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Palm Tanager (Thraupis palmarum)
A Palm Tanager on the bare branch of a tree at the Mount St. Benedict Monastery, in the Northern Range of Trinidad. Since my last Palm Tanager post was not a good photo due to the chromatic aberration, I decided I would post another photo that I found satisfactory. The location I mentioned above is a Roman Catholic monastery and abbey in the Northern Range, Trinidad's largest and highest mountain range; from this location a wide variety of birds can be seen, especially high soaring species and species that occur at higher elevations.
The palm tanager 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".
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