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The Yellow-rumped Cacique is found in northern South America.
There are three subspecies of this bird.
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The male is mostly black with a yellow rump, tail base, lower belly and
wing 'epaulets'.
The eyes are blue and the bill is pointed and a pale yellow.
The female is similar but duller.
Juveniles resemble the female but the eyes are dark and the bill base is
brown.
They are found in large noisy flocks.
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:Diet:
Their diet consists of large insects and fruit.
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:Courtship:
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:Nesting:
Yellow-rumped Caciques are considered colonial nesters and up to 100 nests
will be located in a tree.
The females build the bag-shaped nests which are suspended from the end
of a branch and are usually built close to a wasp nests.
(The wasps may help protect the fledglings from mites which can kill
the fledglings.)
The female usually lays two dark-blotched pale blue or white eggs and
does all the incubation and feeding of the hatchlings.
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:Habitat and Range:
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:Vocalization:
The Yellow-rumped Cacique males produce songs which are a mixture
of fluting notes with cackles, wheezes and in the eastern range mimicry.
The colony will also produce varied calls which can be heard from a
considerable distance.
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:Plumage/Molt:
Probably molt annually.
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:Migration:
Not migratory.
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:Tongue/feet:
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:Bibliography:
w4;June, 2013
b30
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