#lesser racket-tailed drongo

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The Elusive Lesser

A Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus remifer) making a rare appearance in a lower layer of the Rain Forest in the botanic gardens. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

Unlike the Greater Racket-tailed, this drongo mostly forages in the closed canopy of the forest and is therefore less seen in the open.

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Drongo (Dicrurus) - round 1, section 2

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Decided to challenge myself by drawing every single TLK character out there, up until this point in time, and post it here. You can see the finished project on my main account, though I figured to post it on my tumblr just show I could proudly show off my work and a few of my head canons.

Here's part two of all the non-raptor birds across TLG/K:

Starting strong with the egrets we have Ono/Maono(vision). The last of the Guard members to be featured here, though hardly due to lack of interest. I do like Ono, for how know-it-all and blunt he can be, I do see the appeal in his respectful and pragmatic nature, plus seeing him in his arc in the third season. He eventually becomes the Night Pride's majordomo/scout for the Day Guard, filling in for the time of day when Rani and her group are asleep and Kion and his team are awake. Ono, like myself, if also ace-aro, so while he doesn't get into a relationship or fathers any children, one day, who should come to the Tree of Life but a pair of hamerkops, none other than Ona/Kuona(sight) and mother Kulinda(protect), and he does take on a fatherly-uncle type role with Ona, as well as another egret.

Next up is what I like to call the secondary TLG characters category, composed of Tamaa(appetite) the drongo, Mwenzi(partner) the red-billed tickbird, and the yellow wagtail, featured in "Beshte and the Hippo Lanes", Nyuni(the bee). For all my gripes with TLG's design and story choices, I will say that their bird designs are pretty consistently decent across the board, even if Tamaa's design resembles the Asian-native greater racket-tailed drongo instead of a more geographically appropriate fork-tailed drongo, as I've portrayed here. I did also notice that there was a female yellow wagtail, so I made her Nyuni mate and her name is Mbila(millet). Also Bupu and Kifaru make very small cameos here.

I was really surprised to find out TLK doesn't have a lot of flamingo characters. Sure they appear in quite a few comics and stories, though counting named characters and ones we see in TLG, mentioned in the TLK wiki no less, that gives us about three actual characters. So I added on two more to the ones we got. Also Africa is home to two species of flamingos, the greater and lesser species, which in my research is more just size rather then quality, though the really bright flamingos you think of when seem to be more an American/Caribbean species. Still, considering that flamingos get their pink feather coloring from crustaceans, and the more they eat the more pink they are, I'm just gonna say that the seafood/algae in TLK/G for the most part is extremely rich in carotenoid. You can pry my Barbie pink African flamingo designs from my cold dead hands.

First off are TLG's Flamingo girl 1/Fuari(happy) and Flamingo girl 2/Juisi(juice), named after two of my favorite songs. They're greater flamingos and both of them live in their flamboyance next to Azaad's territory, often becoming his meal. I imagine flamingos, while native to most of Africa where there's water, are an uncommon sight for many, though are very adored for their perky pink plumage and fabulous, flamboyant festivities. For the other flamingo character before we get to the unnamed ones we have Yeye(she). She is leader of the greater flamingos in the Pridelands, specifically at Lake Kidogo. She is also considered a bit overdramatic, as she and her fellow flamingos once nearly declared war on Kiboko and the hippopotamuses for their less kempt nature/appearances, though in fairness Kiboko was being an extra big jerk, though he alone would've made pink morsels out them realistically. I based her design off the ones glaring at Kovu before his exile in TLK2.

The last two flamingos didn't have names, but considering I'm a big fan of flamingos and we definitely needed more, here you go. First off is the one we see from "A Kinglike Hair-do" I've named Sabuni(soap), yet another song I like. While walking down with his vain monkey friend Isimo, Simba and him come across a flock of flamingos, which Isimo argues about how pretty can they really be compared to him and decides to spook them by running through them. Simba then noticed Sabuni, injured and realizes her flock was trying to protect her. Simba calls the rest of the flock back, promising not to harm any of them, and they are able to go back to their injured friend, who eventually recovers. This event would make the flamingos have a more positive outlook towards Simba later on when he set about restoring the Pridelands back after Scar's reign, making them easy support. Later in the comic the flock plus a lemur Simba helped earlier save him from a snake-infested river.

Fataki(fireworks) is the last of the flamingos, and last one named after songs I like. From "Pretty in Pink", he is the only male on this list, and is the leader of a flamboyance of lesser flamingos who take over a small pond in the Oasis during a dry spell, peeving off our Hakuna Matata trio and anyone else hoping to use the pond for cooling off. The trio decide to infiltrate the pond by painting themselves pink with berry juice and gathering fallen flamingo feathers to try and trick the flamingos into allowing them to enter, though the plan fails when they topple into the water and wash away their disguise. However before they can get pecked for their trickery, Pumbaa emerges from the mud the sight of him is so frightening that the flock flees, allowing the trio to cool off in peace. Since then the flock has avoided that specific pond in fear of the 'mud monster' that appeared before them, though still are pretty selfish and vain still.

So at this point you already know my penchant for making these lists increasingly harder for myself. TLG has a long list of bird species that they've shown or used for a line or two, but are never given proper names, just barely a wiki page if they're lucky. The next five characters do have a TLG wiki page yet no specific names. After that, I decided that the other bird designs in TLG were too good to waste, so they will be given a brief mention and name.

Starting off with the unnamed characters which mostly come from "Friends to the End", we have the peacock leader of his flock, now a congo peafowl, Shabiki(fan). Congo peafowl are technically peacocks in Africa, but are much more subdued and don't nearly have as much pizzaz with their tail feathers as your typical Indian variant, and neither are nearly as stunning as the green peafowl... fight me. They've got eyespots all over, not just their tail feathers.

Next we get some waterfowl, starting with the former barnacle geese Mother goose/Ndege(fowl), now an African goose, and her son Jirgi(flight-Hausa) and daughter Gurbi(nest-Hausa) from "Friends to the End". So with barnacle geese, apparently they create nests on high cliffs to avoid predation, however within a few days of hatching goslings must jump off these cliff faces in order to meet their parents who are foraging on the grass below, which is what we learn in TLG, however I have no knowledge of African geese doing the same. However given how rude she was, in my 'verse the chicks did fall off a cliff where their mother had decided to build their nest on top of, and was too prideful to admit she was in the wrong. She later becomes food for Makucha's Army, though her chicks thankfully make it to adulthood relatively unscathed.

Last of the waterfowl is the African black duck from "The Search for Utamu" that Fuli saves her nest from some fighting oryxes. Her name is Bata(duck) and given that her species can have 4–8 eggs at a time, I like to think she named one after Fuli. Their design was pretty nice, though I changed the orange bill/beak to the original's black, though I imagine the reason why they originally had it orange was to help with figuring which part to animate.

Now for the unnamed, background species from TLG. These guys were already enough work to figure out how to make that they'll just get a brief excerpt.

White-throated laughing thrushes: Safisha(tidy). Their colors in the show just seemed to be extremely saturated, so I mellowed them somewhere between their real-life and cartoon counterparts.

Common Kingfishers: Choraji(painting). They're only found in a TLG "Look and Find" book, though still included because... well just look how pretty they are.

Great blue turaco: Mkweli(truthful) and white-crested turaco?: Mchele(rice). Such beautiful blue feathers for the former, absolutely stunning. For the white-crested turacos, for some weird reason in the show they made them... so weird. Like they took a blue-crested turaco and used pastel colors, baby blues and creams.... so I used the real-life design here. Perfectly colorful and serviceable design, I don't know what TLG was planning, though in my book these two are happily married to one another.

Grey-Headed Tanagers: Eji(dew-Yoruba). Another really-saturated cartoon design, though I honestly was doubting whether or not it was a tanager and not a sunbird or superb starling, or even if it was meant to be a variant of the grey-headed bushstrike they've already made. However it did get to a point where looking up species was starting to not be fun, so I conceded in the end, but did mute the colors more.

Grey-Headed Bushshrikes: Pazia(veil). Not much to say, but a really good design overall, for both real-life and TLG.

Southern red bishop: Kivara(clothing). Technically put under the finches wiki page, though the Southern red bishop is actually part of the weaver family, though stunningly beautiful nonetheless.

Peach-faced lovebird: Koro(heart). A cutie patootie, him and Kivara are mates too.

Green bee-eaters: Limu(lemon) and blue-throated bee-eater: Dubaku(look). The blue-throated bee-eater is an Asian species, so it's swapped with a blue-headed/mustached bee-eater here. I also had to work with the green bee-eater design a bit, since it seems TLG based it more off the Asian green bee-eater and not off the African one, which is slightly less flashy then the former.

White-necked ravens: Mlio(crow). It seems a bit weird to put a raven here, though like the peregrine falcon, apparently they too are found all across the world minus Antarctica and weirdly South America too. Hmm, well anyways I think they are very beautiful.

Lastly is Binti the hornbill, a yellow-billed oxpecker here and you can read more about her story here, as well as why this deleted love interest for Zazu is apparently a tickbird and not a hornbill. I did give her a slight redesign and that will apply to all the unnamed chicks which I did not bother to redo here, but I feel like she has a good design for the last character on this sheet.

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A new variant has been added!

Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus remifer) © Nicolas Huet & Jean-Gabriel Prêtre

It hatches from black, bouncy, flat, glossy, harsh, high, impressive, juvenile, long, mid, nasal, open, other, overall, red, tropical, variable, and vocal eggs.

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Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo

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Elio | Winter Fae

Elio’s family hails from the Winter Courts where they are lesser vessels to the Queen. His family is unusually large for their status and he, the youngest. However, it is fair to say that Elio’s relation to his family is difficult. Though he regularly speaks to his mother, one cannot say it is with love and joy.

Elio has dedicated himself to his role with a frigid stoicism. He had been a Handler, given his efficiency and quick thinking. However, in an odd turn of events, he was promoted to Dalius de Montagnsson’s assistant- a role vacant previously given de Montagnsson’s staunch opinion that an assistant was not required. Now, Elio spends his days as a secretary, which he tackles with the same dedication he did his Handler duties, if not with a bit more judgement in his cold stares.

Personality: He keeps his distance from most people, easily fitting into the background where he is overlooked. He isn’t a leader, though if this is by choice or not is to be seen. When he speaks it is with either reserved politenss or judgemental disdain.Elio is a workaholic, spending almost all his time at his job and striving for perfection. What he does in his free time, if he ever has any, is a mystery given how he tends to be alone when he can.

Appearance: A tall fae at 5'7| 170 cm, though it rarely has ever helped him. He has fluffy lavender hair, cut aysemetrically, and pale blue skin with a dash of freckles across his cheeks. The fae's eyes are a stormy grey, pale against his black sclera, something all winter fae have. He has fluttering soft purple wings, each with a tail similar to a racket-tailed drongo. His circular runes glow a soft white, appearing along his neck, shoulders, and thighs. Don't tell anybody, but he also requires glasses, and he hates it. 

Likes: Comfy Sweaters, Coffee, Cooking, Cats, History, Languages

Dislikes: Mornings, Orange (color), Physical Labor, Loud People

Tricks:

Speed Reading: Elio is able to read at an exceptional rate without losing comprehension or memory of what he had read.

Secret: Elio hates sweet food and, while he loves to share food has to actually be careful given how he’ll spice it.

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A Greater Racket Tailed Drongo is named so because of the two racket like streamer at the end of its long notched tail. Distinguished from their Lesser Racket Tail cousins by the crest on their heads. They are also peculiar because of the ease with which they form mixed species flocks. They are found widely in the forests of India and can be seen perched on open tree branches. They have a wide variety of calls, some mimicking the birds they hang out with. Greater Racket Tailed Drongo Satpura, India Jan 2021 #birds #bird #birdsofinstagram #birdsofindia #birdphotography #jungle #madhyapradesh #incredibleindia #travelblogger (at Satpura Tiger Reserve) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJqmYIMLFz/?igshid=1rhslj1ocdume

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Experience bird watching in North India as it offers a variety of exotic birds like Black-chinned babbler, Chestnut-crowned laughing thrush, Lesser racket-tailed drongo, Koklass pheasant, etc. Enrich your travels and try your hand at bird watching in the Classic North India birding tours ranging from 5 days to 21 days depending upon your interest

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Pench National Park harbours more than 210 species including several migratory ones. Some of them are peafowl, junglefowl, crow pheasant, crimson-breasted barbet, red-vented bulbul, racket-tailed drongo, Indian roller, magpie robin, lesser whistling teal, pintail, shoveller, egret and herons, minivet, oriole, wagtail, munia, myna, waterfowl and blue kingfisher and list goes on.

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Pench National Park

Pench National Park

Pench National Park is situated in Chhindwara and Seoni districts of Madhya Pradesh. The name is derived from the Pench River, which flows through this park from north to south dividing it into almost equal divisions. This famous Pench National Park is also well known for rafting. This park contains a number of species, from wild guars to tigers, monkeys, deer, leopard etc. There are two entry gates for the tourist; one is known as Turiya and other one as Karmajhiri.

Park history

Pench National Park was stated as a sanctuary in 1977, yet in 1983, it evoked to the status of the National Park. Later in the year 1992, it was perceived as Pench Tiger Reserve, which covers 758 sq. km of area. It also covers an area of292.85 sq. Km from the centre zone, and the Mowgli Pench Wildlife Sanctuary covers 118.30 sq. km of area. Pench National Park has a mind blowing history. The portrayal of its radiance and characteristic riches happens in Ain-I-Akbari (Constitution of Akbar), which was a sixteenth century report composed by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (the Emperor Akbar's vizier), recording the Akbar's organization realm. Pench has motivated Rudyard Kipling to compose the well known novel 'The Jungle Book'. Most importantly, third part of BBC’s ‘Spy in the Jungle' was likewise shot in Pench National Park, which was based upon the evolving of 4 tigers.

Wildlife in Park

Pench National Park is extremely rich in fauna and it's a dwelling place for an expansive number of imperilled species. The most prevailing predator is Tiger and there are around 25 of them in these prey-rich forests. There are some different predators like Dhol (Indian Wild Dog), Panther, Hyena, Wolf, and Jackal. Some prey species observed in the park are Sambhar, Chital, Gaur, Muntjac, Langur, Wild Hog, and Rhesus Macaques. Regularly observed species are group of deer. There are more than 170 types of birds involving different transient ones like Peafowl, Junglefowl, Red-Vented Bulbul, Crimson Breasted Barbet, Magpie Robin, lesser whistling Teal, racket-tailed Drongo, egret, Pintail, Shoveler, Herons to give some examples. According to the examination in a single year, 25 tigers were found under the umbrella of the National park alongside 39 well evolved creatures, 13 reptiles, and 3 amphibians. Beside well evolved creatures and other land-based vegetation and fauna, the park is additionally rich in bird life. According to the assessment of the natural life specialists, 210 types of birds were seen in this place like Munias, Barbets, Minivets Orioles, Bulbul, Waterfowls, Wagtails, Mynas, and Blue Kingfishers.

Flora in the Park

The park is blessed with rich and verdant woods, spread all through the region of the National Park. Southern dry broadleaf teak woodlands are there, which mix with tropical blended deciduous backwoods. The flora in Pench incorporates various types of bushes, climbers and tress. It has some exceptional assortments of herbs with restorative properties. This magnificent stretch of land gives shelter to over 285 resident and migratory birds. With its majestic tigers and various other animals, birds your whole experience will be a very thrilling one like watching Mowgli battle Sher khan. Now, it is needless to say that if you are a true blue nature enthusiast, you have already started planning for this next destination of yours. Read the full article

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In the shadows Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus remifer) Maheshkhan, Uttarakhand #birding #birdingphotography #mountainlife #mountainbirds #jungle #naturereserve #silhouette (at Uttarakhand)

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Pench Tiger Reserve Safari

Pench National Park is in Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh in India. It is famous Tiger Reserve located in India. Explore information  about wildlife, safari timings, accommodations and tourist attractions. Pench National Park is very rich in fauna and it’s an abode to a large number of endangered species. The most dominant predator is Tiger and there are around 25 of them in these prey-rich woodlands. There are more than 170 species of birds comprising various migratory ones like peafowl, crow pheasant, junglefowl, red-vented bulbul, crimson-breasted barbet, magpie robin, lesser whistling teal, racket-tailed drongo, egret, pintail, shoveler, herons to name a few.

Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR)’ is spread over 785 sq. km. It was awarded the ‘Best Maintained Park Award’ in 2011. The most dominant predator is Tiger and there are around 25 of them in these prey-rich woodlands. Pench National park is a paradise for ‘bird watchers’ with 285 species. ‘Turia Gate’ (2 km), ‘Khursapar’ (10 km), ‘Rukkhad’ (10 km), ‘Sillari Gate’ (35 km) and night safari in Khawasa (8 km) provide great options for jungle safari.

Tathastu is a resort at Pench Tiger Reserve, 90 Kms from Nagpur, Madhya Pradesh, Central India. It has 5 types of unique accommodations - Tree House, Cave Room, Tents, Villas and Mud House with 2 & 3 Bedrooms. It is determined to give its guest the best in Pench. Wildlife Safaris, Indoor Swimming Pool, Night Trails, Mice destinations, events, Family Event, Resort for Conference, Activities in Pench, MICE Meeting, Conference hall, Jungle Safari, Spa and wellness centre Customized Services are some of the USPs. It is delighted to has been rated as the best hotels and resorts in Pench by Trip Advisor and Facebook.

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#racket_tailed_drongo The greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips. They are placed along with other drongos in the family Dicruridae. They are conspicuous in the forest habitats often perching in the open and by attracting attention with a wide range of loud calls that include perfect imitations of many other birds. One hypothesis suggested is that these vocal imitations may help in the formation of mixed-species foraging flocks, a feature seen in forest bird communities where many insect feeders forage together. These drongos will sometimes steal insect prey caught or disturbed by other foragers in the flock and another ideas is that vocal mimicry helps them in diverting the attention of smaller birds to aid their piracy. They are diurnal but are active well before dawn and late at dusk. Owing to their widespread distribution and distinctive regional variation, they have become iconic examples of speciation by isolation and genetic drift. In most of its range in Asia, this is the largest of the drongo species and is readily identifiable by the distinctive tail rackets and the crest of curled feather that begin in front of the face above the beak and along the crown to varying extents according to the subspecies. The tail with twirled rackets is distinctive and in flight it can appear as if two large bees were chasing a black bird. In the eastern Himalayas the species can be confused with the lesser racket-tailed drongo, however the latter has flat rackets with the crest nearly absent. This widespread species includes populations that have distinct variations and several subspecies have been named. The nominate form is found in southern India, mainly in forested areas of the Western Ghats and the adjoining hill forests of peninsular India. The subspecies in Sri Lanka is ceylonicus and is similar to the nominate form but slightly smaller. The subspecies found along the Himalayas is grandis and is the largest and has long glossy neck hackles. #wikipedia

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Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo. Pen on rice paper - drawn non-stop for 3.5hrs

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🎤 Arnoud B. van den Berg 📷 Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok

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(via 500px / Photo "Lesser racquet-tailed Drongo with insect" by Allan Seah)