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Latin America is home to a number of oropendola species. They are large, social, noisy relatives of blackbirds and orioles that weave long, hanging basket-nests in loose colonies in tall trees. This is the widely-distributed russet-backed oropendola, one of the biggest of the group. They were photographed near San Pedro, at about 1500 m elevation on the east slope of the Andes in southern Peru. The one below is displaying. |
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