A glossy blue-black bird, the greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) has a tail with twirled rackets and a crest of curled feathers that begin in front of the face above the beak and along the crown. The greater racquet-tailed drongo has an extensive but not very musical repertoire which includes the sounds of other birds it meets – it can imitate the call of a hawk to alarm the hawk's victims and so steal food from them while they are distracted by the call: an ingenious tactic, which few other birds have learned. Greater racket-tailed drongos are found throughout Southeast Asia, with the nominate bird found in India.
