Inquisitive Crested Oropendola Explores Panama Fruit Feeders | July 10 2025

A surprise Crested Oropendola visited the Panama Fruit Feeders recently! These relatives of blackbirds and orioles nest in colonies and are known for their complex, liquid-like vocalizations as well as their pendulous woven nests that can be over a meter long.

Although an uncommon visitor to the Panama Feeders, the Crested Oropendola is one of the more common and most widespread oropendola species, occuring from Costa Rica, where the species arrived as recently as 1999, south over much of South America east of the Andes, and as far as northeast Argentina.

The bird’s plumage appears largely black with a chestnut rump and ventral underparts, while most of the tail is yellow, which is especially obvious in flight or from below when perched, and the irides are blue. The Crested Oropendola is principally found below 1000 m, but has been recorded to at least 2600 m in Colombia, and in some areas it appears to perform some regular seasonal movements. The species’ colonies are regularly attended by the parasitic Giant Cowbird.

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The Panama Fruit Feeder Cam is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Canopy Family, and explore.org.

Learn more of what the Canopy Family has to offer at canopytower.com

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About the Site
The Panama Fruit Feeder Cam is located on the grounds of the Canopy Lodge in El Valle de Antón, Panama. This site is just over 2,000 ft above sea level in the low mountains of Cerro Gaital, with a mild springtime climate year-round. A small stream called Rio Guayabo runs past the feeders in the background, and the lush landscaping of the Canopy Lodge grounds grade into the forested slopes around them. The feeding table is around 40 feet from the main lodge, and is one of several feeders provisioned throughout the day so that guests to the lodge are greeted to spectacular views of many of the common birds found in this ecosystem.

About the Canopy Lodge
The Canopy Lodge is a full service lodge specializing in nature tourism with a focus on birds. It is about 60 miles west of Panama City in the picturesque village of El Valle de Antón, right in the center of the gigantic crater of an extinct volcano. This is the largest inhabited crater in the Western Hemisphere and second only to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. It is surrounded by the Cerro Gaital Natural Monument.

Canopy Lodge is one of a series of three ecotourism ventures developed by the Canopy Family. The first, Canopy Tower, involved transforming a former U.S. radar station overlooking the Panama Canal in Soberanía National Park into a unique birding lodge embedded in the canopy of the surrounding forest. Their newest property, Canopy Camp, offers a taste of some of the wildest lowland rainforest in Panama in the Darién region.

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