Vireonovye [1] ( lat. Vireonidae ) - a family of birds from the order Passeriformes .
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 Yellow-throated Vireon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Description
Small (10-18 cm long) shrubby and forest birds, but with strong legs and a strong beak. The color of the plumage is mainly greenish brown above and yellowish or white below. There is no sexual dimorphism. In appearance, some species resemble warblers, others - shrikes. They feed mainly on insects, some on fruits. Hanging cup-shaped nests are built on horizontal branches. In clutch 2-5 eggs.
The Vireonovs are part of the New World passerine group; they have 10 primary fly-birds (9 of all Old World passerines). Vireonic prevail mainly in North and Central America. A lot of them on the islands of the West Indies.
Classification
As of June 2018, the family includes 6 genera and 63 species [2] :
- Cyclarhis Swainson, 1824 - Parrot Vireons
- Erpornis Blyth, 1844
- Hylophilus Temminck, 1822 - South American Vireons , or Viereons
- Pteruthius Swainson, 1832 - Shrike Thymelia
- Vireo Vieillot, 1808 - Vireons , or Real Vireons
- Vireolanius Bonaparte, 1850 - Shrike Vireons
Notes
- ↑ Boehme RL , Flint V. Ye. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Under total. ed. Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 426. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Shrikes, vireos, shrike-babblers : [ eng ] / F. Gill & D. Donsker (Eds). // IOC World Bird List (v 8.2). - 2018. - DOI : 10.14344 / IOC.ML.8.2 . (Retrieved July 17, 2018) .