Dicrurus sharpei
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
Sharpe's drongo (Dicrurus sharpei) is a species of drongo found in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is distributed from southern South Sudan and western Kenya to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Nigeria east of the Niger River and south of the Benue River.
Sharpe's drongo was described in 1879 by the French zoologist Émile Oustalet from a specimen killed at Doume on the Ogooué River in Gabon. He coined the binomial name Dicrurus sharpei. The specific epithet and the English name honours the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe. It was long considered a subspecies of the square-tailed drongo (Dicrurus ludwigii) but a 2018 study of genetic divergences indicated that both were distinct species. It can be physically distinguished from D. ludwigii by the lack of white tips on the axillaries as well as having a dull purplish-blue iridescence rather than the greenish blue-black iridescence of D. ludwigii. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Abuja | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Sharpe's Drongo sighting in Abuja on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 118th most-seen of the 131 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August and October–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Sharpe's Drongo in Abuja on a given day, against under 5% in September and December–July, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sharpe's Drongo sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Abuja, in our data
Abuja is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Sharpe's Drongo sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sharpe's Drongo is recorded against all the birds logged in Abuja (6 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
