North American Bird Search Box
This search box can be used to find bird species using bird's english, french or latin name, or to identify bird by its 4 letter Alpha Code
Field Guide for all the Birds of North America
White-eyed Vireo
4 Letter (english names) Alpha Code: WEVI (1)
Viréo aux yeux blancs
Vireo griseus
Information, images and range maps on over 1,000 birds of North America, including sub-species, vagrants, introduced birds and possibilities
Species: The White-eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus) is one of the smaller members of the vireo family seen in North America. It is known for its loud outburst of songs from thickets. This mostly southern bird prefers a bushy bramble-type habitat for its home. It has some similarities in appearance to the Blue-headed Vireo. Like other vireo species, its' main diet is insects and it eats some fruit in the winter months.
Distinctions: The male and female are similar looking in appearance. It has a large bill with a visible hook at the end of its upper bill, same identifying features seen in other vireos. Gray head, white iris, yellow lores and spectacles, yellowish green back, yellow flanks and undertail, with white throat and breast.
Voice: Loud outbursts, range of musical notes, some similarity with the Red-eyed Vireo, mimics other vireos and is usually found singing from bushes and scrubby growths.
Nesting: Three to five white eggs, speckled with brown or black spots. Suspended from a fork in branches of scrub oak or in underbrush. The nest is composed of strips of wood bark, plant fibres and lined with fine grasses and spiderwebs.
Life, Habitat & Pictures of North American Vireos
| B L | W W | W | Family | Latin Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5" 12.7cm | 7.5" 19.1cm | 0.4oz 11.3g | Vireonidae | Vireo griseus |
North American Birds Calls
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- Year Around
- Winter
Distribution: Found throughout southeastern North America, from eastern New York state to southern Ontario, south of the Great Lakes, into New Brunswick, west into the Great Lakes and into the mid-state plains, south into Texas and Mexico, east to Florida and up the Atlantic coast. There is a sub-species population that lives year-round from Texas to Florida. It migrates onto the Caribbean islands and into Central America during the late fall and winter months.
References to Other Bird Sites:
Avibase - the world bird database This site provides the user with a complete list of bird species, broken down per country, or in the example of the US or Canada, per state and province. Here, bird species names are available in other languages, a great asset to be used as a translation of foreign bird names.
ABA - American Birding Association This site represents an organization that maintains official records of all birds species that have been proven to have been seen inside the perimeters of the North American Continent and the surrounding bodies of water. Regular revised versions are posted to keep the bird list current at all times. This is the list used by all serious birders over their lifetime. You may be aware of the movie called the "Big Year". It was with this list that all the competing birders used in an attempt to set a new record as to how many bird species that could be seen by an individual birder in one calendar year.
I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends.