Green-winged saltator

Green-winged saltator
Individual with abnormal white (leucism) on its back
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.

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