Southern Mountain Cacique (Cacicus chrysonotus)
About the Southern Mountain Cacique
The mountain cacique (Cacicus chrysonotus) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae, the oropendolas, New World orioles, and New World blackbirds. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. The mountain cacique has a complicated taxonomic history. It was formally described in 1838 with the binomial Cacicus Chrysonotus [sic]. In the first half of the twentieth century many authors placed it in genus Archiplanus which was later merged into Cacicus. As of late 2025 taxonomic systems assign the mountain cacique these three subspecies: C. c. leucoramphus (Bonaparte, 1845) C. c. peruvianus Zimmer, JT, 1924 C. c. chrysonotus d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1838
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 70 recordings for this species: 13 CC BY-NC-SA · 1 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Bolivia, Colombia, Peru in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Casqued OropendolaCacicus oseryirecording
- Ecuadorian CaciqueCacicus sclaterirecording
- Northern Mountain CaciqueCacicus leucoramphusrecording
- Scarlet-rumped CaciqueCacicus microrhynchusrecording
- Solitary CaciqueCacicus solitariusrecording
- Subtropical CaciqueCacicus uropygialisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.