Vireo brevipennis

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid montane scrubs, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests • Minimum Elevation: 1,200 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,100 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Middle montane: mountains, middle range, 1,600-2,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: High

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Vireo brevipennis (Sclater, 1858)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

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

• 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. 589.
• Variation in the jaw musculature of the avian family Vireonidae / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1981. url p. 11, p. 18, p. 3, p. 36, p. 47, p. 52, p. 9.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Vireo brevipennis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2009. Vireo brevipennis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, &quot;Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds,&quot; in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3796
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-563679
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2487430
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 563679
• IUCN ID: 248694
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9532

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