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GREEN-WINGED SALTATOR Saltator similis
Saltators are thickset, tanager-like birds with huge crunching bills. The Green-winged Saltator is a secretive and hard to observe bird generally encountered in humid forests where he skulks amongst the vegetation. Many birders incorrectly identify the greenish-backed juvenile of the more widespread Greyish Saltator as this species when confronted with it for the first time, but note the much longer white eyebrow of this species which extends well beyond the eye.
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE3617PH) Adult singing, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Roberto Derna October 2012).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE3618PH) Same individual as (FPAVE3617PH) ventral view (Roberto Derna October 2012).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE1451PH) Adult head of a dead bird that flew into a window view, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul SmIth September 2007).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE1452PH) Same individual as (FPAVE1451PH) lateral view (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE1453PH) Same individual as (FPAVE1451PH) ventral view (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 6 - (FPAVE1454PH) Same individual as (FPAVE1451PH) dorsal view (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 7 - (FPAVE1455PH) Juvenile ventral view, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
VIDEO - (FPAVE1784VI) Adult singing, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith December 2010).
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Saltator similis
1 (FPAVE1456RE) Song  recorded Yaguarete Forest, Departamento San Pedro (Myriam Velázquez August 2000).
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