Bird name:

Plumbeous Vireo

Vireo plumbeus

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Vireos (Vireonidae)

Code 4

PLVI

Code 6

VIRPLU

ITIS

554477

Breeding Location:

Forest, Bushes

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Fairly common, Accidental in LA

Egg Color:

White with red brown spots at large end

Number of Eggs:

3 - 5

Incubation Days:

14 - 15

Egg Incubator:

Both sexes

Nest Material:

Bark, grasses, plant fibers, spider web., Lined with fine grasses and plant down.

Migration:

Migratory

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General

Plumbeous Vireo: Medium-sized vireo with gray back, white throat and underparts, olive-gray sides, and yellow-washed flanks. Crown, nape, and face are gray; eye-rings appear as large, white spectacles. Wings are dark gray with two white bars. Tail is short with white edges. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Plumbeous Vireo: Breeds from southern Montana and southern Idaho southward to Mexico and Guatemala. Spends winters in Mexico and Central America. Preferred habitats include montane coniferous and mixed forests, and riparian woodlands in arid inter-montane basins.

Breeding and Nesting

Plumbeous Vireo: Three to five white eggs, spotted at larger end with red brown, are laid in a nest made of bark, grass, plant fibers and spider web, lined with fine grass and plant down, and built 4 to 30 feet above the ground near the tip of a branch in a tree or bush. Incubation ranges from 14 to 15 days and is carried out by both parents.

Foraging and Feeding

Plumbeous Vireo: Eats insects and some fruits and berries; forages and perches from mid to high levels in trees, gleaning insects from foliage or bark.

Vocalization

Plumbeous Vireo: Song is a varied, "chureeh, ch-ireet', ch-reeh, cg-ireet", often repeated. Call is a chattering "cheh-cheh-cheh, cheh", often accelerating.

Similar Species

Plumbeous Vireo: Gray Vireo is smaller, slimmer, and has a single wing-bar and faint eye-ring. Blue-headed and Cassin's vireos have green backs contrasting with darker hoods, and yellow flanks.

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Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Crown

The crown is the top part of the birds head.

Face

The front part of the head consisting of the bill, eyes, cheeks and chin.

Nape

Also called the hindneck or collar, it is the back of the neck where the head joins the body.

Riparian

Relating to or living or located on the bank of a natural watercourse (as a river) or sometimes of a lake or a tidewater.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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