Green-winged Saltator | |
---|---|
Individual with abnormal white (leucism) on its back | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | incertae sedis |
Genus: | Saltator |
Species: | S. similis |
Binomial name | |
Saltator similis D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 |
The Green-winged Saltator (Saltator similis) is a species of cardinal (bird) in the Cardinalidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and ranges into the southern cerrado and the pantanal.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.