Orinoco Saltator

When to see the Orinoco Saltator

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Orinoco Saltator

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Orinoco Saltator

The Orinoco saltator or Orinocan saltator is a species of saltator in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Venezuela in areas west, north, and upon the Orinoco River region and to the Caribbean coast; also border regions in adjacent northeast Colombia. It can also be found on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

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Easily confused with

Thick-billed SaltatorSaltator maxillosusMeasures about 19 centimeters. Masked SaltatorSaltator cinctusThe masked saltator is a species of passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. Black-throated GrosbeakSaltator fuliginosusThe black-throated grosbeak is a seed-eating passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.