Grey-crowned tanager

Grey-crowned tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Incertae sedis
Genus: Phaenicophilus
Species: P. poliocephalus
Binomial name
Phaenicophilus poliocephalus
(Bonaparte, 1851)

The grey-crowned tanager or grey-crowned palm-tanager (Phaenicophilus poliocephalus) is a species of bird formerly placed in the family Thraupidae. It is found almost completely within Haiti, but a small population exists in the Dominican Republic.

Its natural habitats are lowland and montane moist forests, mangrove forests, rural gardens, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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