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Russet-backed Oropendola
Psarocolius angustifrons (Spix, 1824)
Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
Russet-backed Oropendola Psarocolius angustifrons is a bird of western and northern South America, with a breeding range across Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It belongs to the Icteridae, the group that includes the oropendolas, New World orioles and blackbirds. Its range is split into separate populations, and it occupies a variety of forested and plantation habitats, from Amazonian várzea and river-edge clearings to humid montane forest and foothill woodland. It is also a social bird, and it feeds, nests and rests in groups.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: w, n
