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Yellow-rumped cacique        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Caciques and oropendolas are large, social icterids, related to blackbirds and orioles.   They build large, hanging nests in trees.   Yellow-billed caciques are abundant, noisy birds of low-altitude Neotropical forests.   These were photographed in southeastern Peru.

  • Canon 1D4 or 7D, 500 mm IS lens plus 1.4X or 2X extender, fill-in flash (2013)