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 LC    Slate-colored Grosbeak* Id (Atlas):
    Saltator grossus

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Pitylus grossus [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Pitylus grossus [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Other Names (World)
Slate-colored Grosbeak, Slate-coloured Grosbeak, White-throated Grosbeak, Slaty Grosbeak

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (81)...)

 
Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus) [XC638350]
     by Niels Krabbe from Brisas, Colombia (song)

 
Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus) [XC273486]
     by Robert S. Ridgely from R\u00edo Claro, Doradal, Antioquia, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus) and Black-throated Grosbeak (Saltator fuliginosus) were formerly placed in the genus Pitylus but are here moved to Saltator following AOU (even though Black-throated Grosbeak (Saltator fuliginosus) is a South American species, occuring outside the AOU region).

Affiliations of genus uncertain. Recent molecular-genetic analyses indicate that it does not belong with present family, and may be better placed with tanagers (Thraupidae). Sometimes treated as conspecific with Black-throated Grosbeak (Saltator fuliginosus), and both sometimes placed in a separate genus, Pitylus.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • saturatus (Todd, 1922)   -  Eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, Panama (Caribbean slope, and eastern from Veraguas on Pacific slope), north-western Colombia (west of Andes) and western Ecuador (south to western Loja and El Oro).
  • grossus (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  South-eastern Colombia east of Andes (southern from Vichada), southern Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolí­var), the Guianas, northern Brazil (south to northern Mato Grosso and Maranhío), eastern Ecuador (Sucumbí­os south to Zamora-Chinchipe), eastern Peru and northern Bolivia (Bení­ and north-western Santa Cruz).



References
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Files:
JPG files for Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus) - 10 files


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