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ForestDomed nestMedium · 85 g
What the Yellow-rumped Cacique sounds like
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The male is on average 28 centimetres (11 in) long and weighs about 104 grams (3.7 oz), with the female 23 centimetres (9.1 in) long and weighing approximately 60 grams (2.1 oz). The yellow-rumped cacique is a slim bird, with a long tail, blue eyes, and a pale yellow pointed bill. It has mainly black plumage, apart from a bright yellow rump, tail base, lower belly and wing "epaulets". The female is duller black than the male, and the juvenile bird resembles the female, but has dark eyes and a brown bill base.
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When to see the Yellow-rumped Cacique
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Yellow-rumped Cacique
The map shades 11 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 United States.
About the Yellow-rumped Cacique
The yellow-rumped cacique is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. It breeds in much of northern South America from Panama and Trinidad south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil. However, they have been sighted as far north as Nayarit state in Mexico.
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Easily confused with
Scarlet-rumped CaciqueCacicus uropygialisThe scarlet-rumped cacique is sexually dimorphic like many Icteridae, though it mainly concerns size in this species.
Red-rumped CaciqueCacicus haemorrhousMale red-rumped caciques average 29 cm (11 in) long and 96.5 g (3.4 oz).
Solitary CaciqueCacicus solitariusThe male solitary cacique has a length of about 27 cm (10.6 in) and the female 23 cm (9.1 in).
Side by side: Scarlet-rumped Cacique vs Yellow-rumped Cacique · Red-rumped Cacique vs Yellow-rumped Cacique · Solitary Cacique vs Yellow-rumped Cacique
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