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[[Image:Yellow-rumped_Cacique.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by juninho<br />Photo taken: Botanical Gardens, Georgetown, Guyana.]] | [[Image:Yellow-rumped_Cacique.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by juninho<br />Photo taken: Botanical Gardens, Georgetown, Guyana.]] | ||
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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
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| + | 23-28cm. Black plumage, bright yellow rump, tail base, lower belly and wing epaulets, long tail, blue eyes, and pale yellow pointed bill. Female is smaller and duller black than the male; juvenile bird resembles the female, and has dark eyes and a brown bill base. | ||
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| + | ==Distribution== | ||
| + | [[Panama]] and [[Trinidad]] south to [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]] and central [[Brazil]]. | ||
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| + | ==Taxonomy== | ||
| + | There are three subspecies: | ||
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| + | * ''C. c. cela'' - east of the Andes from the Santa Marta coast of Colombia to central Bolivia and eastern Brazil | ||
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| + | *''C. c. vitellinus'' - Panama Canal Zone to the base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the central Magdalena Valley of Colombia | ||
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| + | *''C. c. flavicrissus'' - Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador to Tumbes Province, Peru. | ||
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==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
| + | Open woodland or cultivation with large trees. | ||
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==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
| + | It is a colonial breeder, with up to 100 bag-shaped nests in a tree, which usually also contains an active wasp nest. The females build the nests, incubate, and care for the young. Each nest is 30–45 cm long and widens at the base, and is suspended from the end of a branch. 2 dark-blotched pale blue or white eggs are laid and are incubated for 13 or 14 days. The young fledge in 34 to 40 days, usually only one per nest. | ||
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| + | The diet includes large insects and fruit. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Cacicus+cela}} | {{GSearch|Cacicus+cela}} | ||
[[Category:Birds]] | [[Category:Birds]] | ||
Revision as of 15:56, 29 September 2008
- Cacicus cela
Identification
23-28cm. Black plumage, bright yellow rump, tail base, lower belly and wing epaulets, long tail, blue eyes, and pale yellow pointed bill. Female is smaller and duller black than the male; juvenile bird resembles the female, and has dark eyes and a brown bill base.
Distribution
Panama and Trinidad south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil.
Taxonomy
There are three subspecies:
- C. c. cela - east of the Andes from the Santa Marta coast of Colombia to central Bolivia and eastern Brazil
- C. c. vitellinus - Panama Canal Zone to the base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the central Magdalena Valley of Colombia
- C. c. flavicrissus - Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador to Tumbes Province, Peru.
Habitat
Open woodland or cultivation with large trees.
Behaviour
It is a colonial breeder, with up to 100 bag-shaped nests in a tree, which usually also contains an active wasp nest. The females build the nests, incubate, and care for the young. Each nest is 30–45 cm long and widens at the base, and is suspended from the end of a branch. 2 dark-blotched pale blue or white eggs are laid and are incubated for 13 or 14 days. The young fledge in 34 to 40 days, usually only one per nest.
The diet includes large insects and fruit.
