Montezuma Oropendola

The Montezuma Oropendola, Psarocolius montezuma, is a New World tropical icterid 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. It is among the oropendola species sometimes separated in the genus Gymnostinops. The English and scientific names of this species commemorate the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II.

The Montezuma Oropendola is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Montezuma Oropendola, Psarocolius montezuma, is a New World tropical icterid 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. It is among the oropendola species sometimes separated in the genus Gymnostinops. The English and scientific names of this species commemorate the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II. More

Montezuma oropendolas are locally common on the Caribbean coast of Central America, but generally local on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, northwestern Costa Rica, and Panama. SIGNIFICANCE TO HUMANS None known. Home of Wiki & Reference Answers, the world’s leading Q&A siteReference AnswersEnglish▼English▼ Deutsch Español Français Italiano Tagalog * * Search unanswered questions... More

The Montezuma Oropendola, Psarocolius montezuma, is a New World tropical icterid bird. It is among the oropendola species sometimes separated in the genus Gymnostinops. The English and scientific names of this species commemorate the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II. Distribution / Range 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. More

The Montezuma Oropendola is a favorite of the staff at TravelCostaRicaNow.com. Large, colorful, and fun to watch when they’re trying to impress, this species of oropendola should not be missed, so get your camera ready. Montezuma Oropendolas are found from southern Mexico to central Panama. In Costa Rica, they inhabit many parts of the country, most noticeably, in tropical lowland forest and secondary forest, to approximately 3,000 ft. More

The Montezuma Oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) is a New World tropical bird and I've been getting quite a show from the colony that is nesting here at La Selva Reserve in Costa Rica. The unforgettable song of the male is sung during his bowing display and consists of bubbling with loud gurgles. The male, while the female is hopefully watching, will execute a complete somersault around a branch while singing his medley of tunes. (View video at bottom of article. More

The strange and remarkable song of the Montezuma Oropendola is an ascending series of overlapping bubbly syllables which crescendo to a high peak. The song is often accompanied by a scratchy call that is reminiscent of a fizzling firecracker or the ripping of a thick fabric (Stiles & Skutch 1989). A single-syllable whiney eeuh call seems to function as a contact call between birds. Howell and Webb (1995) report other calls including "a squeaky woik, a low chuck... More

Montezuma Oropendola by Doug Janson Photographer: Doug Janson Location: Zoological Gardens Date Taken: 25/Jul/2007 Upload On: 25/Jul/2007 Rating: ****** Montezuma Oropendola is found in the following countries: 1. Belize 2. Costa Rica 3. Guatemala 4. Honduras 5. More

Call of the Montezuma Oropendola provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Recorded by C. Duncan. Producer: John Kessler Executive Producer: Chris Peterson © 2010 Tune In to Nature. More

You can find a very complete account of the Montezuma Oropendola on The University of Michigan’s Animal Diversity Web. A different account is at The Milwaukee Public Museum (scroll down a bit). For an article on the Crested Oropendola, see The Honolulu Zoo. More

The Montezuma oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) is the largest member of the blackbird family found in Central America (Gupta, 2001; Webster, 2003). Montezuma oropendolas are highly frugivorous, although they also eat a wide variety of invertebrates and small vertebrates (Levee, 1988; Loiselle, 1988; Webster 1997). The Montezuma oropendola has a unique social system, as it is one of only a few bird species that exhibits female-defense polygyny (Webster, 1994a). More

The Montezuma Oropendola is a quite common bird in the areas of its range. Physical Description The sexes are very different in size; the male is 50 cm long and weighs 520g, while the smaller female weighs 230g and is 38 cm long. Adult males are mainly chestnut with a blackish head and rear. Their tail is bright yellow apart from two dark feathers in the center. It has a bare blue cheek patch and a pink wattle. More

Montezuma Oropendola Psarocolius montezuma, at Rancho Naturalista, Costa Rica. Date: 6 January 2000. Photo by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimfbleak Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". More

Montezuma Oropendola in half-completed hanging nest Subject: Montezuma Oropendola, Psarocolius montezuma, with half-completed nest Location: Parque Eco-Arqueol More

Montezuma Oropendola is a very strange name for a cool looking bird I saw in Costa Rica. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean lowland from Mexico to Panama. The males are mainly chestnut with a blackish head and a bright yellow ... More

The Montezuma Oropendola 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 northwestern Costa Rica. More