Glossy-backed drongo
The glossy-backed drongo is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae. It occurs in sub-Saharan Africa from south Mauritania and Senegambia across to Somalia and northern Kenya.
The glossy-backed drongo was described by the German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823 from a specimen obtained in Senegambia. He coined the binomial name Muscicapa divaricata. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the fork-tailed drongo but it is now considered as a separate species based on the phylogenetic relationships determined in a molecular study published in 2018.
There are two subspecies:
- D. d. divaricatus – Senegambia and south Mauritania to southwest Chad
- D. d. lugubris – south Chad to Eritrea, Ethiopia, north Kenya, and north Somalia
