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The olive-grey saltator has a thick, black bill that is slightly hooked at the end, with white supercilliaries (giving it a distinct white "eyebrow"), and a thin white crescent under its eye. Distinct black malar stripes frame either side of a white throat. Its underside is a light grey with some buffy coloration towards its flanks and undertail coverts. Voice: Described as having "a 'stuttering song' with rather harsh-sounding downslurred notes", they alternate high and low pitched notes to form a short but sweet melody that can be heard throughout the year. Both males and females sing, at times duetting in "a fast series of repeated rising whit notes, a series of overslurred low-pitched chup notes or loosely repeated high-pitched tseet notes.
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When to see the Olive-grey Saltator
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Olive-grey Saltator
The map shades 8 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Olive-grey Saltator
The olive-grey saltator, also known as the Caribbean grey saltator, is a quiet, grey-colored passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae, native to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, far northern Brazil, and Trinidad. It was formerly considered conspecific with the greyish saltator, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021. The olive-grey saltator includes the subspecies brewsteri and plumbeus.
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Easily confused with
Green-winged SaltatorSaltator similisSlightly smaller than other species of the same genus, it has the same strong black beak that gave rise to the common name of these birds.
Bluish-grey SaltatorSaltator coerulescensOn average, the bluish-grey saltator is 20 cm long and weighs 52 g.
Black-winged SaltatorSaltator atripennisThe black-winged saltator is a species of songbird found in Colombia and Ecuador.
Side by side: Bluish-grey Saltator vs Olive-grey Saltator · Green-winged Saltator vs Olive-grey Saltator
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