Red-rumped Cacique - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Fritz73
Porto Seguro, Brazil, 9 September 2017

Cacicus haemorrhous

Identification

Photo by tf1044x
Argentina, 2002

Male 29 cm (11½ in); female 25·2 cm (10 in)
Male

• Glossy black overall plumage
• Bright red lower back and rump
• White bill
• Pale blue iris

Distribution

South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• C. h. haemorrhous:

• South East Colombia to eastern Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and northern Amazonian Brazil

• C. h. affinis:

• Paraguay to eastern and southern Brazil and north-eastern Argentina

Habitat

Moist lowland primary and secondary forests, clearings and forest edges, plantations within forests and swamps.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of insects, arthropods, small vertebrates, fruits and wild berries.

Breeding

Usually breeding in colonies.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/020E6199]. Retrieved 25 July 2021
3. Fraga, R. (2020). Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.rercac1.01

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Red-rumped Cacique. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Red-rumped_Cacique

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