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The palmchat is the national bird of the Dominican Republic.. The following is a list of the bird species recorded in the Dominican Republic.The avifauna of the Dominican Republic included a total of 327 species as of October 2024, according to Bird Checklists of the World (Avibase). [1]
The palmchat (Dulus dominicus) is a small, long-tailed passerine bird, the only species in the genus Dulus and the family Dulidae endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti). It is related to the waxwings, family Bombycillidae.
One is endemic to Haiti and an additional 29 species are endemic to the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic. This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 63rd Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS). [2]
The Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic is a book published as no.155 in the zoological monograph series Bulletin of the United States National Museum.It was authored by Alexander Wetmore, with the assistance of Bradshaw H. Swales, and was published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC in 1931.
The Hispaniolan trogon (Priotelus roseigaster), also known as cacos is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae. It is endemic to Hispaniola (both Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in the Caribbean. It is one of the only two trogon species found in the Caribbean. [2] It is the national bird of Haiti. [3]
With an estimated 5,600 plant species on the island of Hispaniola, some of which only occur in Haiti, 36% are considered as endemic to the island. [1] A mountainous area country, it is situated in the western three-eighths of Hispaniola and shares a border with the Dominican Republic.
The avifauna of Hispaniola included a total of 327 species, according to Bird Checklists of the World as of November 2024. [1] [2] [3] Of them, 14 have been introduced by humans and 111 are rare or accidental. One species is endemic to the Dominican Republic, one is endemic to Haiti, and 28 more are endemic
Q. n. niger – (Boddaert, 1783): the nominate subspecies, found on Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) Q. n. caribaeus – (Todd, 1916): found in western Cuba and on Isla de Juventud; Q. n. gundlachii – Cassin, 1867: found in central and eastern Cuba; Q. n. caymanensis – Cory, 1886: found on Grand Cayman Island