More on the Drongo - India (1 Viewer)

[rylirk]

Right, I'm down to the last bird on my list that I have some level of concern about, and it's one of the Drongos. All photos from January and early Feb 2019 I did post a couple of these before but I have since found a lot more photos of the bird in question and another that I had written down as the same species, and if I could get some help on these than I can finally be done with my list cleansing

1. Pune. I had this down as Ashy Drongo on the list based on the lack of any kind of rictal spot, but I am concerned by the lack of a striking red eye (there is a bit of red in the eye but nothing like the photos I've seen of the species. I wondered if the young of some other drongo (black maybe?) could have the lack of rictal spot and the slightly-paler-than-black chest that this does?
2. The same bird as 1.
3. Pune. A different individual to 1 & 2, but another one I had listed as Ashy Drongo. FWIW it looks like the only reasonable candidates in Pune would be Black (which were definitely present I saw multiple that I'm more than happy to ID as Black), Ashy and White-Bellied.
4. Same individual as 3.

 

[THE_FERN]

I'm guessing all ashy. Get the point about the red eye, but here's an ebird headline image which is +/- identical to your first 2:

ML78724081 - Ashy Drongo - Macaulay Library

Macaulay Library ML78724081; © Sanjay Malik; Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, India

macaulaylibrary.org

The whitish marks on the undertail coverts give pause for 3/4 but there's some indication of that in the Macauley Ashy pics. Surely none of these are white-bellied...

 

[rylirk]

No I don't believe I saw any White-Bellied in Pune, I was just listing them as one of the drongos present in the Pune area Thanks!