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Montezuma Oropendola

Psarocolius montezuma

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) lauralovebird, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica	2,819
Mexico	1,640
Provincia Alajuela	1,048
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	917
Provincia Limón	548
Provincia Heredia	449
Provincia Cartago	347
Provincia Puntarenas	192
Chiapas	189
Guatemala	160

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Dietary

OmnivoreFeeds on both plants and animalsBIRDBASE avian traits database

Group and habits

Tree nestingListed by a harvested source as nesting in trees.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Pendulous nestingListed by a harvested source as building pendulous nests.BIRDBASE avian traits database
Brood-parasite hostListed by a harvested source as a host of brood parasites.BIRDBASE avian traits database

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Birds · Aves
Order	Perching Birds · Passeriformes
Family	New World Blackbirds and Orioles · Icteridae
Genus	Oropendolas · Psarocolius

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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Traits: BIRDBASE avian traits database (CC BY 4.0)
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