By papilloncharity on Skatehive
And the one sat in a very unusual position between two bodyguards :) It was a Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimillis), and you will see his bodyguards in the picture below. I heard the strange calls and rushed outside expecting a bird of prey. But no, it wasn't a bird of prey, but rather the drongo mimicking one. They are known for mimicking other birds, and even a cat's meow in song. He sat on a high tree, about 40 meters away, and one can hear a drongo's song from even a longer distance away. Although I was working from our bird book, I wanted to see what Wikipedia says about the drongo. The fork-tailed drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis), also called the common drongo or African drongo, is a small bird found from the Sahel to South Africa that lives in wooded habitats, particularly woodlands and savannas. It is part of the family Dicruridae and has four recognized subspecies, D. a adsimilis, D. a. apivorus, D. a. fugax and D. a. jubaensis. Like other drongos, the fork-tailed is mostly inse