Fanti drongo
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Dicrurus atactus

The Fanti drongo (Dicrurus atactus ) is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae.It is found in sub-Sahara Africa from Sierra Leone to southwestern Nigeria.

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The Fanti drongo was described by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser in 1899 from a specimen collected in the Fanti district of Ghana. He considered it as a subspecies of the velvet-mantled drongo (Dicrurus modestus ) and introduced the trinomial name Dicrurus modestus atactus. The specific epithet atactus is from the Ancient Greek ατακτος ataktos "disorderly" or "lawless". Based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018, it is now treated as a separate species.

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References

1. Fanti drongo Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanti_drongo
2. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/522382

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