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The Black-crowned Palm Tanager (Phaenicophilus palmarum) is a medium-sized tanager.
Distribution / Habitat:
This tanager is generally common in lowlands and occasionally in highlands across the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Description:
The Black-crowned Palm-Tanager has an entirely black crown and washed-out gray underparts that blend into an entirely white throat area but do not contrast sharply with it (Latta et al. 2006, Raffaele et al. 1998).
Immature birds have a mottled grey crown.
Nesting / Breeding:
The bulky cup nest is built in a tree and the normal clutch consists of two brown-blotched creamy eggs. The female incubates the eggs for 13–14 days to hatching, with another 14–18 days before the chicks fledge.
Diet:
Their primary diet consists of fruit. But they also eat nectar, seeds and insects, usually taken from the underside of branches.
Calls / Vocalizations:
Its song sounds like peee-u.
Species Research by Sibylle Johnson
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