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title: "Bluish-gray Saltator"
description: "Saltator coerulescens — Birds. The bluish-grey saltator or Amazonian grey saltator (Saltator coerulescens) is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is widespread in semi-open habitats in tropical and subtropical South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/bluish-gray-saltator
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bluish-gray Saltator

> Saltator coerulescens — Birds. The bluish-grey saltator or Amazonian grey saltator (Saltator coerulescens) is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is widespread in semi-open habitats in tropical and subtropical South America.

- Scientific name: *Saltator coerulescens*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `savanna` (Savanna)
- iNaturalist observations: 3501
- Wikidata: [Q531938](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531938)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9850](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9850)

## Names

- en: Bluish-gray Saltator
- de: Grausaltator
- es: Saltador Gris
- fr: Saltator gris
- nl: Grijze saltator
- pt: Sabiá-gongá
- pl: Ziarnołusk szary

## Countries with the most observations

AR (2236), BR (625), BO (127), EC (120), PY (118), PE (84), CO (26), UY (13)

## Summary

The bluish-grey saltator or Amazonian grey saltator (Saltator coerulescens) is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae that is widespread in semi-open habitats in tropical and subtropical South America.
Two of its former subspecies groups, grandis (of Mexico and Central America) and olivascens  (of northern South America and Trinidad), are now recognized as separate species, the cinnamon-bellied saltator and the olive-grey (or Caribbean grey) saltator.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluish-grey_saltator

## Photo

![Bluish-gray Saltator](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bluish-gray-saltator/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/226461232

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bluish-gray-saltator?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).