Yellow-throated Vireo
Vireo flavifrons
Stocky, brightly-colored vireo with yellow throat and spectacles. Olive upperparts and gray wings with two bold white wingbars. Breeds in mature deciduous forests in eastern North America, often near water. Usually seen singly, high in the canopy. Typical vireo song of short, repeated phrases; Yellow-throated is burry and slow, like a Blue-headed with a sore throat. Thick, slightly hooked bill helps separate this species from Pine Warbler, which has similar plumage. Winters in Central and northern South America.
Identification
Adults are mainly olive on the head and upperparts with a yellow throat and white belly; they have dark eyes with yellow "spectacles". The tail and wings are dark with white wing bars. They have thick blue-grey legs and a stout bill.<p>Measurements:
Taxonomy
- Scientific name
- Vireo flavifrons
- Authority
- Vieillot, 1808
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Vireonidae
- Genus
- Vireo
Range and habitat
Their breeding habitat is open deciduous woods in southern Canada and the eastern United States.<p>These birds migrate to the deep southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. They are very rare vagrants to western Europe; there is a September 1990 record from Kenidjack Valley in Cornwall, Great Britain, and September 1998 record from Heligoland, a small German archipelago in the German Bight.
- Breeding range
- NA : sc, se Canada to sc, se USA
- Non-breeding range
- n SA
- Migration
- Complete migrants
Conservation
- Population trend
- rising
Photos
Distribution
Bird Calls
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