Yellow-green vireo

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Yellow-green vireo
In Panama

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Vireonidae
Genus: Vireo
Species:
V. flavoviridis
Binomial name
Vireo flavoviridis
(Cassin, 1851)
Range
  Summer breeding range
  Winter non-breeding range
Synonyms

Vireo olivaceus flavoviridis
Vireosylvia flavoviridis (

protonym
)

The yellow-green vireo (Vireo flavoviridis) is a small American

Amazon Basin
.

Taxonomy

The yellow-green vireo was

type locality is San Juan de Nicaragua.[4][5] The yellow-green vireo is now placed in the genus Vireo that was introduced in 1808 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot.[6][7]

Five subspecies are recognised:[7]

  • V. f. hypoleucus Van Rossem & Hachisuka, 1937 – northwest Mexico (southeast Sonora to south Sinaloa)
  • V. f. flavoviridis (Cassin, 1851) – north central, northeast Mexico to Panama
  • V. f. forreri Madarász, 1885 – Islas Marías (off west Mexico)
  • V. f. perplexus (Phillips, AR, 1991) – north Guatemala
  • V. f. vanrossemi (Phillips, AR, 1991) – southeast El Salvador

Description

The adult yellow-green vireo is 14–14.7 cm in length and weighs 18.5 g. It has olive-green upperparts and a dusky-edged gray crown. There is a dark line from the bill to the red-brown eyes, and a white supercilium. The underparts are white with yellow breast sides and flanks. Young birds are duller with brown eyes, a brown tint to the back, and less yellow on the underparts. The adult yellow-green vireo differs from the red-eyed vireo in its much yellower underparts, lack of a black border to the duller gray crown, yellower upperparts and different eye color.

Some individuals are difficult to separate, even in the hand, from the similar

passage bird in countries such as Venezuela
is therefore uncertain.

The yellow-green vireo has a nasal nyaaah call, and the song is a repetitive veree veer viree, fee’er vireo viree, shorter and faster than that of the red-eyed vireo. This species rarely sings on its wintering grounds.

Distribution and habitat

It breeds from southern

Cordillera Neovolcanica) south to central Panama. It is migratory, wintering in the northern and eastern Andes and the western Amazon basin. This vireo
occurs in the canopy and middle levels of light woodland, the edges of forest, and gardens at altitudes from sea level to 1500 m.

Behaviour and ecology

Breeding

The 6.5-cm-wide cup nest is built by the female from a wide range of plant materials, and attached to a stout twig normally 1.5–3.5 m above the ground in a tree, but occasionally up to 12 m high. The normal clutch is two or three brown-marked white eggs laid from March to June and incubated by the female alone, although the male helps to feed the chicks. The breeding birds return to Central America from early February to March, and most depart southwards by mid-October.

Feeding

Yellow-green vireos feed on

gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba).[8]

Gallery

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22705248A130373893.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cassin, John (1851). "Sketch of the birds composing the genera Vireo Vieillot and Vireosylvia, Bonaparte, with a list of the previously known and descriptions of three new species". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 5: 149–154 [152].
  3. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  4. ^ Zimmer, John Todd (1941). Studies of Peruvian birds. No. 39, The genus Vireo. American Museum novitates: No. 1127. p. 2.
  5. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1968). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 123.
  6. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1808). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique Septentrionale : contenant un grand nombre d'espèces décrites ou figurées pour la première fois (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Chez Desray. p. 83. The title page bears a date of 1807 but the volume did not appear until the following year.
  7. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Shrikes, vireos, shrike-babblers"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  8. ^ Foster (2007)

Further reading

  • Skutch, Alexander F. (1960). "Yellow-green vireo" (PDF). Life Histories of Central American Birds II. Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 34. Berkeley, California: Cooper Ornithological Society. pp. 11–28.

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