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Buff-throated Saltator
Saltator maximus · Family Thraupidae
Saltator maximus
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 431,919
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 431,919 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (43.5%), Colombia (16.1%), Ecuador (10.3%), Panama (9%) and Brazil (5.5%); together they account for 84.4% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.72% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Saltator maximus combines the genus name Saltator with the species epithet maximus. The Warbla app catalog lists 16 species of the genus Saltator; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Saltator grandis, Saltator atriceps and Saltator striatipectus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 8.3 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.