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Palm Tanager

Thraupis palmarum · Family Thraupidae

Thraupis palmarum

Family Thraupidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
GBIF occurrence records
918,899
Countries and territories with records
24
Palm Tanager
@LuizAlves1990 · Thraupis palmarum por Luiz Alves (01).jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · @LuizAlves1990 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Thraupis_palmarum_-_Palm_Tanager_XC113791.mp3 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 918,899 occurrence records from 24 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (29.4%), Costa Rica (21.3%), Brazil (20.2%), Panama (9.5%) and Ecuador (8.3%); together they account for 88.7% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 1% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Thraupis palmarum combines the genus name Thraupis with the species epithet palmarum. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Thraupis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Thraupis episcopus, Thraupis sayaca and Thraupis abbas.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 17.7 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Thraupidae

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