Paradise drongo

The paradise drongo or ribbon-tailed drongo is a species of bird in the family Dicruridae. It is endemic to New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. With a total length of and body mass of, this may be the largest species of drongo.

Taxonomy

The paradise drongo was described by the French zoologists Jean Quoy and Joseph Gaimard in 1832 from a specimen that they believed had been collected in Dorey in New Guinea. They coined the binomial name, Edolius megarhynchus. The English zoologist Philip Sclater pointed out in 1877 that the location reported by Quoy and Gaimard was probably an error. Specimens had been collected from New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago but none had been obtained from New Guinea. The type locality is now designated as Port Praslin near the southern point of New Ireland.