Vireo

The first bird noted was a familiar one -- the warbling vireo, which is very abundant in Colorado in its favorite localities, where all day you may be lulled by its "silvery converse, just begun and never ended." ❋ Unknown (1896)

_ His indolence struck me as very surprising for a vireo; still I had no question about his identity (he sat between me and the sun) till I changed my position, when behold! the vireo was a linnet. ❋ Bradford Torrey (1877)

(Soundbite of bird chirping) MANN: As I sit, a blue-headed vireo begins to sing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Somewhere along the way, the people who came up with the names of birds decided that they should be really cool words, like grackle and vireo. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1991, a new bird species was discovered in the Colombian Chocó: described in 1996, this was the Chocó vireo (Vireo masteri, EN), the scientific name being given through auction to Dr Bernard Master, raising $70,000 for the conservation of its threatened rainforest habitat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The most abundant breeding birds include the cardinal, tufted titmouse, wood thrush, summer tanager, red-eyed vireo, blue-gray gnatcatcher, and Carolina wren. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Usually the tanagers stay down in the creek woods--but I've seen several bird species in the yard that I've seen before only down in the woods: white-eyed vireo, yellow warbler, painted bunting, and now, the tanager. ❋ E_moon60 (2009)

Some of these species are found on San Andrés Island including two land birds the San Andrés mockingbird (Mimus magnirostris) and Sam Andrés vireo (Vireo caribaeus) and two reptiles — a lizard (Anolis concolor) and a snake (Coniophanes andresensis). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Among the numerous bird species found here are the prothonotary warbler, white-eyed vireo, wood duck, yellow-billed cuckoo, Louisiana waterthrush, and all the species found in the Southeastern Mixed Forest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The threatened golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo inhabit northwestern areas where the Ashe juniper is present. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some important breeding habitat for the black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapillus), a species endangered by habitat loss, occurs in this ecoregion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Birds at the reserve include four federally-listed endangered birds, in the light-footed clapper rail, the California least tern, the least Bell's vireo and the California brown pelican. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Tijuana River Reserve has six endangered species of birds, in the light-footed clapper rail, California least tern, Belding's savannah sparrow, least Bell's vireo, California brown pelican and occasionally the peregrine falcon. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Yellow-throated vireo and other migratory songbirds depend on the bottomland hardwood forest for resting and shelter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The southern nesting limits of two rare birds with very limited nesting ranges, the black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapillus) and golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia) are restricted to northern Tamaulipan Mezquital, in Texas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Six terrestrial birds are found of which three are endemic: the Noronho vireo, or sebito Vireo gracilirostris (VU D2), the cucurata Elaenia spectabilis ridleyana, and the arribaçã Zenaida auriculata noronha. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A few land birds are found inland on Fernando de Noronha, including the endemic Noronha vireo (Vireo gracilirostris), which is abundant in forests and trees. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These are the cahow, or Bermuda petrel (Pterodroma cahow), and the locally-termed "chick-of-the-village" (Vireo griseus bermudianus), a subspecies of the white-eyed vireo that has shorter wings, a larger head, and stout legs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

“The male red-eyed vireo, Vireo olivaceus, can sing up to twenty-two thousand songs in a single day.” ❋ Maribeth Fischer (2007)