#1450 · 🐦 birds

Palm Tanager

🇳🇱 Palmtangare ·Thraupis palmarum

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Anita Gould · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © David Cook · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jerry Oldenettel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jorge Emmanuel Escobar · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Nelson Wisnik · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Lip Kee · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. © Lip Kee · CC BY-SA 4.0
10. © Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The palm tanager ( Thraupis palmarum ) 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" and the "green jean".

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 19,337iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
19,337 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied in 1821 (205 years ago).