Puerto Rican Spindalis (Spindalis portoricensis)

Other Names (World)
Puerto Rican Spindalis, Puerto Rican Tanager, Puerto Rican Stripe-headed Tanager

Family
Spindalidae (Spindalises)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bryant, 1866)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, dry and moist shrubland.

Range (Guide)

Puerto Rico (B).

Vagrant to Virgin Islands (British).

Puerto Rico.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)

Puerto Rican Spindalis (Spindalis) [XC46644]
by Eric DeFonso from Casa Cubuy, El Yunque NP, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico (song)

Puerto Rican Spindalis (Spindalis) [XC32229]
by Daniel Lane from Hacienda Juanita's, W of Maricao, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Spindalis zena (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Western Spindalis (Spindalis zena), Hispaniolan Spindalis (Spindalis dominicensis), Puerto Rican Spindalis (Spindalis portoricensis) and Jamaican Spindalis (Spindalis nigricephala) following AOU (2000).

Recent molecular-genetic studies suggest that this genus and Nesospingus, Chlorospingus and Phaenicophilus form a monophyletic clade that is sister to several New World warbler (Parulidae) genera (including Dendroica, Basileuterus and Vermivora), and are not closely related to other genera of present family. Forms a superspecies with Western Spindalis (Spindalis zena), Jamaican Spindalis (Spindalis nigricephala) and Hispaniolan Spindalis (Spindalis dominicensis) and all were formerly treated as conspecific, but differ in morphology, plumage and vocalizations, and are geographically isolated from one another. Present taxonomic arrangement may warrant further evaluation.

References
See References.

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