vireo

Conservation and management of the least Bell’s vireo, California least tern, and western snowy plover have resulted in significant increases to on-base populations of these species, according to the agency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2025

I noticed that many of your previous papers cover the gray vireo, which your new study quantifies as a “drab,” understudied bird.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025

Wrote Bob: “Red-eyed vireo becomes REVI. Snowy owl becomes, appropriately, SNOW. So, the Washington Commanders becomes, also appropriately, WACO. You have the power, so you can add the K.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022

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

By this time a daily interview had come to be counted upon as a matter of course, by me certainly, and, for aught I know, by the vireo as well.

From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey

"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

A photo caption that accompanied an image with the article misidentified a downy woodpecker as a hairy woodpecker, and a group of bright yellow finches or vireos was referred to only as “birds.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023

There were no insects singing, there were no catbirds, or orioles, or vireos, or robins.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George