yellow-throated vireo

[yel-oh-throh-tid]

noun

1. an olive-green vireo, Vireo flavifrons, of eastern North America, having a bright yellow throat and breast.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow-throated vireo¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

A yellow-throated vireo and a cedar waxwing also splashed in our stream.

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In 222 pages, augmented by maps and the work of five professional photographers, Janssen relays precisely where one is most likely to see, say, a yellow-throated vireo, in Lake Maria State Park.

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Song may be compared with the finest efforts of the Blue-headed Vireo with the added charm and mellowness of the song of the Yellow-throated Vireo.

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The solitary vireo also builds a pensile nest, swung from the crotch of a branch, not so high from the ground as the yellow-throated vireo's nor so exquisitely finished, but still a beautiful little structure of pine-needles, plant-fibre, dry leaves, and twigs, all lichen-lined and bound and rebound with coarse spiders' webs.

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Yellow-throated Vireo: Vireo flavifrons Vieillot.—This is a rare and local summer resident in deciduous forest and woodland in eastern Kansas.

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