Lesser Antillean Saltator (Saltator albicollis) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ShrublandCup nestSmall · 41 g

Lesser Antillean Saltator (Saltator albicollis), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Donald Davesne, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesser Antillean Saltator (Saltator albicollis), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesser Antillean Saltator (Saltator albicollis), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Eric Knight, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesser Antillean Saltator (Saltator albicollis), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesser Antillean Saltator (Saltator albicollis), photo 9 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Lesser Antillean Saltator (Saltator albicollis), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Tommy Andriollo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

Lesser Antillean saltators grow to a length of 21–22 cm (8.3–8.7 in) and a weight of 37–51.6 g (1.31–1.82 oz). They are olive-green from the back to the top of the head, with a greyish lower back and rump. The face is greyish, with a thin greenish-white supercilium. The beak is black with a yellow gape and apex. The throat is greenish-white, the chest is olive-green, and the flanks are grey. The species does not show sexual dimorphism.

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When to see the Lesser Antillean Saltator

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Lesser Antillean Saltator

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Guadeloupe St. Lucia Martinique Dominica Colombia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Ecuador.

About the Lesser Antillean Saltator

The Lesser Antillean saltator is a species of songbird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is found in Dominica, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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Easily confused with

Black-throated GrosbeakSaltator fuliginosusThe black-throated grosbeak is a seed-eating passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Orinoco SaltatorSaltator orenocensisThe Orinoco saltator or Orinocan saltator is a species of saltator in the family Thraupidae.

Thick-billed SaltatorSaltator maxillosusMeasures about 19 centimeters.

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