vireo
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A rather plain but sweet-looking species called the Philadelphia vireo wasn’t studied a single time during this 55-year period, according to the analysis.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
A River Partners analysis of the property found species including riparian woodrat, Swainson’s hawk, least Bell’s vireo, yellow warbler, sandhill crane and “an entire suite of neotropical migratory songbirds.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
The song that Gary made the recording of did sound a bit like a bird called a brown-capped vireo.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2021
PLF’s attorneys have sued on behalf of the Texas Farm Bureau to strip protections from a small bird called the black-capped vireo.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2019
Yet the vireo is more common than two-thirds of the birds he knows.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker
"The density of migratory warblers, flycatchers, and vireos crowded into these five forests is astounding, and means that each hectare protected there safeguards a disproportionate number of birds."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
Some of the relatively understudied species were Philadelphia vireos, crissal thrashers, black-chinned sparrows, and olive warblers.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
Brush rabbits, woodrats, Swainson’s hawks, Central Valley Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, least Bell’s vireos, greater sandhill cranes — all protected species — have found a home on the restored floodplain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
From the comfort of the wooden boardwalks weaving across the marshy terrain and an observation tower, birders can spot vireos, sparrows and warblers, as well as raptors, such as red-shouldered hawks and bald eagles.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022
The vireos twitter as they carry food to their nestlings.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
