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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Saint Andrew Vireo, San Andrés Vireo, San Andres Vireo, St. Andrew Vireo
Common Names in French:
Viréo De San Andrès
Common Names in German:
Karibenvireo
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, mangrove forests, arid lowland scrubs • Zoogeographic Region: Isla Providencia and Isla San Andres • Foraging Strata: Midstory • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology: Highest densities occur in cocoa plantations with scattered
trees
and scrub
, dry lowland woodland and inland mangrove swamps, but lower densities occur in mesophytic
woodland and brushy pastures1. Within this wide range
of habitats
it has a preference for areas of dense understorey vegetation1. Breeding territory size is 0.5 ha. Nests
with young have been recorded in June, and are built in, or suspended from, the forks of branches, in both mangroves
and shrubby bushes. It gleans actively for caterpillars and other arthropods
.[1]
List of Habitats:1.7Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide
Level
14.2Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- Perching Birds
- Genus:
Vireo
()
- Vieillot 1808 Hist.Nat.Ois.Am.Sept. 1["1807"] p.83
- Specific name:
caribaeus
- Bond & Meyer de Schauensee 1942 Not.Nat.no.96 p.1
- Scientific name: - Vireo caribaeus Bond & Meyer de Schauensee 1942
- Specific name:
caribaeus
- Bond & Meyer de Schauensee 1942 Not.Nat.no.96 p.1
- Genus:
Vireo
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Vireo
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 125 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
V. altiloquus (Black-Whiskered Greenlet) · V. altiloquus altiloguus · V. altiloquus altiloquus (Black-Whiskered Greenlet) · V. altiloquus barbadensis · V. altiloquus barbatulus · V. altiloquus canescens · V. altiloquus grandior · V. antiloquus · V. atricapilla (Black-Capped Greenlet) · V. atricapillus (Black-Capped Greenlet) · V. bairdi (Cozumel Vireo) · V. bellii (Bell's Greenlet) · V. bellii arizonae (Arizona Bell's Vireo) · V. bellii bellii (Bell's Greenlet) · V. bellii medius · V. bellii pusillus (Least Bell's Vireo) · V. brevipennis (Slaty Vireo) · V. calidris · V. caribaeus (Saint Andrew Vireo) · V. carmioli (Yellow-Winged Vireo) · V. cassinii (CassinÃŒs Vireo) · V. cassinii cassinii (CassinÃŒs Vireo) · V. cassinii lucasanus · V. chivi · V. chivi vividior · V. crassirostris (Thick-Billed Vireo) · V. crassirostris alleni · V. crassirostris approximans (Thick-Billed Vireo) · V. crassirostris crassirostris (Thick-Billed Vireo) · V. crassirostris tortugae · V. flavifrons (Yellow-Throated Greenlet) · V. flaviviridis · V. flavoviridis (Yellow-Green Vireo) · V. flavoviridis flavoviridis (Yellow-Green Vireo) · V. flavoviridis forreri · V. gilvus (Swainson's Warbling Greenlet) · V. gilvus brewsteri · V. gilvus gilvus (Swainson's Warbling Greenlet) · V. gilvus leucophrys · V. gilvus leucopolius · V. gilvus swainsoni · V. gilvus swainsonii · V. gilvus victoriae · V. gracilirostris (Noronha Vireo) · V. griseus (White-Eyed Greenlet) · V. griseus bermudianus · V. griseus griseus (White-Eyed Greenlet) · V. griseus maynardi · V. griseus micrus · V. griseus noveboracensis · V. griseus perquisitor (White-Eyed Vireo) · V. gundlachi · V. gundlachii (Cuban Vireo) · V. gundlachii gundlachii · V. gundlachii orientalis · V. huttoni (Hutton's Greenlet) · V. huttoni carolinae (Hutton's Vireo) · V. huttoni cognatus · V. huttoni huttoni (Hutton's Greenlet) · V. huttoni insularis · V. huttoni mexicanus · V. huttoni oberholseri · V. huttoni obscurus · V. huttoni stephensi · V. huttoni unitti · V. huttoni vulcani · V. hypochryseus (Golden Vireo) · V. hypochryseus hypochryseus (Golden Vireo) · V. hypochryseus nitidus · V. hypochryseus sordidus · V. latimeri (Puerto Rican Vireo) · V. laurae · V. leucophrys (Brown-Capped Vireo) · V. leucophrys amauronotus · V. leucophrys josephae · V. leucophrys laetissimus · V. leucophrys leucophrys (Brown-Capped Vireo) · V. leucophrys mirandae · V. leucophrys strenuus · V. magister (Yucatan Vireo) · V. magister caymanensis · V. magister magister · V. masteri (ChocÓ Vireo) · V. modestus (Jamaican White-Eyed Vireo) · V. nanus (Flat-Billed Vireo) · V. nelsoni (Dwarf Vireo) · V. ochraceus · V. olflavoviridis · V. olivaceous · V. olivaceus (Yellow-Green Greenlet) · V. olivaceus chivi · V. olivaceus diversus · V. olivaceus flavoviridis · V. olivaceus griseobarbatus · V. olivaceus olivaceus (Yellow-Green Greenlet) · V. olivaceus pectoralis · V. olivaceus solimoensis · V. olivaceus ssp · V. olivaceus vividior · V. osburni (Blue Mountain Vireo)
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Further Reading
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
- Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Vireo caribaeus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 8, 2006.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3846980
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-563680
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 563680
- IUCN ID: 23009
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9529
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
