page_title: Yellow-rumped cacique
section_title: Ecology
hierarchical_section_title: Yellow-rumped cacique / Ecology
caption_attribution_description: Cacicus cela English: Yellow-rumped Cacique and nests in Peru.
context_page_description: The yellow-rumped cacique is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. It breeds in much of northern South America from Panama and Trinidad south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil. However, they have been sighted as far north as Nayarit state in Mexico.
context_section_description: The yellow-rumped cacique is a bird associated with open woodland or cultivation with large trees. This gregarious bird eats large insects and fruit.
  It is a colonial breeder, with up to 100 bag-shaped nests in a tree, which usually also contains an active wasp nest.  The females build the nests, incubate, and care for the young. Each nest is 30–45 cm long and widens at the base, and is suspended from the end of a branch. Females compete for the best sites near the protection of the wasp nest.  The normal clutch is two dark-blotched pale blue or white eggs.  Females begin incubating after laying the second egg; hatching occurs after 13 or 14 days.  The young fledge in 34 to 40 days, usually only one per nest.
caption: Nesting in Peru
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