Abundance: 0.11 to 9.18% (median 1.83%)

Latitudinal range: -23.8° to 18.5°

Habitats: desert/xeric shrubland (1), temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (10), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (23), tropical/subtropical savanna (10)

Found in 45 samples

Belize: Belize Groves Management Company Limited (orange orchard #4), Blue Creek Village (Indian Village), Blue Creek Village (Pig Alley)

Bolivia: Noel Kempff Mercado National Park

Brazil: Nova Era, Estação Ecológica de Águas Emendadas, Serra da Canastra National Park, Fazenda Brejão, Reserva Florestal do Morro Grande, Rio Paraná (cerrado, dry season), Palmas, Uberabinha River, Ilha Grande (vertically-mobile nets), Ilha Grande (ground level nets), Chapada dos Guimarães National Park, Serra do Condurú State Park, Federal University of Acre, Serra dos Órgãos, Vermelho River (edge), Vermelho River (interior)

Colombia: Mirití Paraná River

Costa Rica: La Selva Biological Station (gap), Finca La Bella

Ecuador: Tiputini Biodiversity Station (Harpia, 2001), Podocarpus National Park

Guatemala: Purulha, Finca Caobanal, Puerto Barrios (mist netted birds)

Honduras: Centro de Investigacíon y Jardín Botánico Lancetilla

Mexico: Palomares, Palenque National Park (control sites), Palenque National Park (unconnected sites)

Nicaragua: Siuna (birds, primary forest), Siuna (birds, secondary forest), Siuna (birds, allspice), Siuna (birds, pasture)

Panama: Chiva Chiva Road (early shrub), Chiva Chiva Road (late shrub), Mamoní Valley

Paraguay: Para La Tierra Biological Station

Peru: Cachil Valley

Venezuela: Cumaná, Araya Peninsula (tropical thorn scrub), Instituto de Biología Experimental (wet season), Instituto de Biología Experimental (dry season)

See also Saltator albicollis, Saltator atriceps, Saltator atricollis, Saltator aurantiirostris, Saltator azarae, Saltator cinctus, Saltator coerulescens, Saltator grossus, Saltator maximus, Saltator similis, Saltator striatipectus