White-eyed Vireo

Vireo griseusOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Vireos (Vireonidae)

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White-eyed Vireo

White-eyed Vireo: Medium-sized, secretive vireo with olive-green upperparts, and white underparts with yellow sides and flanks. Spectacles are pale yellow and iris is white. Wings are dark with two white bars. Legs and feet are gray. Flight is fast and direct on short, rounded wings.

● Song: "quick-with the beer check", "tick"

● Foraging & Feeding: White-eyed Vireo: Eats insects, spiders, and small lizards; also eats seeds and berries in fall and winter. Forages in shrubs or dense undergrowth

● Breeding & nesting: White-eyed Vireo: Three to five brown-and-black spotted, white eggs are laid in a deep cup of twigs, rootlets, bark strips, coarse grass, and leaves, and built in a dense thicket 1 to 8 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 12 to 16 days and is carried out by both parents.

● Similar species: White-eyed Vireo: Bell's Vireo has broken eye-ring, lacks yellow spectacles, usually shows fainter wing-bars, and has dark eye as an adult. Yellow-throated Vireo resembles White-eyed Vireo juvenile, but has white throat.

Flight Pattern

Rapid direct flight.

White-eyed Vireo Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: White-eyed Vireo: Breeds from Nebraska to Massachusetts, south to eastern Mexico and throughout Florida. Winters from the southern Gulf Coast to Central America and from coastal North Carolina, the Bahamas, and Bermuda to the Caribbean. Found in dense thickets, pine flatwoods, cypress swamps, and scrubby edges of roads, canals, and ponds. Avoids urban areas, but may be found in wooded parks and undeveloped areas near and within large cities.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common to common

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.4 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America

White-eyed Vireo

White-eyed Vireo

Flight Pattern