Puerto Rican Tanager
Nesospingus speculiferus
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Birds
The Puerto Rican tanager is a small passerine bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico. It is the only member of the genus Nesospingus and has historically been placed in the tanager family, but recent studies indicate it as either belonging in its own family Nesospingidae or as being a member of Phaenicophilidae. Its closest relatives are likely the spindalises. The Puerto Rican tanager is known to locals as llorosa, which means 'cryer'.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Phaenicophilidae
- Genus
- Nesospingus