Cardinals (Cardinalidae)
Thick-billed Saltator (Saltator maxillosus) - HBW 16, p. 418
French: Saltator à bec épais
German: Dickschnabelsaltator
Spanish: Pepitero Picudo
Taxonomy: Saltator maxillosus Cabanis, 1851, Montevideo; error = southern Brazil.
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 closely allied to S. nigriceps and S. aurantiirostris; interbreeding with latter has been reported, but recent studies state that there is little or no interbreeding. Monotypic.
Distribution: SE Brazil (extreme SE Bahia and extreme E Minas Gerais S to Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul) and extreme NE Argentina (Misiones).
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A bird manipulating leaves with its bill and eating them Locality Itatiaia National Park, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 July 2004 6 years ago 42 sec 4.1 -
A perched bird calling Locality Itatiaia National Park, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 July 2004 6 years ago 18 sec 3.9 -
Bird chewing leaves to take the juice.We have noted many times this species feeding this form. Locality Campos do Jordao, São Paulo State, Brazil
Antonio Silveira 1 August 2006 41 weeks ago 19 sec 3
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