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Red-eyed Vireo

Vireo olivaceus · Family Vireonidae

Vireo olivaceus

Family Vireonidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Vireonidae
GBIF occurrence records
5,928,144
Countries and territories with records
64
Red-eyed Vireo
John Benson from Madison WI · Vireo olivaceus -Madison -Wisconsin -USA-8.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · John Benson from Madison WI · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Vireo_olivaceus_-_Red-eyed_Vireo_XC241104.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 5,928,144 occurrence records from 64 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (75.7%), Canada (18.9%) and Brazil (1.3%); together they account for 95.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.4% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Vireo olivaceus combines the genus name Vireo with the species epithet olivaceus. The Warbla app catalog lists 33 species of the genus Vireo; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Vireo gilvus, Vireo griseus and Vireo solitarius.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 60 species of the family Vireonidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 18.7 times the family average (317,557). The family Vireonidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Vireonidae

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