Another horrible photo of a drongo which I identified as a black drongo on iNaturalist and another identifier indicated it was a bronzed drongo. This is a case where the illustration doesn't do it justice. Photos of the bronzed drongo show its body has a very shiny metallic glossed surface with spangling, which means small sparkling objects, except for the area around the eye which is more of a flat black. It has a long forked tail. "Bronzed" typically means a tanned brown, but that is not this bird at all.
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| Illustration of the bronzed drongo from Birds of the World. |
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| My photos of the bronzed drongo from the Eastern Range of Kaziranga NP in Assam, India. The photos are poor, but do show the shiny metallic gloss. |
It is found in the western and eastern ghats of India (the western and eastern coasts of the Indian peninsula), the lower Himalayas from western Uttaranchal eastward into Indo China and Hainan, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and northern Borneo.
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| Range of the bronzed drongo from Birds of the World. |
Guess you need to go back for a better photo.
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