Ashy Drongo

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Dicruridae (Drongos)

Ashy Drongo

Dicrurus leucophaeus

灰卷尾 (huī juǎn-wěi)

    Malay : Cecawi Kelabu

    Japanese : ハイイロオウチュウ (hai-iro ōchū)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 灰色烏秋

    Extent of Occurrence (resident/breeding) : 21,200,000km²
    Extent of Occurrence (non-breeding) : 16,600,000km²
    Migratory Status : Full Migrant
    Breeding Endemic : No

    Size : 25.5–29 cm (nominate), 23–26 cm (leucogenis); 26–28 cm, 32–45 g (longicaudatus);
              26–30 cm, 40–55 g (hop­woodi); one female ca. 24 cm, 34 g (salangenis)

    Subspecies (15) and Distribution

    EBIRD GROUP (POLYTYPIC)

    Ashy Drongo (Blackish) Dicrurus leucophaeus [longicaudatus Group]

• Dicrurus leucophaeus longicaudatus (Jerdon, 1862, Segour Pass, Nilgiris)
  – Southern Himalayas from extreme eastern Afghanistan east to Bhutan and hills of Madhya Pradesh (9); non-breeding at lower altitudes and through Indian peninsula (except Punjab, Sind, and arid parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat) south to Sri Lanka.
• Dicrurus leucophaeus hopwoodi (Stuart Baker, 1918, Dacca, southeastern Bengal)
  – Eastern Himalayas (east from Bhutan), eastern Tibet through southwestern and southern China (to southern Guangdong), northern and central Myanmar east to northern Vietnam; migrates south to West Bengal, southern Assam, Bangladesh, southern China (Hainan), and southern Myanmar, northern, and eastern Thailand and southern Laos.
• Dicrurus leucophaeus nigrescens (Oates, 1889, Kyeikpaden, near Pegu Town)
  – Southern Myanmar (Tenasserim) and Malay Peninsula (west of Main Range) south (including Phuket Island and Pinang Island) to Johor; post-breeding dispersal south to Singapore.

    EBIRD GROUP (POLYTYPIC)

    Ashy Drongo (Sooty) Dicrurus leucophaeus [leucophaeus Group]

• Dicrurus leucophaeus mouhoti (Walden, 1870, Cambodia; restricted to Angkor by Riley 1940)
  – Central, southwestern, and eastern Myanmar, northern and eastern Thailand, and central Indochina; migrates to southern Myanmar, southern Thailand, and Cambodia.
• Dicrurus leucophaeus celaenus (Oberholser, 1912, Simalur Island)
  – Simeulue (off western Sumatra).
• Dicrurus leucophaeus bondi (Meyer de Schauensee, 1937, Ubol Chanuman [Ban Chanuman, near Ban Khemmarat, eastern Thailand on the Mekong])
  – Western and eastern Thailand, Cambodia, southern Laos, and southern Vietnam.
• Dicrurus leucophaeus leucophaeus (Vieillot, 1817, 'Ceylon' (error for Java). Based on 'le Drongri,' Levaillant 1805)
  – Java, Bali, Lombok, Palawan, Calamian, and Balabac islands.

    EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

    Ashy Drongo (White-cheeked) Dicrurus leucophaeus leucogenis

• Dicrurus leucophaeus leucogenis (Walden, 1870, Nagasaki, Japan, error; type locality corrected to China by Baker 1921; restricted to Ichang. Hupeh, by Deignan 1945)
  – Eastern and central China from Liaoning south (east from northern Gansu and Sichuan) to northeastern Guangdong; migrates to southern China, northern Laos, eastern Thailand, Cambodia, Tenasserim, and Malay Peninsula (both western and eastern coastal plains).

    EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

    Ashy Drongo (White-lored) Dicrurus leucophaeus salangensis

• Dicrurus leucophaeus salangensis (Reichenow, 1890, 'Insula Salanga' [Junk Seylon or Phuket])
  – Southeastern China south of Yangtze River (to Fujian–Guangdong border); migrates south to Hainan, southern Indochina, eastern, central, and southern Thailand, and Malay Peninsula.

    EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

    Ashy Drongo (Hainan) Dicrurus leucophaeus innexus

• Dicrurus leucophaeus innexus (Swinhoe, 1870, Chinlan River, Wenchang District, northeastern Hainan)
  – Hainan.

    EBIRD GROUP (MONOTYPIC)

    Ashy Drongo (Bornean) Dicrurus leucophaeus stigmatops

• Dicrurus leucophaeus stigmatops (Sharpe, 1879, Mt. Kina Balu, northwestern Borneo)
  – Borneo.

    EBIRD GROUP (POLYTYPIC)

    Ashy Drongo (Sumatran) Dicrurus leucophaeus [periophthalmicus Group]

• Dicrurus leucophaeus periophthalmicus (Salvadori, 1894, Si Oban, Sipora Island, Mentawei group)
  – Sipura and Pagai Islands, off western Sumatra.
• Dicrurus leucophaeus siberu (Chasen & Kloss, 1926, Siberut Island, Mentawei group)
  – Siberut, off western Sumatra.
• Dicrurus leucophaeus batakensis (Robinson & Kloss, 1919, Bandar Baroe, Deli, northeastern Sumatra)
  – Northern Sumatra (Aceh and Batak Highlands).
• Dicrurus leucophaeus phaedrus (Reichenow, 1904, Padang, western Sumatra)
  – Central and southern Sumatra.

Distribution Map

Dicrurus leucophaeus ssp. stigmatops
Date : 11 February 2016

Location : Kinabalu Park, Ranau, Bahagian Pantai Barat, Sabah