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title: "Olive-gray Saltator"
description: "Saltator olivascens — Ptaki. The olive-grey saltator (Saltator olivascens), also known as the Caribbean grey saltator, is a quiet, grey-colored passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae, native to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, far northern Brazil, and Trinidad."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/olive-gray-saltator
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Olive-gray Saltator

> Saltator olivascens — Ptaki. The olive-grey saltator (Saltator olivascens), also known as the Caribbean grey saltator, is a quiet, grey-colored passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae, native to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, far northern Brazil, and Trinidad.

- Scientific name: *Saltator olivascens*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1921
- Wikidata: [Q55118652](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55118652)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1286908](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1286908)

## Names

- en: Olive-gray Saltator
- de: Karibiksaltator
- es: Pepitero oliváceo
- fr: Saltator de Cabanis

## Countries with the most observations

CO (1325), VE (223), TT (112), GY (17), SR (15), BR (9), GF (9), PA (7)

## Summary

The olive-grey saltator (Saltator olivascens), also known as the Caribbean grey saltator, is a quiet, grey-colored passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae, native to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, far northern Brazil, and Trinidad. It was formerly considered conspecific with the greyish saltator (Saltator coerulescens), but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021. The olive-grey saltator includes the subspecies brewsteri and plumbeus.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Diego López · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/271275103

## Machine access

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