Up until four years ago, that was a "solitary vireo.". From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The database says I recorded a "plumbeous vireo" in 1991. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
(Soundbite of bird chirping) MANN: As I sit, a blue-headed vireo begins to sing. From Wordnik.com. [A Leaf Falls In The Forest. Here's What It Sounds Like] Reference
After it a vireo broke into tremulous melody, gushing higher, fuller, stronger, clearer. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
Yellow-throated vireo and other migratory songbirds depend on the bottomland hardwood forest for resting and shelter. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)] Reference
The threatened golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo inhabit northwestern areas where the Ashe juniper is present. From Wordnik.com. [Southwest Plateau and Plains Dry Steppe and Shrub Province (Bailey)] Reference
Somewhere along the way, the people who came up with the names of birds decided that they should be really cool words, like grackle and vireo. From Wordnik.com. [Birding season: No grousing or sniping] Reference
A few land birds are found inland on Fernando de Noronha, including the endemic Noronha vireo (vireo gracilirostris), which is abundant in forests and trees. From Wordnik.com. [Fernanda de Noronha-Atol das Rocas moist forests] Reference
The vireo sings when otherwise the woods are still. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment] Reference
It was the Bell vireo, an entirely new species to me. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
The vireo and many others turn out beautiful cup-like nests. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
The vireo had stopped singing and was swinging on a bough above them. From Wordnik.com. [Sandy] Reference
One of the few birds I know that sings through the long midday is the vireo. From Wordnik.com. [The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment] Reference
The nest of the red-eyed vireo is one of the most artfully placed in the wood. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
While I am on the subject of marriage I may as well mention the white-eyed vireo. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
Why does every red-eyed vireo sing in one way, and every white-eyed vireo in another?. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
Not a vireo was seen above Graymont, which has an altitude of nearly ten thousand feet. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
Diane Madl, a naturalist leading the group, said she thought the bird sounded like a vireo. From Wordnik.com. [Sports news from standardspeaker.com] Reference
The owl was blind in both eyes and the vireo had a fractured hip and was sightless in one eye. From Wordnik.com. [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference
Suddenly the stillness was broken by a vireo note, and I said to myself with surprise, A red-eye?. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
A red-eyed vireo suddenly appeared in the branches above me, holding an immense green worm in his beak. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
Like all the vireo tribe, they suspend their tiny baskets from the fork or crotch of a horizontal twig. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
A little afterward, a red-eyed vireo alighted on his other favorite perch, and he showed no resentment. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
The wood-pewee was unheard, and even the vireo seemed to have finished his endless song and gone his way. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
At this the vireo burst into such mocking, derisive laughter of song that they both looked up and smiled. From Wordnik.com. [Sandy] Reference
Acquaintance will probably make it as characteristic and unmistakable as any of our four other vireo songs. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
The warbling vireo is admirably named; there is no one of our birds that can more properly be said to warble. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
It did not look like a wren, nor act like one, but, rather, its form and conduct were like those of a vireo; and. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
Of all the malaperts of birddom none excel and few equal the white-eyed vireo for volubility and downright audacity. From Wordnik.com. [Our Bird Comrades] Reference
The hummingbird studs the outside of its nest with lichens, and the vireo drapes a cobweb curtain around her fairy cup. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference
In these two respects it suggests the solitary vireo, though it never reproduces the indescribably sweet cadence, the real. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
Another curious visitor was a red-eyed vireo, who, being received in the same innocent and childlike way, also took his leave. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
From a study of the manual I set him down as probably the white-eyed vireo, -- a conjecture which further investigation confirmed. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
Then a crow mamma created a diversion by helping herself to an egg for her baby's breakfast, when a robin and a vireo -- curious pair!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
The white-eyed vireo is a singer of astonishing spirit, and his sudden changes from one theme to another are sometimes almost startling. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
The waxwing and the vireo have the same vocal organs; why should the first do nothing but whisper, while the second is so loud and voluble?. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
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