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The gray vireo (Vireo vicinior) is a small North American passerine bird.It breeds from the southwestern United States and northern Baja California to western Texas.It is a migrant, wintering in northwestern Mexico, in western Sonora state, and the southern Baja Peninsula in Baja California Sur; it remains all year only in Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas.
The greater roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico. This list of birds of New Mexico are the species documented in the U.S. state of New Mexico and accepted by the New Mexico Bird Records Committee (NMBRC). As of August 2022, 552 species were included in the official list. Of them, 176 are on the review list (see below), five species have been introduced to North America, and three have ...
Vireo is a genus of small passerine birds restricted to the New World. Vireos typically have dull greenish plumage (hence the name, from Latin virere , "to be green"), but some are brown or gray on the back and some have bright yellow underparts.
Gray vireo, Vireo vicinior (n) Hutton's vireo, Vireo huttoni (n) Yellow-throated vireo, Vireo flavifrons; Cassin's vireo, Vireo cassinii; Blue-headed vireo, Vireo solitarius (A) Plumbeous vireo, Vireo plumbeus (n) Philadelphia vireo, Vireo philadelphicus (A) Warbling vireo, Vireo gilvus (n) Red-eyed vireo, Vireo olivaceus; Yellow-green vireo ...
The vireos are a group of small to medium-sized passerine birds restricted to the New World, though a few other species in the family are found in Asia. They are typically greenish in color and resemble wood-warblers apart from their heavier bills. Bell's vireo, Vireo bellii; Gray vireo, Vireo vicinior; Hutton's vireo, Vireo huttoni (O)
Observers have commented on the vireo-like behaviour of the Pteruthius shrike-babblers, but apparently no-one suspected the biogeographically unlikely possibility of vireo relatives in Asia. Some recent taxonomic treatements, such as the IOC taxonomy followed here, include Pteruthius and Erpornis in Vireionidae, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] whereas other place ...
New Mexico: A History (U of Oklahoma Press, 2013) 384pp; Simmons, Marc. New Mexico: An Interpretive History, 221 pages, University of New Mexico Press 1988, ISBN 0-8263-1110-5, short introduction; Szasz, Ferenc M. Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth (2nd ed. 2006). Weber, David J. “The Spanish Borderlands, Historiography Redux.”
The adult yellow-green vireo differs from the red-eyed vireo in its much yellower underparts, lack of a black border to the duller gray crown, yellower upperparts and different eye color. Some individuals are difficult to separate, even in the hand, from the similar red-eyed vireo , with which it is sometimes considered conspecific .