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(Ploceus nelicourvi)
Andasibe Lemurs Lodge
Madagascar
Pushing the limits of the ISO range on my trusty old D500, a faithful companion on several great trips.
The golden-winged cacique (Cacicus chrysopterus) – Tecelão – is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
It is also known simply as soldier, or even as blackbird, nhapim, magpie, sergeant, mia-gato and japim-soldado. It has no subspecies.
Its scientific name means: from (Spanish) cacicus = chief; name for chiefs used in the Spanish Caribbean; and from (Greek) khrusos = gold, golden, yellow; and from pterux, pterugos = wing, wing feathers; khrusopteros = with yellow wing, with golden wing. ⇒ Golden-winged chief.
Characteristics: It is about 20.5 centimeters long. It is slender, with a long, black tail. It has a yellow rump and upper middle wing coverts that are sulfur-colored. Its beak is light bluish-gray, the iris is white or light brown. It has a nasal voice: “quä-ä”. Its melodious song is very beautiful, with a timbre reminiscent of the corrupião, e.g. “dü, düliö-di di”, repeated without haste.
Feeding: its diet is mixed. With its pointed beak, it searches for food in fruits, buds, rolled leaves, flowers, honeycombs, rotten wood and others. It enjoys the fruits/seeds of the aroeira-do-campo (Schinus lentiscifolius).
Reproduction: It builds a pouch nest, with black vegetal hair. Woven with the precision of a machine, the nest is 58 centimeters long. It generates, on average, two broods per season, with three eggs each. (Wikipedia and WikiAves)
The golden-winged cacique (Cacicus chrysopterus) – Tecelão – is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
It is also known simply as soldier, or even as blackbird, nhapim, magpie, sergeant, mia-gato and japim-soldado. It has no subspecies.
Its scientific name means: from (Spanish) cacicus = chief; name for chiefs used in the Spanish Caribbean; and from (Greek) khrusos = gold, golden, yellow; and from pterux, pterugos = wing, wing feathers; khrusopteros = with yellow wing, with golden wing. ⇒ Golden-winged chief.
Characteristics: It is about 20.5 centimeters long. It is slender, with a long, black tail. It has a yellow rump and upper middle wing coverts that are sulfur-colored. Its beak is light bluish-gray, the iris is white or light brown. It has a nasal voice: “quä-ä”. Its melodious song is very beautiful, with a timbre reminiscent of the corrupião, e.g. “dü, düliö-di di”, repeated without haste.
Feeding: its diet is mixed. With its pointed beak, it searches for food in fruits, buds, rolled leaves, flowers, honeycombs, rotten wood and others. It enjoys the fruits/seeds of the aroeira-do-campo (Schinus lentiscifolius).
Reproduction: It builds a pouch nest, with black vegetal hair. Woven with the precision of a machine, the nest is 58 centimeters long. It generates, on average, two broods per season, with three eggs each. (Wikipedia and WikiAves)
The golden-winged cacique (Cacicus chrysopterus) – Tecelão – is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
It is also known simply as soldier, or even as blackbird, nhapim, magpie, sergeant, mia-gato and japim-soldado. It has no subspecies.
Its scientific name means: from (Spanish) cacicus = chief; name for chiefs used in the Spanish Caribbean; and from (Greek) khrusos = gold, golden, yellow; and from pterux, pterugos = wing, wing feathers; khrusopteros = with yellow wing, with golden wing. ⇒ Golden-winged chief.
Characteristics: It is about 20.5 centimeters long. It is slender, with a long, black tail. It has a yellow rump and upper middle wing coverts that are sulfur-colored. Its beak is light bluish-gray, the iris is white or light brown. It has a nasal voice: “quä-ä”. Its melodious song is very beautiful, with a timbre reminiscent of the corrupião, e.g. “dü, düliö-di di”, repeated without haste.
Feeding: its diet is mixed. With its pointed beak, it searches for food in fruits, buds, rolled leaves, flowers, honeycombs, rotten wood and others. It enjoys the fruits/seeds of the aroeira-do-campo (Schinus lentiscifolius).
Reproduction: It builds a pouch nest, with black vegetal hair. Woven with the precision of a machine, the nest is 58 centimeters long. It generates, on average, two broods per season, with three eggs each. (Wikipedia and WikiAves)
An endemic species.
Solitaire - Namibia
Sítio Macuquinho Birdwatching - Salesópolis, SP, Brazil.
This bird is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
They are regular visitors to birdfeeders throughout its range in the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Passeri
Family: Icteridae
Genus: Cacicus Lacepede, 1799
Species: C. chrysopterus (Vigors, 1825)
Binomial name: Cacicus chrysopterus
(Ploceus sakalava)
Arboretum - Toliara
Madagascar
(Ploceus sakalava)
Arboretum - Toliara
Madagascar
(Ploceus nelicourvi)
Andasibe Lemurs Lodge
Madagascar
(Ploceus sakalava)
Spiny forest - Ifaty
Madagascar
(Ploceus nelicourvi)
Andasibe Lemurs Lodge
Madagascar
And on the thirteenth day, the easy birds!
Ploceus melanocephalus, Lagoa pequena de Albufeira, Sesimbra, Portugal
This is an image of the male Southern Masked-weaver. It had built 3 nests and all of them were rejected by the female. He tried to embelish them but to no avail. That's when it decided to start a new nest.
Mokuti Etosha Lodge
Namibia
