We observed that certain upperstory bird species, such as dollarbirds, minivets, and parakeets tended to be concentrated at the forest edge due to the proximity of different habitats (i.e., vegetation structure and floristic composition), whereas others (i.e., woodpeckers, barbets, broadbills, pigeons, and
drongos) were concentrated in the interior.
If
drongos faked one alarm too often, victims could learn to ignore it, says Tom Flower of the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Analysis of crop contents of 11 Black
drongos in samples taken on 8th June 2006.
It lacked, for example, the glossy black underparts of that species and the head shape and jizz did not quite match my recollection of the many Black
Drongos I had seen previously in Asia.
Musical anarchists such as The Damned, Sham 69, UK Subs, Angelic Upstarts, Anti-Nowhere League, Conflict, The Meteors, Peter And The Test Tube Babies played alongside new bands like The Restarts, Goldb-lade and the Birmingham-based
Drongos For Europe.
Possible factors include degradation or loss of habitat due to development, agricultural activities, and naturally occurring events such as typhoons; predation by rats and black
drongos (an introduced bird species from Taiwan); and use of pesticides.
That was when
drongos voted Kate Lawler to win the whole thing.
As I hosed the sick out of the Gents and sponged sprog from stubborn lavatory lids and had to fetch lunch orders for men without wit of any kind, I quite naturally followed the spoken satire of
drongos who had nothing to lose but their boredom.
nITV1 Wales is aiming to achieve what many
drongos believe is impossible.
Achieving mid-table unrespectability is the Hand and Heart, consistently offering a fine, spiky selection of loud guitars and attitude and keeping up the good work this Saturday with a four band line-up of
Drongos For Europe, Sister Automatic, Smoke Like A Fish and Four Foot Fingers.
I've seen tickbirds and fork-tailed
drongos haunt game animals in Africa (one
drongo in Botswana seemed to think our hunting car was an oddly shaped elephant and followed us for days) and several kinds of American birds may catch insects stirred up by the hooves of grazing cattle.
Drongos; Corvids; Birds of Paradise; Woodswallows; Bellmagpies; Mudnest Builders; Oras; Old World Orioles; Cuckoo Shrikes; Leafbirds and Fairy Bluebirds; Vireos; Shrikes; Bush Shrikes; Vangas; Waxwings; Palmchat; Dipper; Thrushes; Mockingbirds and Thrashers; Starlings; Old World Flycatchers; Nuthatches.