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Photo by Steve G
La Fortuna, Costa Rica

Saltator atriceps

[edit] Identification

24 cm. Slate-grey head, whitish supercilium, yellow green upperparts, pale grey underparts, white throat edged with black, thick, black convex bill, brown legs. Young birds are duller, and have mottling on the breast and brown markings on the underparts.

[edit] Distribution

Central Mexico to eastern Panama.

[edit] Taxonomy

Photo by Steve G
La Fortuna, Costa Rica

There are 6 subspecies.

[edit] Habitat

Dense vegetation.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes fruit, buds, nectar and slow-moving insects.

[edit] Breeding

It builds a bulky grass-lined cup nest up to 3 m high in a thicket between April and July. 2 black-marked pale blue eggs are laid.

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