The vireos are a group of small to medium-sized mostlyrestricted to the New World. They are typically dull-plumaged and greenish in color, the smaller species resembling wood warblers apart from their
heavier bills. They range in size from 10 centimeters and 8 grams, to up to 17 centimeters and 40 grams. Males of most species are persistent singers. Songs are usually rather simple, monotonous. All members
of the family eat some fruit but mostly insects and other arthropods. They take prey from leaves and branches; true vireos also flycatch.
In addition to species call "vireos", this family also includes greenlets, shrike-babblers, shrike-vireos.
Genus Cyclarhis
Peppershirke,_Black-billed Cyclarhis nigrirostris Found: Columbia, Ecuador
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Gary_Clark 2)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - J_Esteban_Berrío
Peppershrike,_Rufous-browed Cyclarhis gujanensis Found: Central and South America
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1, 2) Dario
Sanches - Brazil 3)
Wagner_Carlos_Lemes 4)
Carlos_Henrique
1) Sub-adult
Genus Hylophilus
Greenlet,_Ashy-headed Hylophilus pectoralis Found: Bolivia, Brazil, the Guianas
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1, 2) Nick Athanas - Brazil 2)
Claudio_Timm
Greenlet,_Brown-headed Hylophilus brunneiceps Found: northern Brazial and adjacent Columbia, Venezuela
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John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2)
Arthur Grosset - Brazil Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Eduardo_Arthur_Grosset
Greenlet,_Gray-chested Hylophilus semicinereus Found: mainly Brazil, Venezuela; also Bolivia, Peru
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Hector_Bottai - Brazil 2)
Nick Athanas 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Joao_Quental in Brazil
Greenlet,_Gray-eyed Hylophilus amaurocephalus Found: mainly eastern Brazil; also Bolivia
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Claudio_Timm - Brazil 2)
Nick Athanas - Brazil 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Bertrando_Campos in Brazil
Greenlet,_Lemon-chested Hylophilus thoracicus Found: mainly Bolivia, Brazil, the Guianas, Peru, Venezuela; also Columbia, Ecuador
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Francesco_Veronesi - Brazil 2)
Nick_Athanas - Brazil
Greenlet,_Olivaceous Hylophilus olivaceus Found: Ecuador, Peru
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Francesco_Veronesi - Ecuador 2, 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Roger_Ahlman
Greenlet,_Rufous-crowned Hylophilus poicilotis Found: southern Brazil, Paraguay
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Hector_Bottai - Brazil 2)
Nick Athanas - Brazil 3)
Carlos_de_Almeida - Brazil
Greenlet,_Scrub Hylophilus flavipes Found: Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela
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Brendan_Ryan - Columbia 2)
Jei_Pov - Columbia
Genus Pachysylvia
Greenlet,_Buff-cheeked Pachysylvia muscicapina Found: mainly Brazil, the Guinans, Venezuela; also Bolivia
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Hector_Bottai 2)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Anselmo d'Affonseca
Greenlet,_Dusky-capped Pachysylvia hypoxantha Found: Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
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Dominic_Sherony 2)
Joan_and_George
Greenlet,_Golden-fronted Pachysylvia aurantiifrons Found: Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad
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Francesco_Veronesi - Panama 2, 3)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Arthur_Grosset, Roger_Wasley
Greenlet,_Lesser Pachysylvia decurtata Found: Mexico to Columbia and Ecuador
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Nick Athanas - Mexico, Ecuador 3)
Francesco_Veronesi - Mexico
Greenlet,_Rufous-naped Pachysylvia semibrunnea Found: Columbia, Ecuador, perhaps Venezuela
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Alejandro_Tamayo - Columbia 2)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Trevor_Ellery in Columbioa
Genus Pteruthius
The Shrike-Babblers are found in Asia. They have a shrike-like hooked bill. They were previously placed in the babbler family
Timaliidae. Many of these shirke-babblers were previous consider subspecies of the White-browed Shrike-babbler - see map below.
Shrike-Babbler,_Black-eared Pteruthius melanotis Found: southern and eastern Asia
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1, 2, 3) Dibyendu_Ash
Shrike-Babbler,_Black-headed Pteruthius rufiventer Found: eastern Nepal to northwest Vietnam
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John & Jemi Holmes - China 2)
Jainy_Kuriakose - India 3)
Francesco_Veronesi - India 4)
Photomation
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Shrike-Babbler,_Blyth's Pteruthius aeralatus Found: southeast Asia
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Jyoti_Rani_Ahlawat - India 2)
Myron_Tay 3)
soumyajit_nandy 4)
Pkspks
1) Female 2, 3) Male
2)
P. a. ricketti 3)
P. a. validirostris
Shrike-Babbler,_Clicking Pteruthius intermedius Found: southern China
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Dave_Curtis - Thailand 2)
lonelyshrimp
Shrike-Babbler,_Dalat Pteruthius annamensis Found: southern Vietnam
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1, 2) Tim - Vietnam
Shrike-Babbler,_Green Pteruthius xanthochlorus Found: Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam
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Francesco_Veronesi 2)
Dibyendu_Ash - India
1) Female 2) Male
Shrike-Babbler,_Himalayan Pteruthius ripleyi Found: western Himalayas
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1, 2) Dibyendu_Ash
1) Female 2) Male
Shrike-Babbler,_Pied Pteruthius flaviscapis Found: Java
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Khaleb Yordan - Java 2)
Zulqarnain_Assiddiqi - Java 3)
Alex_Vargas - Thailand
1) Female and juvenile
2, 3) Male
Shrike-Babbler,_Trilling Pteruthius aenobarbus Found: Java, Indonesia
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1, 2) Lip Kee - Cibodas, Java, Indonesia
Genus Tunchiornis - 1 species
Also included in genu
Hylophilus
Greenlet,_Tawny-crowned Tunchiornis ochraceiceps also
Found: Mexico to Bolivia and Brazil
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Leslie_E_Tucci 2)
Dominic_Sherony - Belize 3)
Christopher_Canaday - Ecuador
Genus Vireo
Vireo, Bell's Vireo bellii Found: North America
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Steve Maslowski, USFWS 2)
Bill Bouton - California 3)
Jerry Oldenettel - New Mexico
1, 2) Western 3) Eastern
Vireo, Black-capped Vireo atricapilla Found: North America
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Mike Baranski 2)
Francesco Veronesi - Texas
3, 4) Birdfilms - Texas
Vireo, Black-whiskered Vireo altiloquus Found: The Americas
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Josh Noseworthy 2, 3) Jerry Oldenettel - Florida 4)
Ken Schneider - Florida
Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo solitarius Found: North
America and Central America
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Dominic
Sherony 2)
Chephas - Quebec, Canada 3)
Dick Daniels - New Hampshire
Vireo,_Blue_Mountain Vireo osburni Found: Jamaica
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Dominic_Sherony 2) Ron_Knight
Vireo,_Brown-capped Vireo leucophrys Found: Mexico south to Bolivia
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Nick Athanas - Ecuador 2)
Francesco_Veronesi - Ecuador 3)
Jerry_Oldenettel - Ecuador
Vireo, Cassin's Vireo cassinii Found: North America
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Rick Leche - Burnaby Lake Avian Research Centre 2)
Frank Lospalluto 3)
Jerry Oldenettel 4)
Julio Mulero - California
Vireo,_Choco Vireo masteri Found: western Columbia, northwest Ecuador
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Bob_Zaremba in Ecuador
Vireo,_Cozumel Vireo bairdi Found: island of Cozumel in Mexico
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Amy_McAndrews - Cozumel 2)
Luis_Guillermo
Vireo,_Cuban Vireo gundlachii Found: Cuba
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Francesco_Veronesi 2)
Allan_Hopkins 3)
Amy_McAndrews
Vireo,_Dwarf Vireo nelsoni Found: Mexico
.
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Amy_McAndrews 2)
Ron Knight
Vireo,_Flat-billed Vireo nanus Found: Dominican Republic, Haiti
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Mitch_Walters, Simon Best
Vireo,_Golden Vireo hypochryseus Found: Mexico
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Nick Athanas - Mexico
Vireo, Gray Vireo vicinior Found: North America
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Mark Watson - New Mexico 2)
Amy McAndrews - Mexico 3)
Tony_Morris
Vireo, Hutton's Vireo huttoni Found: North America
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Seabamirum 2)
Julio Mulero - California 3)
Bill Bouton - California 4)
Minette
Layne - Washington
Vireo,_Jamaican Vireo modestus Found: Jamaica
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John_Jennens 2)
Rafy_Rodriguez Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - instigatrix1, Tom_Johnson
Vireo,_Mangrove Vireo pallens Found: Mexico, Central America
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Jerry_Oldenettel 2)
Amy_McAndrews
Vireo,_Noronha Vireo gracilirostris Found: island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil
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Marco_Cruz 2)
Ivan_Sazima
Vireo, Philadelphia Vireo philadelphicus Found: North
America
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Brian McClure 2)
William Majoros 3, 4) Dominic Sherony
Vireo, Plumbeous Vireo plumbeus Found: North America
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BruceCyg - Colorado 2)
Jerry Oldenettel - New Mexico 3)
Julio Mulero - California
Vireo,_Puerto_Rican Vireo latimeri Found: Puerto Rico
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Rafy_Rodriguez 2)
Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Eduardo_Gloria_Archilla
Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo olivaceus Found: The
Americas
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Kent McFarland - Vermont
2, 3) Laura Gooch - Ohio
4, 5) Dario Sanches - Brazil 6)
Eugene Beckes - Montana 7)
Gary Mercier - Quebec
Vireo,_San_Andres Vireo caribaeus Found: San Andres island (off Nicaragua)
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - vukasin_marinovic
Vireo,_Slaty Vireo brevipennis Found: Mexico
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Nick Athanas - Mexico 2)
Peter_Bono
Vireo,_Tepui Vireo sclateri Found: the Guianas, Venezuela, nearby Brazil
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - John_Mittermeier
Vireo,_Thick-billed Vireo crassirostris Found: bahamas, Caymans, Caicos, Turks
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Cornell_Univ's_Neotropical_Birds_Online - Craig_Nash, Kathryn_Peiman
Vireo, Warbling Vireo gilvus Found: The Americas
Found: North America and Central America
Image by: 1) Seabrook Leckie 2)
Vireos are the Erphonis closest relative, but it is debateable whether or not they are in the
Vireonidae family.