Vireo altiloquus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, tropical lowland evergreen forest, mangrove forests • Maximum Elevation: 900 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,400 meters (0 to 14,436 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Diet

 

Primarily:

• Insects

• Fruit

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Nest Location: Mid-story/canopy nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 2-3
• Length of Incubation : ? days
• Days to Fledge : ?
• Number of Broods: ?

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Vireo altiloquus (Vieillot, 1808) • Vireo altiloquus Vieillot 1808

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

Red Eyed Vireo

Members of the genus Vireo

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 53 species and subspecies in this genus:

V. altiloquus (Black-Whiskered Greenlet) · V. altiloquus altiloquus (Black-Whiskered Vireo) · V. atricapilla (Black-Headed Greenlet) · V. atricapillus (Black-Headed Greenlet) · V. bairdi (Cozumel Vireo) · V. bellii (Bell's Greenlet) · V. bellii arizonae (Arizona Bell's Vireo) · V. bellii bellii (Bell's Vireo) · V. bellii pusillus (Bell's Vireo) · V. brevipennis (Slaty Vireo) · V. caribaeus (Saint Andrew Vireo) · V. carmioli (Yellow-Winged Vireo) · V. cassinii (CassinÌs Vireo) · V. cassinii cassinii (CassinÌs Vireo) · V. crassirostris (Thick-Billed Vireo) · V. crassirostris approximans (Thick-Billed Vireo) · V. crassirostris crassirostris (Thick-Billed Vireo) · V. flavifrons (Yellow-Throated Greenlet) · V. flavoviridis (Yellow-Green Vireo) · V. flavoviridis flavoviridis (Yellow-Green Vireo) · V. gilvus (Swainson's Warbling Greenlet) · V. gilvus gilvus (Swainson's Warbling Greenlet) · (Noronha Vireo) · V. griseus (White-Eyed Greenlet) · V. griseus griseus (White-Eyed Greenlet) · V. griseus perquisitor (White-Eyed Vireo) · V. gundlachii (Cuban Vireo) · V. huttoni (Hutton's Greenlet) · V. huttoni carolinae (Hutton's Vireo) · V. huttoni huttoni (Hutton's Greenlet) · V. hypochryseus (Golden Vireo) · V. hypochryseus hypochryseus (Golden Vireo) · V. latimeri (Puerto Rican Vireo) · V. leucophrys (Brown-Capped Vireo) · V. leucophrys leucophrys (Brown-Capped Vireo) · V. magister (Yucatan Vireo) · V. masteri (Choc? Vireo) · V. modestus (Jamaican White Eyed Vireo) · V. nanus (Flat-Billed Vireo) · V. nelsoni (Dwarf Vireo) · V. olivaceus (Red Eyed Vireo) · V. olivaceus olivaceus (Yellow-Green Greenlet) · V. osburni (Blue Mountain Vireo) · V. pallens (Mangrove Vireo) · V. pallens pallens (Mangrove Vireo) · V. philadelphicus (Brotherly-Love Greenlet) · V. plumbeus (Plumbeous Vireo) · V. plumbeus plumbeus (Plumbeous Vireo) · V. solitarius (Blue Headed Vireo) · V. solitarius alticola (Blue-Headed Vireo) · V. solitarius solitarius (Blue-Headed Flycatcher) · V. swainsonii (Western Warbling Vireo) · V. vicinior (Gray Greenlet)

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Further Reading

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• A check list of North-American birds by Elliott Coues. Salem, Mass.: F.W. Putnam, 1879. url .
• A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants, by J.E. Harting. .. London, J.C. Nimmo, 1901. url p. 363, p. 520.
• A history of North American birds / by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. 1 1905 Boston: Little, Brown, 1905. url figure , p. 360.
• A manual of North American birds by Robert Ridgway. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1887. url .
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url p. 598.
• A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 618.
• Advances in herpetology and evolutionary biology: essays in honor of Ernest E. Williams / Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1983. url p. 509, p. 725.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 169.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. url p. 466.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 1859 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 72.
• Birds of the Bahama islands; containing many birds new to the islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American species. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, The author, 1880. url p. 82.
• Birds of the Colorado Valley: a repository of scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology / by Elliott Coues. Washington: G.P.O., 1878. url p. 492, p. 635.
• Birds of the Colorado valley. .. scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology. Washington, Gov't print. off., 1878. url p. 492.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 354, p. 461, p. 482, p. 517, p. 758.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1955 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 303, p. 306, p. 313, p. 318, p. 345.
• Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad: Dept. of Agriculture, 1914-1927. url p. 128.
• Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 592.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1935 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1935. url p. 146, p. 147, p. 150.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 473, p. 660.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 598, p. 806.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 122, p. 125.
• Eggs of North American birds; by Chas. J. Maynard. Illustrated with ten hand-colored plates. Boston, De Wolfe, Fiske & co., 1890. url p. 123.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 218.
• Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds, and a check list of North American birds, by Elliott Coues. Salem [Mass.]Naturalists' Agency, 1874. url p. 25.
• Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America.: Intended to contain descriptions and figures of all North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. / By John Cassin, member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; of the American Philosophical Society; of the Horticultural Society of Pennsylvania; of the National Institute; of the South 1862 Philadelphia:: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. url p. 153.
• Insects of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York, The Academy. url p. 494.
• Jobos Bay National Estuarine Sanctuary Management Plan. San Juan, P.R.: Dept. of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [1983] url p. 75.
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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 12, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3823
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179018
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2487430
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179016
• IUCN ID: 248690
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBW01250
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178179

Footnotes

1. Mean = 304.590 meters (999.311 feet), Standard Deviation = 741.790 based on 10,142 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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