. The greater racket ...

On the plains of Africa, you’ll find a surprising cooperation between two typically adversarial animals—the drongo bird and the meerkat. As banks increase their risk appetite, which they have ...

In return, he gives the bird a tasty mealworm; then the drongo leaves to go about its usual, natural tasks: flying up from its perch to catch insects, and following other bird species or meerkats.

But one type of bird—the fork-tailed drongo—is particularly good at foiling the cuckoos’ sneaky plan known as brood parasitism, according to a new paper published Wednesday in the journal ...

When they turned their binoculars upwards, birdwatchers saw a black bird with long, ribbon-like tail feathers, longer than its body. It was a greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus), a ...

Although cuckoos’ eggshells vary in almost exactly the same ways, the birds seem to choose drongo nests to parasitise at random, rather than selecting those with the same egg patterns as their o ...

Birds are just as varied when it comes to perceptions of risk. The familiar Black Drongo is a daredevil that loves playing with fire — quite literally — using bushfires to its advantage by ...