The Green-winged Saltator occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. It has a long white eyebrow, a white throat, and olive-green back and wings.
It has a long white supercilium and a white throat. The back and flight feathers are olive green, with grey lores and ear coverts.
It lives in secondary forest and well-wooded orchards. Insects make up most of its diet, supplemented by fruit and berries.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In Brazilian wildlife-enforcement records for 2005–2009, the Green-winged Saltator ranked second among the bird species listed as seized.