About the Plumbeous Vireo
The plumbeous vireo is a small North American songbird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found from the U. S. states of Montana and South Dakota south to Honduras.
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The plumbeous vireo is 12.4 to 13.8 cm (4.9 to 5.4 in) long and weighs about 12 to 20 g (0.42 to 0.71 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies V. p. plumbeus have a neutral gray crown and nape, a wide white stripe above the lores, a wide white eye-ring, a dusky stripe through the eye-ring, and neutral gray ear coverts. Their upperparts are neutral gray with an olive-green tinge on the rump. Their wing coverts are blackish gray with whitish tips that show as two wing bars. Their remiges are blackish gray with pale olive gray edges. Voice: The male plumbeous vireo's primary song is a "jerky series of burry phrases, separated by pauses often alternates between ascending and descending phrases: ch'reeh ch'roo ch'reeh ch'roo or ch'ree chi-ri'eet ch'ree ch'ree-oo". Another song is a "complicated jumble of chattering, warbling, and singing in rapid and apparently random combinations". The species' calls include an "rasping chatter...
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What the Plumbeous Vireo sounds like
Where it lives
Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, El Salvador.
When to see it
Peak activity in May · a summer visitor species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Cassin's VireoVireo cassiniiThe vireo is 11–14 cm (4–6 inches) long.
Philadelphia VireoVireo philadelphicusAdults are mainly olive-brown on the upperparts with yellow underparts; they have dark eyes and a grey crown.
Yellow-green VireoVireo flavoviridisThe adult yellow-green vireo is 14–14.7 cm in length and weighs 18.5 g.
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