Phaenicophilus palmarum
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
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 |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Black-crowned Palm-Tanager sighting in Jaragua National Park on a given day, based on 93 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 13th most-seen of the 92 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Black-crowned Palm-Tanager in Jaragua National Park on a given day, against about 20% in January, March and October, the lowest months. That is one of Jaragua National Park's wettest months, with about 90 mm of rain against 20 mm in January. June to September have too few records to rate.
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.
2nd of 2
Of the 2 parks where we can rate Black-crowned Palm-Tanager sightings, Jaragua National Park ranks 2nd at about 30%. The best odds are in Los Haitises National Park (Dominican Republic, about 40%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Black-crowned Palm-Tanager that you can see in Jaragua National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are Stolid Flycatcher (about 40%), Northern Mockingbird (about 30%) and Gray Kingbird (about 30%), 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 Jaragua National Park (93 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
