Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus)

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.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (82)...)

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus) [XC272143]
by Peter Boesman from Mozeskreek area, W Suriname, Suriname (song)

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus) [XC275146]
by Patricio Mena Valenzuela from Sucumb\u00edos: 'La Selva Jungle Lodge', n bank R\u00edo Napo, Ecuador (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, Bol��var), the Guianas, northern Brazil (south to northern Mato Grosso and Maranh�o), eastern Ecuador (Sucumb��os south to Zamora-Chinchipe), eastern Peru and northern Bolivia (Ben�� and north-western Santa Cruz).

References
See References.

Files:

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