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 LC    Thick-billed Vireo* Id (Atlas):
    Vireo crassirostris

Description (10)
Image of Thick-billed Vireo
 

Other Names (World)
Thick-billed Vireo, Large-billed Vireo

Family
Vireonidae (Vireos)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bryant, 1859)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, subtropical/Tropical Moist shrubland.

Range (Guide)
Bahamas, Cayman Islands (B), Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (27)...)

 
Thick-billed Vireo (Vireo crassirostris) [XC331617]
     by Andrew Spencer from Lucayan Estates, West Grand Bahama, Bahamas (song)

 
Thick-billed Vireo (Vireo crassirostris) [XC775678]
     by Paul Driver from Andros, Bahamas, Bahamas (song, quiet calls)

Subspecies
This genus and Hylophilus sometimes placed together in a subfamily Vireoninae. Closely related to eight other scrub-dwelling vireos, namely White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus), Mangrove Vireo (Vireo pallens), Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi), San Andres Vireo (Vireo caribaeus), Jamaican Vireo (Vireo modestus), Cuban Vireo (Vireo gundlachii), Puerto Rican Vireo (Vireo latimeri) and Flat-billed Vireo (Vireo nanus). Probably closest to White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus), which has been treated as conspecific. Subspecies approximans of Mangrove Vireo (Vireo pallens) has sometimes been placed with this species, but is morphologically and vocally distinctive, and may represent a separate species.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

  • crassirostris (Bryant, 1859)   -  Bahama Is.
  • stalagmium Buden, 1985   -  Caicos Is.
  • tortugae Richmond, 1917   -  Tortuga I, off north-western Hispaniola.
  • cubensis Kirkconnell & Garrido, 2000   -  Cayo Paredón Grande, off northern Cuba.
  • alleni Cory, 1886   -  Cayman Is.
  • approximans Ridgway, 1884   -  Old Providence I (east of Nicaragua).



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Thick-billed Vireo (Vireo crassirostris) - 10 files


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