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Montezuma Oropendola – The Golden Pendulum
Written by Bob Sundstrom
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[Montezuma Oropendola song]
On a winter morning within the Central American tropics, the solar rises.
In a clearing, surrounded by dense forest, stand the ruins of a Mayan metropolis.
And on the warming air, this music… [Montezuma Oropendola song]
Perched beside its nest is the writer of these gurgling tones – a Montezuma Oropendola.
He sings once more, this time with a sound just like the pop of firecrackers. [Montezuma Oropendola song, with firecracker notes]
The 20-inch-tall male Montezuma Oropendola is feathered in wealthy chestnut brown. He is an outsized cousin of orioles, wielding a pointy spike of a invoice tipped in crimson. As his music show begins, he grasps a department in his ft, bows ahead, after which hangs fully upside-down, wings fluttering. His lengthy tail turns into clearly seen, vivid yellow, pointing upward.
Our oropendola’s now suspended head downward, swinging by his ft, singing.
His tail describes a golden pendulum – the supply of his identify in Spanish – oropendola. [Montezuma Oropendola song, with firecracker notes]
You possibly can study extra and see a photograph of an oropendola, on our web site, birdnote.org. I’m Michael Stein.
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Name of the Montezuma Oropendola supplied by The Macaulay Library of Pure Sounds on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Recorded by C. Duncan.
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© 2015 Tune In to Nature.org March 2017/2019/2022 Narrator: Michael Stein
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