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Green Oropendola - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by Stanley Jones
Napo Wildlife Center, Yasuni National Park, Orellna Province, Ecuador, January 2016
Psarocolius viridis

Identification

48·5 cm (19 in)
Bright olive-yellow with belly, rump and undertail coverts maroon chestnut. The bill is pale greenish-yellow with an orange-red tip. The eye is pale blue.

Distribution

Displaying male
Photo by Stanley Jones
Napo Wildlife Center, Yasuni National Park, Orellna Province, Ecuador, January 2015

South America: found in the Guianas and southern Venezuela to north-eastern Peru and Amazonian Brazil.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Tall humid forests.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of insects.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)

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