Green Shrike-Vireo (Vireolanius pulchellus)
About the Green Shrike-Vireo
The green shrike-vireo (Vireolanius pulchellus) is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Mexico and every Central American country. The green shrike-vireo was originally described in 1859 as Vireolanius pulchellus, its present binomial. However, for a time in the early twentieth century it was placed in genus Smaragdolanius and its own family, Vireolaniidae. By the 1970s Smaragdolanius had been merged into Vireolanius and included in the family Vireonidae. The green shrike-vireo has these four subspecies: V. p. ramosi Phillips, AR, 1991 V. p. pulchellus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1859 V. p. verticalis Ridgway, 1885 V. p. viridiceps Ridgway, 1903
A real field recording of the Green Shrike-Vireo. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
3 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama · xeno-canto lists 71 recordings for this species in total.
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Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.