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Yellow-throated Vireo

Vireo flavifronsOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Vireos (Vireonidae)

Yellow-throated Vireo Breeding Male Portrait
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General

Yellow-throated Vireo: Large vireo with olive-gray upperparts and gray rump. Throat and breast are bright yellow, belly is white. Eyes are dark. Spectacles are pale yellow. Wings are dark with two white bars. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Yellow-throated Vireo: Breeds from Manitoba, Minnesota, Ontario, and central New England south to Gulf Coast states. Spends winters in tropics, with a few in southern Florida. Inhabits live oak hammocks, mature pine forests, or mixed turkey oak and pine woodlands. Also occurs in cypress swamps or mixed forests along rivers. Sometimes found in residential areas with mature trees.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"three-EIGHT, three-EIGHT, three-EIGHT", "cheh, cheh, cheh"

Interesting Facts

 The Yellow-throated Vireo was first described in 1808 by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, a French ornithologist.

 It requires large blocks of forest to breed successfully. Numbers decrease sharply in forests smaller than 250 acres in the northeastern United States.

 Their numbers have decreased in recent years because of the spraying of trees with toxic chemicals.

 A group of vireos are collectively known as a "call" of vireos.



Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Family Vireo (Sylviidae)_blue
Species Vireo flavifrons
Length5 - 6 Inches
Wingspan9.5 Inches

Yellow-throated Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo: Large vireo, olive-gray upperparts, gray rump. Throat and breast are bright yellow, belly is white. Eyes are dark. Spectacles are yellow. Wings are dark with two white bars. Legs and feet are black. It is the most colorful member of its family in North America.

● Song: "three-EIGHT, three-EIGHT, three-EIGHT", "cheh, cheh, cheh"

● Foraging & Feeding: Yellow-throated Vireo: Diet is composed of insects, mostly caterpillars; also eats spiders and fruits.

● Breeding & nesting: Yellow-throated Vireo: Three to five white to light pink eggs with brown spots at larger end are laid in a cup-shaped nest made of grass and lichens, and suspended from a tree limb 3 to 60 feet above the ground. Both parents incubate eggs for 14 days.

● Similar species: Yellow-throated Vireo: Pine Warbler is smaller, lacks spectacles, has thinner bill, faintly streaked sides, and white tail spots.

Flight Pattern

Fluttering direct flight with rapid wing beats.
Yellow-throated Vireo Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Yellow-throated Vireo: Breeds from Manitoba, Minnesota, Ontario, and central New England south to Gulf Coast states. Spends winters in tropics, with a few in southern Florida. Inhabits live oak hammocks, mature pine forests, or mixed turkey oak and pine woodlands. Also occurs in cypress swamps or mixed forests along rivers. Sometimes found in residential areas with mature trees.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationFairly common in range
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.6 Ounces