SALTATORS & GROSBEAKS   -   CARDINALIDAE

Red-hooded Tanager Piranga rubriceps La Bonita road, Sucumbíos province, Ecuador. The SACC recently accepted a proposal to transfer several genera to from the Thraupidae to the Cardinalidae, including Piranga, Habia, and Chlorothaupis. (D3)

Red-headed Tanager Piranga erythrocephala erythrocephala La Soledad, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Male. (S5)

White-winged Tanager Piranga leucoptera venezuelae Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Pichincha province, Ecuador. Male. (S5)

Red-throated Ant-Tanager Habia fuscicauda salvini North of Mapastepec, Chiapas state, Mexico. (S5)

Red-throated Ant-Tanager Habia fuscicauda willisi Soberania NP, Panama province, Panama. Male. (S2f)		Ochre-breasted Tanager Chlorothraupis stolzmanni stolzmanni Milpe Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha province, Ecuador. This dull tanager has a huge mouth and sings loudly and monotonously for the first few hours of the morning. This particular bird's song can be heard here.  (S5)

Golden-bellied Grosbeak Pheucticus chrysogaster chrysogaster Nono, Pichincha province, Ecuador. Male. A gorgeous bird, locally common at fairly high elevations in the Andes, south to Peru. (S5)

Black-backed Grosbeak Pheucticus aureoventris aureoventris Palomitas, Salta province, Argentina. Male. (D3)		Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus North of Mapastepec, Chiapas state, Mexico. Female. On its wintering grounds. (S5)

Red-breasted Chat Granatellus venustus venustus Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Male. Endemic to Mexico. Granatellus was also transferred to the Cardinalidae after the SACC accepted this proposal in 2008. (S5)		Red-breasted Chat Granatellus venustus venustus Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Female. (S5)

Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis carneus Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Male. With it's elongated crest, this subspecies, endemic to southern Mexico, is sometimes considered a separate species, Long-crested Cardinal. (S5)

Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus maximus Buenaventura reserve, El Oro province, Ecuador. The SACC now classifies saltators as INCERTAE SEDIS, but I maintain them here for the time being. (S5)

Grayish Saltator Saltator coerulescens azarae Copalinga Lodge, Zamora-Chinchipe province, Ecuador. Enjoying some Cecropia fruit. (S5)

Green-winged Saltator Saltator similis similis Chapada de Diamantina, Bahia state, Brazil. (D3)

Black-throated Saltator Saltator atricollis Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. (D3)

Rufous-bellied Saltator Saltator rufiventris La Cuesta del Obispo, Salta province, Argentina. An uncommon and very local species of the high Andes from Bolivia to northern Argentina. It is not very saltator-like, and I have heard through the grapevine that it might soon be reclassified as a mountain-tanager. (S5)

Blue-black Grosbeak Cyanocompsa cyanoides concreta Las Guacamayas, Chiapas state, Mexico. Male. (S5)		Ultramarine Grosbeak Cyanocompsa brissonii brissonii Chapada de Diamantina, Bahia state, Brazil. Male. (D3)

Ultramarine Grosbeak Cyanocompsa brissonii argentina Palomitas, Salta province, Argentina. Male. (D3)

Ultramarine Grosbeak Cyanocompsa brissonii brissonii Canudos-Jeremoaba road, Bahia state, Brazil. Female. (D3)

Rose-bellied Bunting Passerina rositae Foothills north of Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico. Male. This beautiful and uniquely-colored bird is endemic to a small area of southern Mexico in Oaxaca and Chiapas. Howell & Webb (1994) called it Rosita's Bunting. (S5)		Rose-bellied Bunting Passerina rositae Foothills north of Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico. (D5)

Orange-breasted Bunting Passerina leclancherii grandior Zipolite, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Male. An amazingly colored bird that is so bright that it almost seems to glow. It is also endemic to Mexico - makes you want to go, doesn't it? (S5)

Dickcissel Spiza americana 20km south of Calabozo, Guárico state, Venezuela. Male. One on its wintering grounds in the Llanos of Venezuela, where they congregate in immense flocks. (D3)

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