Bird Identification: Southern Black Flycatcher vs Fork-tailed Drongo

[Toko]

Puffy for the sunbird verdict


This one from Crocodile Bridge: FT or SQ Drongo or SB Flycatcher?

[Puff Addy]

Southern Black Flycatcher on the eye alone.

Both drongos have red eyes.

[Toko]

Ja, but the head shape is very much drongo-like and eye colour might be wrong on a photo

[Mel]

Are there any other tale-telling signs to differ a black flycatcher from a drongo, apart from the eye?

I tried to look at the beak... doesn't seem much of a difference.
Then I discovered the brownish feathers on the edge of the wing... but again: seems to be alike in both birds.

Unless they got both species mixed up on the birdpics website.

[Toko]

Flycatcher bill is more slender

This one did not pearch on top of a tree or an outer twig, rather in the middle of the foliage, flycatcher like

[Lisbeth]

Flycatcher bill is more slender

This one did not pearch on top of a tree or an outer twig, rather in the middle of the foliage, flycatcher like

this is the Toko who says, that she is not a birder

[Mel]

Well, that's what I thought as well... that the flycatcher has a more slender beak. But then I found another photo on birdpics and all of a sudden that theory was gone down the drain, cause the bill all of a sudden looked exactly like a drongo's

[Toko]

It is a SB Flycatcher with a drongo head and a drongo bill

[Dewi]

Will these pics help?

[Toko]

No, these ones are easy to Id:

FTD

STD - note the eye colour on the photo, it looks black

SBFC