Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps Scientific name definitions

Black-headed Saltator is a fairly common resident from central Mexico south to Panama, and is characterized by its large black bill, very dark head with a trace of a pale supercilium, white throat outlined in black, pale gray underparts and nuchal collar, and olive green upperparts. It is generally sociables, usually found in family parties that sometimes join mixed-species foraging flocks. It often is shy or skulking, remaining inside dense vegetation, but it gives its presence away with frequent loud vocalizations. Black-headed Saltator inhabits a wide variety of well-vegetated semi-open habitats, principally in lowland regions, including gardens and plantations, and tit is omnivorous, feeding on both fruit and insects.