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 LC    Plumbeous Vireo* Id (Atlas):
    Vireo plumbeus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Plumbeous Vireo, Solitary Vireo

Family
Vireonidae (Vireos)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
Coues, 1866

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest, temperate forest. From 1,000 - 3,100 m.

Range (Guide)
Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 2,700,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (70)...)

 
Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus) [XC483015]
     by Phoenix Birder from Big Rock Creek Road, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, United States (song)

 
Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus) [XC385656]
     by Ted Floyd from Sheelite Canyon, Huachuca Mtns, Arizona, United States (song)

Subspecies
Probably forms a superspecies with Cassin's Vireo (Vireo cassinii) and Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) and the three were formerly treated as conspecific, but molecular-genetic studies indicate that they merit treatment as separate species. Some authorities suggest that southern subspecies notius and montanus may both warrant elevation to rank of full species.

Proposed subspecies jacksoni (south-central Montana) is synonymized with nominate. In Mexico, proposed subspecies pinicolus (described from Mound Valley, in Chihuahua) and repetens (from Tixtla, in Guerrero) likewise treated as synonyms of nominate.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • plumbeus Coues, 1866   -  Breeds west-central USA (southern Idaho, Wyoming, south-eastern Montana and south-western South Dakota south to eastern California, central Arizona and western Texas) south to south-western Mexico (to Guerrero and south-central Oaxaca). Winters from southern Arizona (rarely) south through western Mexico.
  • gravis Phillips, AR, 1991   -  Breeds east-central Mexico (northern and western Puebla, probably north-eastern Hidalgo). Winters also south to south-eastern Veracruz.
  • notius van Tyne, 1933   -  Belize.
  • montanus van Rossem, 1933   -  Southern Mexico (extreme south-eastern Oaxaca, Chiapas) south to Honduras.
  • pinicolus van Rossem, 1934   -  Mountains of north-western Mexico (Sonora to Durango and Zacatecas).
  • repetens van Rossem, 1939   -  Oak-pinyon-juniper belt of central Mexico.



References
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Files:
JPG files for Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus) - 10 files


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