Bold, medium-sized black, demonstrative and vociferous passerines. they ahve hooked and notched bills with rictal and nasal bristels as sensory organs around the bill and mostrils.
They are usually solitairy and are known for harrasing or attacking people or raptors that are in their terrtories. They are conspicuous in opportunisticly following herbivores in an effort to catch prey that is flushed by these animals as they move and feed. They are exclusively carnivorous, taking mostly invertebrates and small vertebrates that are hawked in the air or on the ground from a conspicuous perch. They will kleptomanise other species.
Drongos are accomplished voice mimics of a number of other bird species. They will often rain-bathe or foliage-bathe, or plunge-dive into water to bathe.
Monogamous and strongly territorial, nest is shallow cup suspended from a horizontal forked terminal branchlet and made of pliable plant stems, petioles, rootlets, spider web etc. Clutch is 3 eggs, white or buffy ground colour overlaid with speckles and blotches. Chicks hatch synchronously and are brooded and fed by both parents.
Fork-tailed drongo is the only known host for parasitism by the African cuckoo and is also sometimes targeted by Jacobin cuckoo.

Dicrurus = two-tailed i.e. forked

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