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Hutton's Vireo

Vireo huttoniOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Vireos (Vireonidae)
Hutton's Vireo Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: All-purpose
  • Eye Color: Brown.
  • Head Pattern: Plain, Eyering (complete or broken)
  • Crown Color: Olive-gray
  • Forehead Color: Olive-gray
  • Nape Color: Olive-gray
  • Throat Color: Olive-gray
  • Cere color: No Data
Hutton's Vireo Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 12-13 cm (4.75-5 in)
  • Weight: 11 g (0.4 oz)
  • Size: Size 1. Very Small (3 - 5 in)
  • Color: White, Gray, Olive, Buff
  • Underparts: Buff-olive
  • Upperparts: Olive-gray
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid
Hutton's Vireo Flight Illustration

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Weak fluttering flights of short duration.
  • Wingspan Range: 18-20 cm (7-8 in)
  • Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Black
  • Under Tail: Black
  • Leg Color: Blue-gray
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Family Vireo (Sylviidae)_blue
Species Vireo huttoni
Length4.75 - 5 Inches
Wingspan7.5 Inches

Hutton's Vireo

Hutton's Vireo: Small vireo, olive-gray upperparts, buff to yellow underparts. Eye ring is white, broken above eye. White undertail coverts. Wings are dark with two white bars. Gray bill is short and thick. Legs, feet are blue-gray. West Coast birds have greener upperparts then southwestern birds.

● Song: "chu-whe, chu-wee", "che-eer, che-eer", "chit-chit"

● Foraging & Feeding: Hutton's Vireo: Diet consists mostly of insects, spiders, and small berries. Gleans food from foliage and small twigs, and occasionally hawks flying insects.

● Breeding & nesting: Hutton's Vireo: Three to five white eggs, usually with brown spots at larger end, are laid in a hanging cup nest, lined with feathers and moss, and suspended from a shrub or young tree. Eggs are incubated for approximately 14 days by both parents.

● Similar species: Hutton's Vireo: Ruby-crowned Kinglet is smaller with a much thinner bill.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flights of short duration.
Hutton's Vireo Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Hutton's Vireo: Resident in southwestern British Columbia south to southern California, central Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and western Texas. Preferred habitats include deciduous and mixed forests, primarily oak woodlands; also, live-oak tangles in canyons of the southwest.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationFairly common
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight0.4 Ounces