[YELLOW-GREEN VIREO]

Vireo flavoviridis

Status: No accepted records.

Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), three in Mexico and Central America, and one, flavoviridis, breeding in south Texas and vagrant to the southern US from California to Florida (Brewer et al 2024).

Comments: A bird identified as a Yellow-green Vireo was reportedly collected at Long Pine, Brown Co by J.M. Bates (no date given) and sent to UNSM (Barbour 1896). This specimen cannot be located, however (Thomas Labedz, personal communication), and seems likely to have been in fact a Philadelphia Vireo.

This is a strongly migratory species, and so it is not inconceivable that an overshoot migrant might appear on the Great Plains. There is only one such record, however, that for Baca Co, Colorado Jun 2019 (eBird.org, accessed Jul 2025).

Abbreviations

UNSM: University of Nebraska State Museum

Literature Cited

AviList Core Team, 2025. AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025. https://doi.org/10.2173/avilist.v2025.

Barbour, E.H. 1896. The occurrence in Nebraska of Vireo flavoviridis. Auk 13: 263.

Brewer, D., D.A. Christie, and G.M. Kirwan. 2024. Yellow-green Vireo (Vireo flavoviridis), version 1.1. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, E. de Juana, and S. M. Billerman, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.yegvir.01.1.

Recommended Citation

Silcock, W.R., and J.G. Jorgensen. 2025. Yellow-green Vireo (Vireo flavoviridis). In Birds of Nebraska — Online. www.BirdsofNebraska.org

Birds of Nebraska – Online

Updated 18 Jul 2025