Fork-Tailed Drongo

The fork-tailed drongo is also known as the African drongo or common drongo. It is found only in Africa, from the Sahel (below the Sahara) to South Africa. I saw several of them in Kidepo Valley NP in northern Uganda. 

Note the outer veins of the primaries (wings) are brown, reddish-brown eyes and deeply forked tail. 

It has a narrow fork-shaped tail, red-brownish eyes, and black plumage. 

Illustration from Birds of the World.

Its diet is mostly butterflies, termites and grasshoppers. There are four subspecies. I saw ssp. fugax which is smaller than the nominate, the outer vanes of the primaries are brown, the inner vanes of the primaries are dark and it has a deeply forked tail. It is found in Uganda, Kenya (including Zanzibar), Tanzania, southeastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, eastern Eswatini and northeastern South Africa.  

Range from Birds of the World.