Saltator grandis
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The cinnamon-bellied saltator (Saltator grandis) is a passerine bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found from Mexico to Panama. The cinnamon-bellied saltator has a complicated taxonomic history. It was formally described in 1830 with the binomial Tanagra grandis. By 1938 it had been reassigned to its present genus Saltator. In that year Carl Eduard Hellmayr merged what are now the cinnamon-bellied saltator and many other species and subspecies into S. coerulescens under the English name grey saltator. At the time the genus Saltator was in the subfamily Richmondeninae, the cardinals, within the very large family Fringillidae. By the late twentieth century the cardinals, with Saltator, had been split as the family Cardinalidae. In the mid-2010s taxonomic systems began to move Saltator to its present tanager family Thraupidae. And in the early 2020s systems began splitting S. coerulescens into the cinnamon-bellied, olive-grey (S. olivascens), and bluish-grey (S. coerulescens sensu stricto) saltators.
The cinnamon-bellied saltator has these six subspecies: The cinnamon-bellied saltator is 22 to 24 cm (8.7 to 9.4... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Managua | 🇳🇮 Nicaragua | |
| 2 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 3 | Tegucigalpa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 4 | Guatemala City | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 5 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | San Pedro Sula | 🇭🇳 Honduras |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Cinnamon-bellied Saltator sighting in Carara National Park on a given day, based on 254 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 253rd most-seen of the 414 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–July and September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Cinnamon-bellied Saltator in Carara National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August and October–April, the lowest months. Those are among Carara National Park's wettest months, with about 560 mm of rain a month against 35 mm in February.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cinnamon-bellied Saltator sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
25th of 36
Of the 36 parks where we can rate Cinnamon-bellied Saltator sightings, Carara National Park ranks 25th at under 5%. The best odds are in Masaya Volcano National Park (Nicaragua, about 80%), Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve (Mexico, about 40%) and Cerro Azul Meámbar National Park (Honduras, about 30%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cinnamon-bellied Saltator is recorded against all the birds logged in Carara National Park (254 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
