Cardinals (Cardinalidae)
Black-cowled Saltator (Saltator nigriceps) - HBW 16, p. 418
French: Saltator à capuchon
German: Schwarzgesichtsaltator
Spanish: Pepitero Capuchinegro
Taxonomy: Pitylus nigriceps Chapman, 1914, Loja, 7000 feet [c. 2130 m], Ecuador.
Affiliations of genus uncertain; recent molecular-genetic analyses indicate that it does not belong with present family, and may be better placed with tanagers (Thraupidae). Present species sometimes treated as conspecific with S. aurantiirostris, but appears to differ vocally; closely allied also with S.maxillosus. Monotypic.
Distribution: S Ecuador (El Oro and Loja) and NW Peru (Piura, extreme E Lambayeque and Cajamarca).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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front view perched, flies Locality Abra de Porculla, Piura Department, Peru (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 22 October 2012 27 weeks ago 13 sec 3.6
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A perched bird
Locality Abra de Porculla, Piura Department, Peru
Chris and Megan Perkins 15 November 2011 1 year ago 3.5
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