Definition of Blue-headed vireo

1. Noun. Common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head.

Exact synonyms: Vireo Solitarius Solitarius
Generic synonyms: Vireo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue-headed Vireo

blue-eye
blue-eyed
blue-eyed(a)
blue-eyed African daisy
blue-eyed Mary
blue-eyed boy
blue-eyed boys
blue-eyed soul
blue-eyes
blue-green
blue-green alga
blue-green algae
blue-green bacteria
blue-green bacterium
blue-headed vireo (current term)
blue-light special
blue-nosed
blue-on-blue
blue-pencil
blue-plate special
blue-plate specials
blue-print
blue-prints
blue-red
blue-ribbon(a)
blue-rinse brigade
blue-sided leaf frog
blue-sided leaf frogs
blue-skies

Literary usage of Blue-headed vireo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"Two white wing-bars, white throat and breast, yellow sides and flanks and spurious first primary are common to the blue-headed vireo and the White-eyed ..."

2. Birds of North America by Jim Roetzel (2007)
"blue-headed vireo (opposite) Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio Of the three different "Solitary Vireo" species, the blue-headed vireo is the most colorful ..."

3. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"Rocky Mountain region, breeding from Mexico to Dakota and Wyoming. Like the blue-headed vireo but with the yellowish wholly replaced by leaden gray. ..."

4. Nests and Eggs of North American Birds by Oliver Davie (1889)
"blue-headed vireo. Hab. Eastern North America, north to Fort Simpson (on the ... The nest of the blue-headed vireo is similar in construction to others of ..."

5. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"blue-headed vireo. Solitary Vireo. Vireo solitarius. ... Like the Blue-headed Vireo but with the yellowish wholly replaced by leaden gray. ..."

6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"blue-headed vireo.— Regular migrant, common May 10 to 20, and September 17 to October 22. 240. Mniotilta varia. BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER. ..."

7. Guide to the Systematic Use of the North American Bird and Nature Study: A by Harold Brough Shinn, Gerard Alan Abbott (1912)
"... suspended at the end of a maple limb ten feet from the trunk of a tree twenty-five feet from the ground. 629. blue-headed vireo. ..."

8. The Wilson Bulletin by Wilson Ornithological Club, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Wilson Ornithological Society (1904)
"blue-headed vireo. Tolerably common migrant. 112. Vireo noveboracensis.—White-eyed Vireo. A pair bred in Bronx Park. 113. Mniotilta varia. ..."

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