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 |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Black-crowned Palm-Tanager sighting in Los Haitises National Park on a given day, based on 209 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 27th most-seen of the 106 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Black-crowned Palm-Tanager in Los Haitises National Park on a given day, against about 20% in July and December, the lowest months. That is one of Los Haitises National Park's wettest months, with about 160 mm of rain against 50 mm in February.
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.
Yes
Of the 2 parks where we can rate Black-crowned Palm-Tanager sightings, Los Haitises National Park has the highest daily chance: about 40%. Next come Jaragua National Park (Dominican Republic, about 30%).
Same order: Passeriformes
The closest relatives of the Black-crowned Palm-Tanager that you can see in Los Haitises National Park (order Passeriformes, Perching Birds) are White-necked Crow (about 90%), Palmchat (about 80%) and Gray Kingbird (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 Los Haitises National Park (209 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.
