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title: "Montezuma oropendola"
description: "Psarocolius montezuma — Vogels. The Montezuma oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) is a New World tropical icterid bird."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/montezuma-oropendola
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Montezuma oropendola

> Psarocolius montezuma — Vogels. The Montezuma oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) is a New World tropical icterid bird.

- Scientific name: *Psarocolius montezuma*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 8549
- Wikidata: [Q934975](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q934975)
- iNaturalist taxon: [68047](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/68047)

## Names

- en: Montezuma Oropendola
- de: Montezumastirnvogel
- es: Oropéndola de Moctezuma
- fr: Cassique de Montezuma
- it: Gymnostinops montezuma
- nl: Montezuma oropendola
- pl: Kacykowiec aztecki

## Countries with the most observations

CR (4159), MX (2447), HN (405), NI (251), PA (246), GT (218), BZ (176)

## Summary

The Montezuma oropendola (Psarocolius montezuma) is a New World tropical icterid bird. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean coastal lowlands from southeastern Mexico to central Panama, but is absent from El Salvador and southern Guatemala. It also occurs on the Pacific slope of Nicaragua and Honduras and northwestern and southwestern Costa Rica. It is among the oropendola species sometimes separated in the genus Gymnostinops. The English and scientific names of this species commemorate the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma_oropendola

## Photo

![Montezuma oropendola](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/montezuma-oropendola/medium.jpg)

Photo: Juan J. Morales-Trejo · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330545944

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/montezuma-oropendola?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).