Brightly colored vireo with a thick bill. Note the bright yellow eyering and lores ("spectacles"), and unstreaked yellow throat. The belly and undertail coverts are white while the head is olive-green
Brightly colored vireo with bright-yellow spectacles, yellow throat, and white belly and undertail coverts. Typically seen in treetops.
Song is a slow-paced series of rising and falling notes with a burry tone.
Typically forages in treetops. Chunky, short-tailed appearance with a thick bill. Note the unstreaked yellow throat.
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Yellow-throated Vireos are small songbirds, but they are chunky, with a big head, thick bill, and short tail.
Larger than a Black-capped Chickadee, smaller than an Eastern Wood-Pewee.
sparrow-sized or smallerVireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis(Order: Passeriformes, Family: Vireonidae)
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