{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{distinguish|Dicrurus paradiseus}} {{Speciesbox | name = Paradise drongo | image = Dicranostreptus megarhynchus - The Birds of New Guinea (cropped).jpg | image_caption= Illustration by John Gould and W. Hart | status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Dicrurus megarhynchus'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T22706999A94102176 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706999A94102176.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Dicrurus | species = megarhynchus | authority = (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) | synonyms = }}
The '''paradise drongo''' or '''ribbon-tailed drongo''' ('''''Dicrurus megarhynchus''''') is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae. It is endemic to New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. With a total length of {{convert|51|to|63|cm|in|abbr=on}} and body mass of {{convert|130|g|oz|abbr=on}}, this may be the largest species of drongo.<ref>Rocamora, G. and D. Yeatman-Berthelot (2020). ''Ribbon-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus megarhynchus)'', version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA.</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses |edition=2nd |editor-first=John B. Jr. |editor-last=Dunning |publisher=CRC Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-4200-6444-5}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== The paradise drongo was described by the French zoologists Jean Quoy and Joseph Gaimard in 1832 from a specimen that they believed had been collected in Dorey (now Manokwari) in New Guinea. They coined the binomial name, ''Edolius megarhynchus''.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Quoy | first1=Jean | author1-link=Jean René Constant Quoy | last2=Gaimard | first2=Joseph Paul | author2-link=Joseph Paul Gaimard | editor-last=Dumont d'Urville | editor-first=Jules | editor-link=Jules Dumont d'Urville | year=1830 | title=Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829: Zoologie | volume=1 | language=fr | location=Paris | publisher=J. Tastu | pages=184–185 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064240 }}</ref>{{efn|Although the ornithological part of the ''Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe'' has 1830 on the title page it was not published until 1832.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Mlíkovský | first=Jiří | year=2012 | title=The dating of the ornithological part of Quoy and Gaimard's "''Voyage de l'Astrolabe''"| journal=Zoological Bibliography | volume=2 | issue=2&3 | pages=59–69 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54038142 }}</ref>}} The English zoologist Philip Sclater pointed out in 1877 that the location reported by Quoy and Gaimard was probably an error. Specimens had been collected from New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago but none had been obtained from New Guinea.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Sclater | first=Philip | author-link=Philip Sclater | year=1877 | title=On the birds collected by Mr. George Brown, C.M.Z.S., on Duke-of-York Island, and on the adjoining parts of New Ireland and New Britain | journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London | volume=1877:Jan.-Apr. | pages=96–114 [101] | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28510667 }}</ref> The type locality is now designated as Port Praslin near the southern point of New Ireland.<ref>{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1962 | title=Check-list of birds of the world | volume=15 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=153 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14485526 }}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/grzimek_birds/Dicruridae/Dicrurus_megarhynchus.jpg/view.html Image at ADW]
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paradise drongo Category:Birds of New Ireland Province paradise drongo Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea
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