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title: "Hair-crested Drongo"
description: "Dicrurus hottentottus — Birds. The hair-crested drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus) is an Asian bird of the family Dicruridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/hair-crested-drongo
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Hair-crested Drongo

> Dicrurus hottentottus — Birds. The hair-crested drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus) is an Asian bird of the family Dicruridae.

- Scientific name: *Dicrurus hottentottus*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 3239
- Wikidata: [Q74084](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74084)
- iNaturalist taxon: [8267](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8267)

## Names

- en: Hair-crested Drongo
- de: Haarbuschdrongo
- es: Drongo Crestudo
- fr: Drongo à crinière
- nl: Haarkuifdrongo
- pl: Dziwogon lirosterny

## Countries with the most observations

IN (604), TH (570), HK (522), CN (393), ID (279), MY (111), NP (77), VN (51), TW (50), MO (44), BD (21), KH (17)

## Summary

The hair-crested drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus) is an Asian bird of the family Dicruridae. This species was formerly considered conspecific with Dicrurus bracteatus, for which the name "spangled drongo" – formerly used for both – is now usually reserved.  Some authorities include the Sumatran drongo (D. sumatranus) in D. hottentottus as subspecies.
It is native from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, and Bhutan through Indochina to China, Indonesia, and Brunei. Hair-crested drongos move in small flocks and are very noisy. The "spangled drongo",  Dicrurus bracteatus, is native on the east coast of Australia and its name…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair-crested_drongo

## Photo

![Hair-crested Drongo](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/hair-crested-drongo/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141863045

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/hair-crested-drongo?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).