Grey-crowned tanager
| Grey-crowned tanager | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Phaenicophilidae |
| Genus: | Phaenicophilus |
| Species: | P. poliocephalus
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| Binomial name | |
| Phaenicophilus poliocephalus (Bonaparte, 1851)
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The grey-crowned tanager or grey-crowned palm-tanager (Phaenicophilus poliocephalus) is a species of bird in the family Phaenicophilidae. It was formerly placed in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti).
Distribution[]
P. poliocephalus is common, but local, on the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, and on the satellite islands of Île-à-Vache, Grande Cayemite and Gonâve Island. In the Dominican Republic, it is rare on the north and south slopes of the Sierra de Bahoruco, and on the southern part of Loma de Toro and Hoyo de Pelempito.
Habitat[]
Its natural habitats are lowland and montane moist forests, mangrove forests, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Phaenicophilus poliocephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22722301A180140497. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22722301A180140497.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- IUCN Red List near threatened species
- Phaenicophilus
- Birds described in 1851
- Endemic birds of Hispaniola
- Endemic birds of the Caribbean
- Birds of the Dominican Republic
- Birds of Haiti
- Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte