Small, chunky songbird with thick bill. Blue-gray head contrasts with olive-green back and with bold white "spectacles." Breast and belly are clean white with yellow flanks.
Like most vireos, head is large, neck is short, and bill is thick with a slight hook at the tip. Bold white "spectacles" on rich gray head; two whitish wingbars.
Both sexes help build the nest, which is suspended in a horizontal fork, fairly low in the outer slender branches of trees or shrubs.
Small songbird with large head and thick bill. Blue-gray head and bold white spectacles contrast with olive-green back. Two whitish wingbars.
Small, chunky songbird with thick bill. Blue-gray head with bold white "spectacles." Some individuals are gray on the upper back, grading to olive-green on the lower back.
A stocky small songbird with medium-length tail and fairly heavy, hooked bill and thick legs (compared to warblers).
Larger than a Carolina Chickadee, smaller than a Tufted Titmouse.
sparrow-sized or smallerNorthern populations from Canada to Pennsylvania (subspecies solitarius) have brighter greenish backs and more yellow on the sides; the larger Appalachian nesters (subspecies alticola), found from Maryland to Georgia, have a slatier gray back (thus little contrast between the head and back), and the yellow is usually confined to the flanks.
Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Vireonidae)
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