Black Drongo - Dicrurus macrocerus

For me, one of the memorable birds of my trip to India. I quote an extract from a book I read whilst at Bandhavgarh - “When Kipling chose Seoni in Central India as the setting for the wolf-boy Mowgli, he knew exactly what he was doing”.

India is surely the land of the Tiger, long may it continue to be so. As the sun slides over the western horizon, the long, gold-edged shadows melt into the soft darkening of dusk. From a tall stand of Sal, the wild laughter of the Mottled Wood Owl rings out.