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The Ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus) is a bird found in India and Thailand. Forests and gardens across eastern and Southeast Asia. It eats insects and other small invertebrates, small mammals and birds and reptiles and frogs. The IUCN Red List lists it as Least Concern.

🏡 Where the Ashy drongo lives

Forests and gardens across eastern and Southeast Asia.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🐛 Insects & bugs80%
• 🐭 Mammals & birds10%
• 🦎 Reptiles & frogs10%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

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Recorded by Tim Dinh / Annambirding (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC1177455. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Ashy drongo

Where does the Ashy drongo live?

The Ashy drongo lives in India and Thailand. Forests and gardens across eastern and Southeast Asia.

What does the Ashy drongo eat?

insects and other small invertebrates (about 80%), small mammals and birds (about 10%), reptiles and frogs (about 10%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Ashy drongo endangered?

There are plenty of these birds. Its IUCN Red List category is Least Concern.

More birds from Asia

• White-winged magpie
• Mauritius olive white-eye
• Javan white-eye
• Rota white-eye
• Negros striped babbler
• Speckled reed warbler

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.