The Story
I photographed this Streaked Saltator (Saltator striatipectus) near El Rosario, in the Patía valley of Nariño, Colombia. It lives from Costa Rica to Peru in dry to moist woodland, scrub, brushy pastures and gardens, up to about 2,500 meters in Colombia. It feeds on insects, fruits, seeds, flowers and buds. It usually forages in pairs, sometimes in small groups, at all levels of its habitat. IUCN lists it as Least Concern. It is 19 to 20.5 centimeters long, and the sexes have the same plumage.
I made this frame with a Canon R5 and the RF 800mm f/11, at 1/350 sec, f/11, ISO 1600, +0.5 EV. In 2018, bird monitoring by the Humboldt Institute in the dry forests of Mercaderes, Taminango and El Rosario recorded 80 species.
©2022 Adam Rainoff Photographer
The bird
The Streaked Saltator (Saltator striatipectus) belongs to the family Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the eBird/Clements taxonomy.
Source: eBird.org (opens in a new tab)
Conservation
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (assessment published 2021), with the population trend listed as stable. Source: IUCN Red List
