plural vireos
: any of various small insectivorous American oscine birds (family Vireonidae, especially genus Vireo) that are chiefly olivaceous and grayish in color
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The project is expected to provide habitat for two endangered birds, the least Bell’s vireo and light-footed ridgeway’s rail, and offer animals access to conserved land areas for mammals such as the American badger, mountain lion, coyote, bobcat, mule deer and gray fox.
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Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
The unsuspecting vireo will then raise the cowbird chicks, which grow faster than its own and outcompete the vireo nestlings for food.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
But the bird also has to contend with the brown-headed cowbird, which is known to lay its eggs in other bird’s nests, including the least bell’s vireo’s.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
Similar success has been reported by a cowbird control program at Fort Hood, Texas, which has become a retreat for the black-capped vireo.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
In the early 1980s, half the vireo nests there were parasitized.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Middlesex County: Several Cape May warblers at Waitt’s Mount in Malden, a lark sparrow at Danehy Park in Cambridge, a laughing gull at the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham, and a Philadelphia vireo at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
Benner says that important conservation changes have been made due to bird recordings, like the decision to restore bird habitat in the Devil’s Gate Dam restoration project after recordings of an endangered species, the least Bell’s vireo, were made at Hahamongna Watershed Park in Pasadena.
—Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
Martha’s Vineyard: An American bittern in Aquinnah, a Philadelphia vireo near Daggetts Pond in West Tisbury, and five common ravens in Tisbury.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2024
The unsuspecting vireo will then raise the cowbird chicks, which grow faster than its own and outcompete the vireo nestlings for food.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
But the bird also has to contend with the brown-headed cowbird, which is known to lay its eggs in other bird’s nests, including the least bell’s vireo’s.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
Similar success has been reported by a cowbird control program at Fort Hood, Texas, which has become a retreat for the black-capped vireo.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
In the early 1980s, half the vireo nests there were parasitized.
—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Middlesex County: Several Cape May warblers at Waitt’s Mount in Malden, a lark sparrow at Danehy Park in Cambridge, a laughing gull at the Cambridge Reservoir in Waltham, and a Philadelphia vireo at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
Benner says that important conservation changes have been made due to bird recordings, like the decision to restore bird habitat in the Devil’s Gate Dam restoration project after recordings of an endangered species, the least Bell’s vireo, were made at Hahamongna Watershed Park in Pasadena.
—Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
Martha’s Vineyard: An American bittern in Aquinnah, a Philadelphia vireo near Daggetts Pond in West Tisbury, and five common ravens in Tisbury.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
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vireo
noun
vir·eo
ˈvir-ē-ˌō 
plural vireos
: any of various small insect-eating American songbirds that are chiefly olive-green or grayish in color
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