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Tambopata, Peru - December 2008
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| Yellow-rumped Cacique is a noisy and gregarious species that is common throughout the Amazon basin below 900m altitude in open areas with scattered trees, forest borders, clearings and around human habitation. |
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Tambopata, Peru - December 2008
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| As well as their own wide repertoire of calls, individuals of the nominate race cela, in the eastern part of the species' range, are accomplished mimics of other species. Interestingly, this talent for mimicry has not been observed in birds living in the western Amazonian basin. |
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Tambopata, Peru - December 2008
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Tambopata, Peru - December 2008
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| Like many Icterids, the Yellow-rumped Cacique is a colonial nester and build their pouch-shaped, hanging nests quite close to each other in the same tree. At the Explorer's Inn in Tambopata National Reserve about 20 or 30 pairs nest in the palm trees in front of the Lodge buildings. |
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adult beside its nest - Tambopata, Peru - December 2008
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