Palm Tanager Tangara palmarum Thraupis palmarum

Palm Tanager Tangara palmarum
(aka Thraupis palmarum)

Brazilian name: sanhaçu-do-coqueiro

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. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.

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.

Palm Tanager, Sauípe, Bahia, Brazil, October 2008 - click for larger image

There is a page in Portuguese on Wikiaves.

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