Yesterday morning a Spangled Drongo was perched on the lowest limb of the paperbark that overhangs the driveway. This is a bird that truly does not deserve its name. Irridescent black and green with a graceful forked tail and red eye, the "spangled"part of the name fits, but what cruel person decided on adding "drongo"? This bird spends a lot of time in the foliage in the garden, perching, still and intent, for minutes at a time before swooping across to another branch, presumably catching an unwary insect in flight.
Claire Wood
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