Chestnut-headed oropendola
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| Chestnut-headed oropendola | |
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| At Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Icteridae |
| Genus: | Psarocolius |
| Species: | P. wagleri
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| Binomial name | |
| Psarocolius wagleri (Gray, GR, 1844)
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| Range of P. wagleri | |
| Synonyms | |
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Psarocolius waglerii (lapsus) | |
The chestnut-headed oropendola (Psarocolius wagleri) is a
Description
The male is 35 cm (14 in) long and weighs 225 g (7.9 oz); the smaller female is 28 cm (11 in) long and weighs 125 g (4.4 oz). The wings are very long. Adult males are mainly black with a chestnut head and rump and a tail which is bright yellow apart from two dark central feathers. The iris is blue and the long bill is whitish. Females are similar, but smaller and duller than males. Young birds are duller than adults and have brown eyes. The populations south of an area around the border of Honduras and Nicaragua are sometimes separated as a subspecies P. w. ridgwayi, but the separation of this form has been questioned.
The distinctive songs of the male include a gurgle followed by a crash guu-guu-PHRRRRTTT. Both sexes have loud chek and chuk calls.
Range and ecology
It is a resident breeder in the
The chestnut-headed oropendola inhabits
and berries.
It is a
Footnotes
- ^ . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Laverde-R., Oscar; Stiles, F. Gary; Múnera-R., Claudia (2005). "Nuevos registros e inventario de la avifauna de la Serranía de las Quinchas, un área importante para la conservación de las aves (AICA) en Colombia" [New records and updated inventory of the avifauna of the Serranía de las Quinchas, an important bird area (IBA) in Colombia] (PDF). Caldasia (in Spanish and English). 27 (2): 247–265.
References
- Jaramillo, Alvaro; Burke, Peter (1999). New World Blackbirds. London: ISBN 0-7136-4333-1.
- Stiles, F. Gary; Skutch, Alexander F. (1989). A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Comstock Publishing Associates. ISBN 0-8014-9600-4.
External links
- "Chestnut-headed oropendola media". Internet Bird Collection.
- Chestnut-headed oropendola photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Chestnut-headed oropendola species account at Neotropical Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Audio recordings of Chestnut-headed oropendola on Xeno-canto.