Yellow-green Vireo

Yellow-green Vireo

Yellow-green Vireo: Medium vireo, olive-green upperparts, pale yellow underparts, bright yellow sides and flanks. Crown is dull gray, eyebrows are white, and eyestripe is dark. Eyes are red. Bill is gray, legs, and feet are blue-gray. Flight is fast and direct on rapidly beating wings.

● Song: "chiree-chree, swe, chiree-chree", "rrieeh"

● Foraging & Feeding: Yellow-green Vireo: Feeds on a wide variety of insects and spiders; also eats seeds and berries. Forages in the middle to upper levels of forests, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks; may hover briefly to take insects or fruits.

● Breeding & nesting: Yellow-green Vireo: Two to four brown spotted, white eggs are laid in a nest made of grasses, plant fiber, lichens, moss, cobwebs, and strips of papery bark, and built from 5 to 40 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 13 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Yellow-green Vireo: Red-eyed Vireo is paler below and has markings that are more distinct on head.

Flight Pattern