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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Times

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.

From Project Gutenberg

The yellow-throated vireo partakes of all the family characteristics, but, in addition to these, it eclipses all its relatives in the brilliancy of its coloring and in the art of nest-building, which it has brought to a state of hopeless perfection.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg