Caciques
Caique Species Photo Gallery
The caciques, are passerine birds in the New World blackbird family.
Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous)
The Red-rumped Cacique is distributed throughout most of the Amazon and Orinoco Basins and into the Guianas. There is a disjunct population in eastern Brazil, Paraguay and adjacent Argentina.
Red-rumped Cacique Cacicus haemorrhous
Described by: Linnaeus (1766)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Cacique, Yellow-rumped Cacicus cela Found: South America
Photographed by: Dick Daniels and Sandy Cole at the North Carolina Zoo
Genus Psarocolius ...
Cacicus cela (Yellow-rumped Cacique)
Calcarius lapponicus (Lapland Bunting)
Cardinalis cardinalis (Northern Cardinal)
Carduelis cannabina (Linnet)
Carduelis carduelis (Goldfinch)
Carduelis chloris (European Greenfinch) ...
Toucan) , Yellow-ridged Toucan (formerly Channel-billed),Golden-colared Toucanet, Brown-mandible Aracari, Curl-crested Araceri , Masked Tanager, Pale-vented Pigeon, Cobalt-wing Parrot, Mealy Parrot, Red-throated Caracara, Yellow-rumped Cacique, ...
If starvation does not kill the other birds, in some species the cowbird will use its large size to push the other chicks out of the nest. The Giant Cowbird does not appear to harm its host oropendola or cacique chicks.
 See also: Toucan, Blackbird, Cattle, Cowbird, Swallow
  
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