Blue-headed vireo Vireo solitarius
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Length: 4.75? inches
White spectacles
Dark eye
White wing bars
Gray head contrasting with olive back
White throat, breast, and undertail coverts
Yellowish flanks ...
Blue-headed Vireo
Adult
Similar Species
Cassin's Vireo is very similar, but has brownish gray crown contrasting less sharply with throat and the back; very limited overlap in range.
Blue-headed Vireo
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The Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius) was formerly known as Solitary Vireo. The species nests across parts of the eastern United States and much of Canada.
Blue-headed Vireo
Vireo solitarius
Order - Passeriformes; Family - Vireonidae ...
Blue-headed Vireo
(Vireo solitarius)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as a regular spring migrant in wooded sections of the lab.
Blue-headed Vireo
Formerly called the Solitary Vireo, this songbird has white "spectacles".
A Migratory Bird with Sexual Equality?
Blue-headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius)
Blue Mountain Vireo, Vireo osburni
Cassin's Vireo (Vireo cassinii)
Choco Vireo, Vireo masteri ...
Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius. Breeder. Fairly common in winter, spring, and fall in Gulf Coast region. In Inland Coastal Plain region, uncommon in winter, spring, and fall.
The Blue-headed Vireo (V. solitarius) was once known as the Solitary Vireo. That species was split by the AOU into three distinct species in 1997. In the divorce, the Blue-headed Vireo got to keep the eastern U.S.
A similar vireo found in northern Georgia during the breeding season is the Blue-headed Vireo (formerly known as the Solitary Vireo). The Blue-headed Vireo song is much slower.
Similar Species: Cassin's Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, Gray Vireo
Conservation Status: They are quite frequent hosts to cowbird parasitism, but populations are considered stable.
 See also: Vireo, Solitary Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, White-eye, White-eyed Vireo
  
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