Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Blue Mountain Vireo
Common Names in French:
Viréo D'osburn
Common Names in German:
Osburnvireo
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: montaine evergreen forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Minimum Elevation: 600 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,000 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Jamaica • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper tropical: higher slopes, 900-1,600 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 42 meters (0 to 138 feet).[1]
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
14.3Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations
14.6Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
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- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
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- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
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- Birds
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- Perching Birds
- Genus:
Vireo
()
- Vieillot 1808 Hist.Nat.Ois.Am.Sept. 1["1807"] p.83
- Specific name:
osburni
- (Sclater,PL) 1861 PZS Pt1 p.72pl.14 fig.2
- Scientific name: - Vireo osburni (Sclater,PL) 1861
- Specific name:
osburni
- (Sclater,PL) 1861 PZS Pt1 p.72pl.14 fig.2
- 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
There are approximately 125 species 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 osburni. 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.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- 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.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3846986
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-563690
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13850221
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 563690
- IUCN ID: 23012
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9530
Footnotes
- Mean = -114.500 meters (-375.656 feet), Standard Deviation = 221.320 based on 2 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
