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 LC    Yellow-winged Cacique* Id (Atlas):
    Cassiculus melanicterus

Description (10)
Image of Yellow-winged Cacique
 

Other Names (World)
Yellow-winged Cacique, Crested Cacique, Mexican Cacique

Family
Icteridae (New World Blackbirds)

Size
30 - 30.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1825)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, lowland dry shrubland. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)
Guatemala, Mexico.

Western Mexico from Sonora southern along Pacific slope to Chiapas, extending inland along Balsas drainage to south-western México; also southern Guatemala and El Salvador.
 
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (35)...)

 
Mexican Cacique (Cassiculus melanicterus) [XC351584]
     by Frank Lambert from La Bajada, San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico (call)

 
Mexican Cacique (melanicterus) [XC497366]
     by Richard E. Webster from Panuco Road, Sinaloa, Mexico (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Often placed in genus Cacicus, but preliminary mitochondrial DNA data suggest an ancestral position within the cacique - oropendola clade. Is a rather distinctive species, geographically isolated from other caciques, with habitat preferences somewhat different from those of latter, and with nest resembling those of oropendolas. For all those reasons, placement in its own monotypic genus seems appropriate.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Yellow-winged Cacique (Cassiculus melanicterus) - 10 files


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