Phaenicophilus palmarum
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The black-crowned palm-tanager or black-crowned tanager (Phaenicophilus palmarum) is a species of bird of the family Phaenicophilidae, the Hispaniolan palm-tanagers. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola which is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
In 1760, the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the black-crowned palm-tanager in his Ornithologie. He used the French name Le palmiste and the Latin name Merula palmarum. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system, and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition in 1766, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson; one of them was the black-crowned palm-tanager. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Turdus palmarum and cited Brisson's work. The specific name palmarum is the Latin for "of palm trees". The species is now placed in the genus Phaenicophilus that was introduced by the English geologist and naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland in 1851.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Haitises National Park | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | |
| 2 | Jaragua National Park | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santo Domingo | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Black-crowned Palm-Tanager sighting in Santo Domingo on a given day, based on 559 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 18th most-seen of the 110 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Black-crowned Palm-Tanager in Santo Domingo on a given day, against about 40% in April and June–September, the lowest months. That is one of Santo Domingo's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 70 mm in May.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-crowned Palm-Tanager sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Santo Domingo, in our data
Santo Domingo is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-crowned Palm-Tanager sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Black-crowned Palm-Tanager that you can see in Santo Domingo (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Palmchat (about 90%), Bananaquit (about 90%) and Northern Mockingbird (about 80%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-crowned Palm-Tanager is recorded against all the birds logged in Santo Domingo (559 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
