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Brosset, A.; Erard, C. 1986. Les oiseaux des régions forestières du nord-est du Gabon. Société Nationale de Protection de la Nature, Paris.
del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Christie, D. 2009. Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 14: Bush-shrikes to Old World Sparrows. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
eBird. 2023. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, New York. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: http://www.ebird.org.
Fishpool, L.D., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. and Dowsett, R.J. 2021. The case for splitting the Square-tailed Drongo Dicrurus ludwigii: a review of the phenetic evidence. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141(3): 335-356.
Fry, C.H., Keith, S. and Urban, E.K. 2000. The birds of Africa Vol. VI. Academic Press, London.
Fuchs, J., Douno, M., Bowie, R.C.K. and Fjeldså, J. 2018. Taxonomic revision of the Square-tailed Drongo species complex (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) with a description of a new species from western Africa. Zootaxa 4438: 105–127.
Fuchs, J., Fjeldså, J. and Bowie, R.C.K. 2017. Diversification across major biogeographic breaks in the African Shining/Square-tailed Drongos complex (Passeriformes: Dicruridae). Zool. Scripta 46: 27–41.
GBIF.org. 2023. GBIF Occurrence Download (26 July 2023): Dicrurus sharpei. Available at: https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.8tprvp.
Global Forest Watch. 2023. Tree Cover Loss in area near Nigeria, Africa. Available at: https://www.globalforestwatch.org.. (Accessed: Accessed on 03/08/2023).
Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International. 2022. Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 7. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v7_Dec22.zip.
IUCN. 2023. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 07 December 2023).
Rocamora, G. and Yeatman-Berthelot, D. 2020. Common Square-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus ludwigii), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (editors S.M. Billerman, B.K. Keeney, P.G. Rodewald, and T.S. Schulenberg). Ithaca, NY, USA. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.cstdro1.01.
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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2025) Species factsheet: Sharpe's Drongo Dicrurus sharpei. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/sharpes-drongo-dicrurus-sharpei on 23/01/2025.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2025) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/01/2025.