Singers' vireo
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Singer Vireo ( Vireo gilvus ) |
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The warbling vireo ( Vireo gilvus ) is a North American songbird .
features
The 12 cm long and 12 g heavy singer vireo is a bird with a gray back, yellow-brown belly, white stripes over the eyes and pale yellow flanks. It has thick blue-gray legs and a powerful beak. With its melodic singing with long, swinging stanzas, it differs from the short calls of other Vireo species.
Occurrence
This bird breeds in open deciduous forests, often near rivers, from southern Canada to Mexico, and winters in tropical rainforests in Central America south to Nicaragua .
behavior
The singer vireo looks for insects and spiders in the middle layers of the tree, which he picks from the bark and leaves. Berries are also part of the diet, especially before birds migrate.
Reproduction
In a basket-like nest that hangs in a fork high up in a tree, three to four eggs are laid and both parent birds hatch for twelve days. The young birds leave the nest at the age of 16 days. The singer vireo sometimes falls victim to the brood parasitic brown-headed cowbird .
literature
- Hilty: Birds of Venezuela . ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
- Stiles and Skutch: A guide to the birds of Costa Rica . ISBN 0-8014-9600-4
- Colin Harrison, Alan Greensmith: Birds . Dorling Kindersley Limited, London 1993, 2000, ISBN 3-831-00785-3
- Bryan Richard: Birds . Parragon, Bath, ISBN 1-405-45506-3
Web links
- Vireo gilvus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.