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FURTADO SILVA, Eliane  e  COSTA CAMPOS, Carlos Eduardo. Breeding behavior of the yellow-rumped cacique Cacicus cela Linnaeus, 1758 (Passeriformes: Icteridae) in the Curiau Protection Area, Amapa, Brazil. Rev. etol. [online]. 2010, vol.9, n.2, pp. 11-20. ISSN 1517-2805.

The yellow-rumped cacique Cacicus cela is a Passeriformes that breeds in colonies being common in secondary forest and woodland, including deciduous forest and gallery woodland. The purpose of this study was to describe several aspects of the reproduction of this species in the Curiaú Protection Area, Macapá, Brazil. Eight colonies were monitored in altered areas and gallery woodland during the breeding season. The building mean time was 19.8 ± 8.3 days. The height of the nests in relation to the ground varied of 4.0 the 8.0 meters in different colonies. Considering all the nests, also the ones that lost or had been abandoned before the female making the position, the colonies had varied of 11 the 115 nests, with 52.7 ± 38.7 nests. The reproductive station had beginning in the October month. The sex ratio in the capture data was of (1 male: 2.7 females). The incubation and fledgling was females. The song types more imitated by the individuals of C. cela were of birds of the families Psittacidae, Falconidae, Ramphastidae and Cuculidae.

Palavras-chave : Cacicus cela; Icterinae; Reproductive biology; Curiaú Protection Area.

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