White-eyed Vireo
While most vireos inhabit tall trees, the White-eyed Vireo is usually found in thickets, where its presence is most easily detected by its loud and distinctive song. A patient observer can usually get a good look at one by standing quietly and waiting for the bird's curiosity to bring it into view. The White-eyed Vireo is warbler-sized, olive green above and white below with yellow flanks and has yellow "spectacles" and white wing bars. The adult has a white eye while the immature has a dark eye. The White-eyed Vireo's song is a loud, explosive series of notes, chip-a-wheeoo-chip.

The White-eyed Vireo gleans its food, primarily insects, from branches and leaves. It eats mostly animal matter (90 percent of diet) but also eats some berries and small fruits in winter. The White-eyed Vireo builds a cone-shaped cup nest that is suspended from forked twigs of a low shrub or tree, usually well concealed, 1 to 8 feet above the ground.

The White-eyed Vireo breeds from Nebraska, Illinois, Ohio, southeastern New York and central New England south to eastern Texas and southern Florida and winters from the Gulf Coast and Florida southward. It prefers dense swampy thickets and hillsides with blackberry and briar tangles.
White-eyed Vireo Range Map


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