Black-capped Vireo
Vireo atricapillaWoodhouse, SW, 1852
English (US) Black-capped Vireo
The Black-capped Vireo (Vireo atricapilla) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Vireonidae (Shrike-babblers, Erpornis, and Vireos) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds Oklahoma (formerly southern Kansas) to northern Mexico (Coahuila); winters to GuerreroRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Vireo atricapilla
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Black-capped Vireo
- Described by
- Woodhouse, SW, 1852
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Woodhouse, SW, 1852
- Type locality
- Rio San Pedro, 208 miles from San Antonio, on road to El Paso del Norte, Texas [= Devils River, near Sonora, Sutton County, Texas, fide Deignan, 1961, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 221, p. 511].
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6 p.60
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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