Yellow-rumped Cacique - Cacicus cela
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The Yellow-rumped Cacique is found in northern South America. There are three subspecies of this bird.
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.
11/14/2012 - Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah
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11/14/2012 - Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Diet: Their diet consists of large insects and fruit.
Courtship:
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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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.
Plumage/Molt: Probably molt annually.
Migration: Not migratory.
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Bibliography:
- http://en.wikipedia.org The Free Encyclopedia, Accessed June, 2013
- Ridgely, Roberts S. and Tudor, Guy, Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America: The Passerines,University of Texas Press, 2009