Spangled Drongo

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Dicruridae

Genus

Dicrurus

eBird Code

spadro1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (11)

• Dicrurus bracteatus amboinensis

  southern Moluccas (Seram, Ambon, Haruku, and Saparua)

• Dicrurus bracteatus atrabectus

  northeastern Australia (southwestern Torres Strait islands, Cape York Peninsula to Wet Tropics region, northern Queensland); winters to south-central New Guinea

• Dicrurus bracteatus atrocaeruleus

  Halmahera, northern Moluccas

• Dicrurus bracteatus baileyi

  northwestern Australia (Kimberley, northern Western Australia, eastward to northern Northern Territory, including Tiwi islands)

• Dicrurus bracteatus bracteatus

  eastern Australia (Burdekin River, Queensland to southern Victoria); winters to Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland

• Dicrurus bracteatus buruensis

  Buru (southern Moluccas)

• Dicrurus bracteatus carbonarius

  New Guinea, including Aru Islands, D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade archipelagos (off southeastern New Guinea), and northwestern Torres Strait islands (far northeastern Australia)

• Dicrurus bracteatus laemostictus

  New Britain (southeastern Bismarck Archipelago)

• Dicrurus bracteatus longirostris

  Makira (southeastern Solomon Islands)

• Dicrurus bracteatus meeki

  Guadalcanal (southeastern Solomon Islands)

• Dicrurus bracteatus morotensis

  Morotai (Moluccas)