Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus)

Family
Icteridae (New World Blackbirds)

Size
30 - 48 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Pallas, 1769)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 2,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (60)...)

Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus) [XC461496]
by Rosendo Manuel Fraga from Fitzcarrald, Man\u00fa Province, Madre de Dios, Peru (call)

Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus) [XC424590]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Finca Paraiso del Cocora, Ibagu\u00e9, Tolima, Colombia (call)

Subspecies
Relationships uncertain. Somewhat isolated from other members of genus. Birds from south of R Amazon sometimes treated as subspecies maculosus (described from Yungas of Cochabamba, in Bolivia), but DNA data do not support this, showing only a certain distinctiveness for Andean populations.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

melanterus (Todd, 1917) - Southern Costa Rica, Panama, and northern and western Colombia (west of eastern Andes).
decumanus (Pallas, 1769) - Colombia (east of Andes), Venezuela and the Guianas, southern on eastern slope of Andes and southern across Amazonia to northern and eastern Bolivia, north-western and north-eastern Argentina (south to Jujuy and Salta and, in east, to Formosa and Corrientes) and eastern Brazil (south to northern and western Paran� and S�o Paulo).
insularis (Dalmas, 1900) - Trinidad and Tobago.
maculosus (Chapman, 1920) - Eastern Peru to Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina.

References
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Files:

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