Typical Caciques
Cacicus
The caciques are passerine birds in the New World blackbird family which are resident breeders in tropical South America north to Mexico. All of the group are in currently placed in the genus Cacicus, except the aberrant yellow-billed cacique (Amblycercus holosericeus), and the Mexican cacique (Cassiculus melanicterus) which constitute respective monotypic genera. Judging from mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 sequence (Price & Lanyon 2002), the aberrant oropendolas band-tailed oropendola (Ocyalus latirostris) and casqued oropendola, Psarocolius oseryi (Ocyalus oseryi?) seem to be closer to the caciques.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species
Yellow-rumped Cacique
speciesCacicus cela
Red-rumped Cacique
speciesCacicus haemorrhous
Solitary Black Cacique
speciesCacicus solitarius
Scarlet-rumped Cacique
speciesCacicus uropygialis
Golden-winged Cacique
speciesCacicus chrysopterus
Mountain Cacique
speciesCacicus chrysonotus
Casqued Cacique
speciesCacicus oseryi
Band-tailed Cacique
speciesCacicus latirostris
Ecuadorian Cacique
speciesCacicus sclateri
Selva Cacique
speciesCacicus koepckeae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 10356.