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Fanti Drongo (Dicrurus atactus)

Fanti Drongo
Photo: Francesco Veronesi from Italy via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Fanti Drongo

The velvet-mantled drongo (Dicrurus modestus) is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae. It is found throughout the Cameroon line and the African tropical rainforest. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2012. IOC World Bird Names (v 2.11). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ [Accessed 2/27/2012].

Source: Velvet-mantled drongo on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Fanti Drongo. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:29) via xeno-canto.org/144125, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Ghana, Liberia · xeno-canto lists 11 recordings for this species in total.

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