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Icterus gularis
Orange (or yellow)-breasted, yellow-stripped wing, black-chin small bird. At 25 cm and 56 grams.
Dry tropical open woodlands in Pacific lowlands, El Ostional, Rivas, Southwest Nicaragua. Sunny day during the last hot/dry months of their winter
Spotted the bird near a hanging thatch nest. The nest is a very long woven pouch, attached to the end of a horizontal tree branch,
Spotted on Apr 20, 2012
Submitted on Apr 21, 2012
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Nesting habits similar to the closely related Oropendola spp.