Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus) [XC245236]
by John V. Moore from Bosque El Algarrobo, Vereda San Pedro, Tamara, Casanare, Colombia (song)
Crested Oropendola (Psarocolius decumanus) [XC549985]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Finca San Jorge, Morelia\/Caquet\u00e1, Colombia (song)
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 Paraná and Sío Paulo).
insularis (Dalmas, 1900) - Trinidad and Tobago.
maculosus (Chapman, 1920) - Eastern Peru to Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina.