Listen to the Yellow-billed cacique
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About the Yellow-billed cacique
The Yellow-billed cacique is a bird in the family Icteridae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the Yellow-billed cacique sound like?
Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
The recordings here are labelled as song, call, scold and alarm call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The yellow-billed cacique (Amblycercus holosericeus) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Mexico, every Central American country, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
More from the family Icteridae
Red-winged blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus
Brown-headed cowbird
Molothrus ater
Baltimore oriole
Icterus galbula
Venezuelan troupial
Icterus icterus
Common grackle
Quiscalus quiscula
Great-tailed grackle
Quiscalus mexicanus
Shiny cowbird
Molothrus bonariensis
Yellow-headed blackbird
Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Yellow-rumped cacique
Cacicus cela
Eastern meadowlark
Sturnella magna
Giant cowbird
Molothrus oryzivorus
Crested oropendola
Psarocolius decumanus
Frequently asked questions
What does a Yellow-billed cacique sound like?
You can hear 5 recordings of the Yellow-billed cacique on this page, including its song, call and scold. Bird vocalisations are usually divided into songs – longer, often complex phrases used to defend territory and attract mates, sung mostly by males in the breeding season – and calls: short, simple sounds for contact, alarm, begging or flight.
Is the Yellow-billed cacique endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Yellow-billed cacique as “least concern”.
What family does the Yellow-billed cacique belong to?
The Yellow-billed cacique (Amblycercus holosericeus) belongs to the family Icteridae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Call · Azuay: Río Mazan, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Scold · Zamora-Chinchipe: camp on Ventanilla-Christopher Parson… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Song · Morona-Santiago: mid Gualaceo-Limón road, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Song · Morona-Santiago: mid Gualaceo-Limón road, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Alarm call · Zamora-Chinchipe: camp on Ventanilla-Christopher Parson… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1300850 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Yellow-billed cacique – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by https://www.flickr.com/photos/neilorlandodiazmartinez – CC BY-SA 2.0