Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Rosario Douglas, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Ryan F. Mandelbaum, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus), photo 5 — Photo: (c) novvictan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Esteban Villa Restrepo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus), photo 8 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus), photo 9 — Photo: (c) brendanboyd, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slate-colored Grosbeak (Saltator grossus), photo 10 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

What the Slate-colored Grosbeak sounds like

Sonogram of the Slate-colored Grosbeak: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Uuntsuants, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · El Oro: Reserva Buenaventura 9 km WNW Piñas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Slate-colored Grosbeak

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

Where to see the Slate-colored Grosbeak

Regular range

The map shades 13 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Ecuador Costa Rica Colombia Panama Brazil Peru Venezuela Guyana Suriname French Guiana Nicaragua Honduras Bolivia

About the Slate-colored Grosbeak

The slate-coloured grosbeak is a species of grosbeak in the family Thraupidae. Most of its range is the Amazon in South America, but it is also found in forests of the Chocó in Ecuador and Colombia, and southern Central America from Panama to Honduras.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Lesser Antillean SaltatorSaltator albicollisLesser 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).

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.

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