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Bluish-grey Saltator

Saltator coerulescens

Classification

Class
Aves

The bluish-grey saltator or Amazonian grey saltator (Saltator coerulescens) is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is widespread in semi-open habitats in tropical and subtropical South America. Two of its former subspecies groups, grandis (of Mexico and Central America) and olivascens (of northern South America and Trinidad), are now recognized as separate species, the cinnamon-bellied saltator and the olive-grey (or Caribbean grey) saltator. Taxonomy The bluish-grey saltator was formally described in 1817 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot under the…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 15,278Peru · 7,033