Scientific Name: Icterus cucullatus

Residency: Year-round in Southern tip of the state.  Summers are spent in the middle of the state, the northwest and the southeast.

Diet: Eats insects, berries, and flower nectar.

Predators: No information available.

Nesting:  Nest is made of coarse grasses and yucca or palmetto fibers, lined with finer materials, and sewn to the bottom of a palm tree leaf.  Eggs are 3-5 per clutch, pale with splotches, 2-3 broods per year.

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Notes:  They will come to sugar-water solutions found in hummingbird feeders.

Photo: Taken at Scottsdale Community College on April 13, 2007. For more photos, click on camera icon.