Warbling Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Taxobox
name = Warbling Vireo


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status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Vireonidae
genus = "Vireo"
species = "V. gilvus"
binomial = "Vireo gilvus"
binomial_authority = (Vieillot, 1808)
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range_map_caption = Area of occurrence

The Warbling Vireo, "Vireo gilvus", is a small songbird.

Adults are 12 cm long and weigh 12 g. They are mainly olive-grey on the head and upperparts with white underparts; they have brown eyes and the front of the face is light. There is a white supercilium. They have thick blue-grey legs and a stout bill. Western birds are generally smaller.

Their song is a cheerful warble, similar to that of the Painted Bunting. There are subtle differences in song between eastern and western birds. Some authorities split the eastern and western races of this species into separate species:
*Western Warbling Vireo, "V. swainsonii"
*Eastern Warbling Vireo, "V. gilvus"

The Brown-capped Vireo ("Vireo leucophrys"), a resident species in Central America and northern South America, is sometimes considered to be conspecific with Warbling Vireo.

The Warbling Vireo's breeding habitat is open deciduous and mixed woods across most of North America, from Alaska to Mexico.

These birds migrate to Mexico and Central America.

They forage for insects in trees, hopping along branches and sometimes hovering. They also eat berries, especially before migration and in winter quarters, where they are - like other vireos - apparently quite fond of Gumbo-limbo ("Bursera simaruba") seeds, though they will not venture into human-modified habitat to get them [Foster (2007)] .

They make a deep cup nest suspended from a tree branch or shrub, placed relatively high in the east and lower in the west. The male helps with incubation and may sing from the nest.

Footnotes

References

*|year=2004|id=51011|title=Vireo gilvus|downloaded=12 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* (2007): The potential of fruiting trees to enhance converted habitats for migrating birds in southern Mexico. "Bird Conservation International" 17(1): 45-61. doi|10.1017/S0959270906000554 [http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=936412 PDF fulltext]
* (2003): "Birds of Venezuela". Christopher Helm, London. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
* (1989): "A guide to the birds of Costa Rica". Comistock, Ithaca. ISBN 0-8014-9600-4

External links

* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Warbling_Vireo.html Warbling Vireo Species Account] - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
* [http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i6270id.html Warbling Vireo - "Vireo gilvus"] - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
* [http://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/warbling_vireo_info.htm Warbling Vireo Information and Photos] - South Dakota Birds and Birding
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=warbling+vireo&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Warbling Vireo photo gallery] - VIREO


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