Red-rumped Cacique
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Order: Passeriformes
Family: Icteridae

[Photo] Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous). Source Flickr (http://flickr.com/photos/timinbrazil/526084500/). Date: 31 May 2007. Author: http://flickr.com/photos/timinbrazil/

The Red-rumped Cacique (Cacicus haemorrhous) is a species of bird in the Icteridae family. It is a species of the Amazon Basin and the Guyanas in northern South America, and is only coastal there in the Guyanas and the Amazon River outlet to the Atlantic; a separate large disjunct range exists in all of southeastern and coastal Brazil, including Paraguay, and parts of northeastern Argentina. It is also found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Red-rumped Cacique's natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

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