Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma)
…a New World tropical icterid (blackbird family) bird. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean coastal lowlands from southeastern Mexico to central Panama, but is absent from El Salvador and southern Guatemala. It also occurs on the Pacific slope of Nicaragua and Honduras and northwestern Costa Rica.
(Video of several birds feeding - click here)
The sexes are very different in size; the male is 50 cm long and weighs 520 g; the smaller female is 38 cm long and weighs 230 g. The “unforgettable” song of the male Montezuma Oropendola is given during the bowing display, and consists of a conversational bubbling followed by loud gurgles, tic-tic-glik-glak-GLUUuuuuu.
(Video of a male calling and displaying - click here)
Both sexes have loud cack and crrrk calls. inhabits forest canopy, edges and old plantations. It is a colonial breeder which builds a hanging woven nest of fibres and vines, 60–180 cm long, high in a tree…
(read more: Wikipedia)
(photos: T - Kathy and Sam; B - nests, by Tim Ross)
