Managua - Nicaragua - What is this bird? (1 Viewer)

[Meziane]

Hello,

I don't succeed to identify this bird viewed Nov, 27 2023 In Managua (Nicaragua). Any idea ?

Regards

 

[AlanMatthews]

Is it a Cinnamon-bellied Saltator?

 

[Mike Earp]

Is it a Cinnamon-bellied Saltator?

Which is treated as Grayish Saltator Saltator coerulescens in Vallely & Dyer (2018, Birds of Central America - Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama).

 

[THE_FERN]

Agree

 

[njlarsen]

Agree on the id.

Which is treated as Grayish Saltator Saltator coerulescens in Vallely & Dyer (2018, Birds of Central America - Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama).

Which just goes to show that a book that came out in 2018 can be behind on Taxonomy, Grayish Saltator has been split into three species.
Niels

 

[Mike Earp]

Agree on the id.

Which just goes to show that a book that came out in 2018 can be behind on Taxonomy, Grayish Saltator has been split into three species.
Niels

Hardly surprising as the proposal for the split went to SACC only in 2020; see here. The three-way split is not yet universally implemented.

 

[THE_FERN]

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Hardly surprising as the proposal for the split went to SACC only in 2020; see here. The three-way split is not yet universally implemented.

The birds in question do look nigh identical...