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What the Saffron-cowled Blackbird sounds like
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The saffron-cowled blackbird averages 20 cm (7.9 in) long. Males weigh an average of 42.5 g (1.5 oz) and females average 39.3 g (1.4 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have black lores and a black hindcrown, nape, back, and tail. The rest of their head, their rump, and most of their underparts are yellow with a tinge of orange on the forehead and breast. Their undertail coverts are black with yellow tips and their thighs are black. Their wings are mostly black with yellow marginal and lesser upperwing coverts that form an epaulet. Voice: Both sexes of the saffron-cowled blackbird sing. The song is "brief and unmusical, starts with short whistled or warbled notes, ends with rasping kluijjjjjj". The species' most common call is chep.
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When to see the Saffron-cowled Blackbird
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Saffron-cowled Blackbird
The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Argentina.
About the Saffron-cowled Blackbird
The saffron-cowled blackbird is an Endangered species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
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Easily confused with
St. Lucia OrioleIcterus laudabilisVoice: The song of the St. Lucia orioles is a series, composed of two second long varied whistles played in a sequence.
Colombian Mountain GrackleMacroagelaius subalarisThe Colombian mountain grackle is 27 to 30 cm (11 to 12 in) long.
Baudo OropendolaPsarocolius cassiniMale Baudo oropendolas are about 46 cm (18 in) long and females about 39.5 cm (16 in).
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