Small, chunky songbird with short neck and fairly thick bill. Broad white eyering on olive-gray head; wings and tail with yellowish edging. Two bold whitish wingbars.
Small, chunky songbird with short neck and fairly thick bill. Broad white eyering on olive-gray head; wings and tail with yellowish edging. Two bold whitish wingbars.
Song is a series of hoarse or burry whistled notes, sometimes with a 2-parted, rising quality.
Small chunky songbird with short neck and fairly thick bill. Strong white eyering and two bold whitish wingbars. Prominent yellow edges to wing and tail feathers.
Underparts can range from mostly olive (as shown) to whitish. Wingbars are usually bold.
Both sexes help build the nest, which hangs from a horizontal fork in a slender branch and is made of grasses and plant fibers held together with spiderweb and camouflaged with moss, plant down, and lichen.
Typically breeds in evergreen forests and woodlands. Often flicks wings while foraging, like a kinglet does.
Breeding habitat includes conifer forests and woodlands, as well as other mostly evergreen habitats including live oak, chaparral, madrone, and pine-oak-juniper.
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A small vireo with a large head, short bill, rather short wings, and a moderately long tail.
Larger than a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, smaller than a Cassin’s Vireo.
sparrow-sized or smallerTwelve subspecies have been named. They differ in plumage tones, with coastal subspecies more richly colored (greenish) and interior subspecies from arid environments paler (more grayish).
Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Vireonidae)
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