The voices of male vireos are a constant in the spring woodland, providing background music to the longer, prettier songs of tanagers and thrushes. Vireos tend to sing in bursts interrupted by short or long pauses.
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Vireo
//ˈvi.ɹi.oʊ//
Synonyms for "vireo"
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Finnish
1 entries- vireo noun (any species of genus Vireo)
French
1 entries- viréo noun (any species of genus Vireo)
Polish
2 entries- wireonek noun (any species of genus Vireo)
- wireonek noun (any species of family Vireonidae)
Russian
1 entries- ви́реон noun (any species of genus Vireo)
Spanish
1 entries- verderón noun (any species of genus Vireo)
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Uniquely American, the vireos are a group of some 46 foliage-gleaning forest birds with uncertain family connections. Vireo species are about equally divided between North and South America, with one, the Black-whiskered Vireo, largely restricted to the West Indies. Several vireos make long migratory journeys; all are nocturnal migrants.
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2012, Eloise Potter, Birds of the Carolinas, Easyread Large Edition, page 94, This is our only vireo that has two white wing bars, yellow spectacles, and yellow sides.
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Family Vireonidae Vireos The vireos are slim grayish green birds that stay high up in the trees most of the time.
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