| The raucous calls of large flocks of caciques are a welcome feature of travels in the neotropics. Central Panama had 3 kinds of caciques with which one must concern oneself, which may be confusing until they flash their signature plumage. I enjoyed the Scarlet-rumped Cacique pictured below from the viewing platform at the Canopy Tower, and he graciously showed off every aspect of his distinct plumage. |
| In early July of 2005, a pair of Scarlet-rumped Caciques built their hanging-basket best above a viewing platform in front of the Canopy Tower. The attentive parents were almost always the first birds heard and seen each morning from atop the Tower, and with some patience I was able to get some footage of the adults crawling into the nest to feed the restless fledgling(s) therein. |
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