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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.
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]
Genus Sheppardia – akalats (9 species) Genus Cossyphicula – white-bellied robin-chat – may belong in Cossypha; Genus Cossypha – robin-chats (15 species, excluding the white-bellied robin-chat) Genus Cichladusa – palm-thrushes (3 species) Genus Cercotrichas – scrub-robins or bush-chats (10 species) Genus Myophonus, whistling thrushes
Here’s what you might not know about the country’s top five most commonly sighted backyard birds, according to 2015 to 2021 data from Project FeederWatch, a November to April survey of birds ...
The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.The series include two types of guides, those that are: Taxonomic, dealing with a particular family of birds on a worldwide scale—most early Helm Guides were this type, as well as many more-recent ones, although some later books deal with identification of such groups on a regional scale only (e.g., The Gulls ...
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
This article lists living orders and families of birds. In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that. [1] The order passerines (perching birds) alone accounts for well over 5,000 species.
The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.