Gangs of Montezuma Oropendolas are widespread within the grounds of the Lodge at Pico Bonito on the Caribbean facet of Honduras. The colonial, woven hanging nests we noticed at Lancetilla Botanical Gardens have been unoccipied as a result of have been weren’t there within the breeding season. Then the males defend giant harems of a lot smaller females and produce a posh warbling music, seemingly fairly out of maintaining with the scale of the fowl.
Relationships between the assorted species of oropendola look like contentious, most likely unsurprising given the usage of solely mitochondrial DNA to type the idea of the statistical evaluation. Psarocolius montezuma appears in widespread use together with Gymnostinops montezuma. It’s discovered from Mexico to Panama.