Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous)

Family
Icteridae (New World Blackbirds)

Size
20 - 29.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (72)...)

Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous) [XC551957]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Forestal Belga (Cruce Caballero), San Pedro, Misiones, Argentina (song)

Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous) [XC243698]
by Aves del NEA from Reserva Ecol\u00f3gica de Guapi A\u00e7u (REGUA), RJ, Brazil (dawn song)

Subspecies
Mitochondrial DNA data indicate rather distant relationship with Yellow-rumped Cacique (Cacicus cela).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

haemorrhous (Linnaeus, 1766) - South-eastern Venezuela east to French Guiana, south to eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and northern Brazil (Roraima).
pachyrhynchus von Berlepsch, 1889 - Amazon Basin in Brazil (Amazonas and Par� south to Rond�nia and north-western Mato Grosso), eastern Peru and northern Bolivia.
affinis Swainson, 1834 - Eastern Brazil (Pernambuco and southern Tocantins south to Santa Catarina), eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (south to Corrientes).

References
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Files:

JPG files for Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous) - 10 files

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