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Adult palm tanagers are 19 cm (7.5 in) long and weigh 36 g (1.3 oz). They are grey to dull olive-green. The flight feathers are blackish, and the long tail is blackish edged with green. A yellow wingbar shows in flight. Sexes are similar, although females may be somewhat paler.
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When to see the Palm Tanager
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Palm Tanager
The map shades 15 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Grenada.
About the Palm Tanager
The palm tanager is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder from Nicaragua south to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. It also breeds on Trinidad and, since 1962, on Tobago. In Trinidad and Tobago, it is known by colloquial names such as the "palmiste," on American Spanish countries, Brazil Pipira-verde, and the "green jean" in American English.
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Easily confused with
Sayaca TanagerThraupis sayacaThe sayaca tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers.
Blue-grey TanagerThraupis episcopusThe blue-gray tanager is 16–18 cm (6.3–7.1 in) long and weighs 30–40 g (1.1–1.4 oz).
Yellow-winged TanagerThraupis abbasThe yellow-winged tanager is a neotropical member of the tanager family.
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