- Saltator atriceps
Identification
24 cm. Slate-grey head, whitish supercilium, yellow green upperparts, pale grey underparts, white throat edged with black, thick, black convex bill, brown legs. Young birds are duller, and have mottling on the breast and brown markings on the underparts.
Distribution
Central Mexico to eastern Panama.
Taxonomy
There are 6 subspecies.
Habitat
Dense vegetation.
Behaviour
The diet includes fruit, buds, nectar and slow-moving insects.
It builds a bulky grass-lined cup nest up to 3 m high in a thicket between April and July. 2 black-marked pale blue eggs are laid.
