Palm Tanager Thraupis palmarum


Brazilian name: sanhaçu-do-coqueiro
Palm Tanager, Parque do Zizo, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2006 - click for larger image Brazil

The Palm Tanager is widespread from Honduras to Panama and southwards east of the Andes to central Bolivia and south-east Brazil and west of the Andes to south-west Ecuador.
Palm Tanager, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, November 2006 - click for larger image As its name suggests, it seems to like habitat with palms on which it feeds but it is also common in gardens, farmland and in forest and woodland borders.

It is olive-grey in colour with a pale-grey tinge to the head and the wing-coverts. The end of the wings looks black when closed.

There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 1, Plate 17; Hilty & Brown, Plate 51; and Ridgely & Greenfield, Plate 89.

There are recordings and a distribution map on xeno-canto .
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