Yellow-throated Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

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1. Description
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3. Conservation Status
4. Other Names
5. Cool Facts
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A bird of open deciduous forests, the Yellow-throated Vireo is the most colorful member of its family in North America.

Description

• Small songbird.
• Olive green upperparts.
• Bright yellow throat, breast, and eye spectacles.
• Belly and under tail white.
• Two white wingbars.

• Size: 13-15 cm (5-6 in)
• Wingspan: 23 cm (9 in)
• Weight: 15-21 g (0.53-0.74 ounces)

Sex Differences

Sexes alike.

Sound

Song a broken series of burry two- and three-syllable phrases.

Conservation Status

Has disappeared from some small forest areas, but is increasing slightly rangewide.

Other Names

Viréo à gorge jaune (French)
Vireo pechiamarillo, Verdón de pecho amarillo, Vireo gargantiamarillo, Vireo gorgiamarillo (Spanish)

Cool Facts

• While the Yellow-throated Vireo is associated with forest edge habitat, it actually requires large blocks of forest to breed successfully. Numbers decrease sharply in forests smaller than 100 hectares (250 acres) in the northeastern United States.
• The Yellow-throated Vireo is typically a solitary bird on migration and during the winter. It forms only loose associations with mixed-species foraging flocks. In the summer, pairs associate only long enough to raise a brood of young.

Sources used to construct this page:

Rodewald, P. G., and R. D. James. 1996. Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo flavifrons). In The Birds of North America, No. 247 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.