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Photo by Pantanal1
Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Saltator coerulescens

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Central America, South America
Central America: Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Tobago, Trinidad
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• S. c. vigorsii:

• North-western Mexico (Sinaloa, western Durango, Nayarit and coastal northern Jalisco)

• S. c. richardsoni:

• Western Mexico (Jalisco to Colima, Guerrero and adjacent western Oaxaca)

• S. c. grandis:

• Eastern Mexico (Tamaulipas) to Guatemala and central Costa Rica

• S. c. yucatanensis:

• South-eastern Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula, adjacent Tabasco and north-eastern Chiapas)

• S. c. hesperis:

• Pacific slope of southern Mexico (Chiapas) to Nicaragua

• S. c. brevicaudus:

• Pacific slope of western Costa Rica (Gulf of Nicoya region)

• S. c. plumbeus:

• Caribbean coast of northern Colombia (Río Sinú to Magdalena Valley)

• S. c. brewsteri:

• Tropical north-eastern Colombia to Venezuela; Trinidad

• S. c. olivascens:

• Tepuis of southern Venezuela to the Guianas and adjacent northern Brazil

• S. c. azarae:

• Tropical eastern Colombia to Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil

• S. c. mutus:

• Northern Brazil (lower Solimões to Mexiana Island, Amapá and northern Maranhão)

• S. c. superciliaris:

• North-eastern Brazil (southern Piauí to northern and eastern Bahia)

• S. c. coerulescens:

• Eastern Bolivia to Paraguay, south-western Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina

[edit] Habitat

Rain forest, second growth, forest edge, open bushy terrain. Also garden feeders.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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