Thick-billed Saltator Saltator maxillosus Brazilian name: Bico-grosso
	Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil November 2008 The Thick-billed Saltator is distributed in south-east Brazil from Espírito Santo to the north of Rio Grande do Sul and adjacent areas of north-east Argentina. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. It is found in the canopy and borders of forest and woodland. The bill is bigger and shorter than in other saltators as well as having a noticeably curved culmen. It is black with orange at the base. It has a long white supercilium and the male has grey upperparts. Below the throat is buff with black malar stripes and is otherwise buffy-grey with deep buff on the vent.
	It is the only sexually dimorphic saltator and the female has olive upperparts replacing the grey of the male. It is further distinctive by its diet which consists mainly of leaves such as those of chusquea bamboo.
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