Saltator grandis
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In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
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 |
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report a Cinnamon-bellied Saltator sighting in Tegucigalpa on a given day, based on 929 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 7th most-seen of the 142 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and July
In those months about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Cinnamon-bellied Saltator in Tegucigalpa on a given day, against about 40% in December, the lowest month. Those are among Tegucigalpa's wettest months, with about 160 mm of rain a month against 10 mm in January.
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.
3rd of 6
Of the 6 cities where we can rate Cinnamon-bellied Saltator sightings, Tegucigalpa ranks 3rd at about 60%. The best odds are in Managua (Nicaragua, about 70%) and San Salvador (El Salvador, about 60%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cinnamon-bellied Saltator is recorded against all the birds logged in Tegucigalpa (929 verified sightings), 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.
