Black Drongo is ferocious by nature, especially in the breeding season, it has very strong territorial behavior, and is usually very active and likes to fight in groups. Mainly eat insects in the wild. At present, it is mainly distributed in Lang to India, China, Southeast Asia, Java and Bali.

English name: Black Drongo

Binomial: Dicrurus macrocercus

Kingdom: Animal Kingdom

Phylum: Phylum Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Class: Aves

Subclass: Neornithes

Orders: Neognathae, Passeriformes

Suborder: Songbirds (Passerii)

Family: Dicruridae

Genus: Dicrurus

Type: Black Curly Tail

Distribution: Iran, Afghanistan southeast to South and Southeast Asia, Russia, Taiwan Island and Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, North China in mainland China Provinces, west to Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, areas south of the Yangtze River, west to Yunnan, Hainan and other places

Black curly-tailed male adult (breeding plumage): plumage is brilliant black; forehead and eyes are down black (with a dirty white spot at the corner of the mouth of individual specimens, but less obvious). The upper body is from the head, back to the waist and the upper tail coverts, dark black, with copper green metallic glitter; tail feathers are dark black, with copper green luster on the surface; the central pair of tail feathers is the shortest, and grows in order to the outside, and the outermost one The pair is the longest, its ends are curled outwards and upwards, and the ends of the tail feathers are deeply forked; the wings are dark brown, and the outer feathers and wing coverts have a copper-green metallic luster. The underparts are black-brown from the chin, throat to the undertail coverts, with a copper-green metallic luster only on the chest; the underwing coverts and axillary feathers are dark brown.

Female adult bird: The body color is similar to that of the male bird, except that the feather surface is slightly stained with copper green metallic luster.

Juveniles: Body plumage dark brown, with slightly metallic luster on the back and shoulders; dark brown from upper waist to upper tail coverts, the latter with dirty gray-white feathers End, scaly margins; tail feathers dark brown; wing horns dirty grayish white. The lower body, flanks and undertail coverts are black-brown, all with dirty gray-white feather margins; individual specimens have black-brown bases of undertail coverts, with gray-white feathers up to 11mm long, and the appearance is dirty gray-white. [1]

Nestlings: The nestlings are covered with dark brown-black down feathers.

Iris reddish brown: mouth and feet dark black; claws dark corners.

Size measurement: body weight ♂40-65g, ♀42-57g; body length ♂235-300mm, ♀243-285mm; mouth peak ♂21-29mm, ♀21- 28mm; wings ♂135-152mm, ♀133-144mm; tail ♂133-176mm, ♀129-166mm; tars ♂18-23mm, ♀18-22mm. (Note: ♂ male; ♀ female)

Usually perched on the tops of trees at the foot of the mountain or along the streams, or on the telephone poles erected in the fields. Catch for food on or near the ground, and then return to a high place to fly straight, forming a letter-like flight. It also often landed on the backs of livestock grazing in the pastures, pecking at the worms that were startled by the livestock. They are aggressive birds with ferocious habits, especially during the breeding period, when birds such as red-footed falcons, crows, and magpies invade or approach their nests, they rise up to attack and invade. until they are driven out of the nest area.

The black curly tail is noisy and rough, like chiben-chaben continuous chirping, echoing each other one after another, especially in the early morning and dawn, so the villagers give it the nickname Li Ji.

The black curly tail can prey on flying insects in the air during flight, similar to the swift gliding and tossing of the barn swallow, commonly known as black curly tail in the south Fishtail swallow. The food is mainly insects, such as dragonflies, locusts, dragonflies, wasps, golden flower bugs, gourds, cicadas, Tianshe moth larvae, stink bugs and other membranous, elytra and lepidopteran insects.

The feed of the black curly tail can be arranged according to your feeding situation. Parents who are free can make their own food, provided that the nutrition must be properly matched, and parents who are short on time can buy finished feed. Feeding, you can also provide vegetables and fruits for people to eat, etc. Below we will introduce the feeding of black curly tail in detail.

For the feed of young birds, you can mix minced meat, cooked egg yolk, cornmeal (or chicken feed) in the ratio of 6U2U2; add vitamins and trace element additives, and use water Make into porridge (young chicks with just feather buds) or noodles (young birds with full feathers). The chicks need to be fed with porridge-like feed with bamboo grate. Young birds can be fed by hand-twisted boluses that grow up to 1 cm and have two pointed ends. The adult bird feed is pure soft feed, and the ingredients are basically the same as the juvenile bird feed, except that some fruit and vegetable foam are added.

The black curly tail can also be fed with soft feed, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. In order to keep the feed fresh, and the birds can eat enough, the feeding should be done regularly, so that the birds can develop the habit of feeding regularly; because the soft food is easy to deteriorate, especially in summer or during the mildew rain period, special attention should be paid, and the feeding in the afternoon can be delayed. Feed, take out after the bird has eaten, must not stay overnight. The newly caught adult birds are wild and suitable for keeping in dark and quiet bird cages. Feed them in the afternoon and evening. The feed is made into the size of soybeans and placed in the feeding basin for their own consumption. If they have not eaten for a long time, Open mouthparts for feeding, and gradually change to pot feeding after 2-3 days after they are familiar with the environment. Newly raised birds will sing on their own from 3-5 days.