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title: "Yellow-rumped Cacique"
description: "Cacicus cela — Aves. The yellow-rumped cacique (Cacicus cela) is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/yellow-rumped-cacique
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-rumped Cacique

> Cacicus cela — Aves. The yellow-rumped cacique (Cacicus cela) is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae.

- Scientific name: *Cacicus cela*
- Category: `birds` (Aves)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 4554
- Wikidata: [Q580297](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q580297)
- iNaturalist taxon: [10359](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/10359)

## Names

- en: Yellow-rumped Cacique
- de: Gelbbürzelkassike
- es: Arrendajo culiamarillo
- fr: Cassique cul-jaune
- nl: Geelstuitbuidelspreeuw
- pl: Kacykowiec żółtosterny

## Countries with the most observations

BR (1023), EC (832), PE (686), CO (514), PA (256), GF (156), BO (145), VE (73), TT (52), SR (46), GY (42)

## Summary

The yellow-rumped cacique (Cacicus cela) is a passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. It breeds in much of northern South America from Panama, Venezuela and Trinidad south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil. However, they have been sighted as far north as Nayarit state in Mexico.

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

## Photo

![Yellow-rumped Cacique](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-rumped-cacique/medium.jpg)

Photo: TheMongrelKoi · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305906930

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-rumped-cacique?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).