Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Dicrurus [adsimilis, divaricatus or modestus]

Your sightings

Related taxa

Alternative arrangements:  1  2  3  4 

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Other related concepts

• Dicrurus [adsimilis x modestus] (hybrid)

Other synonyms

See also the taxonomic synonyms table.

Bulgarian: Кадифено дронго
Catalan: drongo modest
Czech: drongo principeský
Danish: Fløjlsrygget Drongo
German: Fante-/Samtdrongo, Flaggendrongo, Samtdrongo, Schlichtdrongo
English: Fanti/Velvet-mantled Drongo, Forest Drongo, Principe Drongo, Príncipe Drongo, Velvet mantled Drongo, Velvet-mantled Drongo, Velvet-mantled or Fanti Drongo
English (Avilist): Velvet-mantled Drongo
English, HBW: Velvet-mantled Drongo
English (IOC): Fanti/Velvet-mantled Drongo, Velvet-mantled Drongo
English (Kenya): Velvet-mantled Drongo
English (United States): Fanti/Velvet-mantled Drongo, Velvet-mantled Drongo
Esperanto: velura drongo
Spanish: Drongo Fanti/Modesto, Drongo Modesto
Spanish (Spain): Drongo fanti/modesto, Drongo Modesto
Spanish (HBW): Velvet-mantled Drongo
Estonian: panterdrongo
Finnish: samettidrongo
French: Drongo modeste, Drongo modeste ou D. d'Oberholser
French (Guyane): Drongo d'Oberholser ou D. modeste
Croatian: mrki drongo
Hungarian: bársonydrongó
Italian: Drongo vellutato
Japanese (romaji): biroudoouchuu, kuroouchuu
Japanese: クロオウチュウ, ビロウドオウチュウ, ビロードオウチュウ
Scientific: Dicrurus [modestus or atactus], Dicrurus adsimilis atactus, Dicrurus adsimilis modestus, Dicrurus atactus/modestus, Dicrurus modestus, Dicrurus modestus [modestus or atactus], Dicrurus modestus atactus, Dicrurus modestus modestus
Lithuanian: Gvinėjinis drongas
Dutch: Bosdrongo, Fluweelmanteldrongo, Zwartrugdrongo
Norwegian Nynorsk: Jungeldrongo
Norwegian: Jungeldrongo
Polish: Dziwogon aksamitny, dziwogon gwinejski/widłosterny, dziwogon widlosterny, dziwogon widłosterny
Portuguese: Drongo-do-príncipe
Portuguese (Angola): Drongo-de-dorso-mate
Portuguese (Portugal): drongo-fante/drongo-modesto, drongo-modesto
Russian: Гвинейский/Лесной дронго, Лесной дронго
Slovak: drongo družný/zamatový, drongo zamatový
Serbian: Fanti/somotasti drongo, Somotasti drongo
Swedish: fanti-/sammetsdrongo, Principedrongo, sammetsdrongo
Swahili: Mramba Mahameli
Turkish: Kadife Sırtlı Drongo, Mavi-mor/kadife sırtlı drongo
Ukrainian: Дронго гвінейський/узлісний, Дронго узлісний
Chinese: 绒背卷尾
Chinese (Traditional): 絨篷卷尾