CLASS AVES

Warbling Vireo

Animals Kingdom (Animalia)

• Chordates (Phylum Chordata)

• Vertebrates (Subphylum Vertebrata)

• Birds (Class Aves)

The Warbling Vireo is a small bird, greenish-gray above, whitish below in spring, lightly washed with yellow below in fall. It has no wing-bars. It has a prominent white line above the eye and a faint grayish line below it. During winter in western Mexico, this vireo is rarely encountered outside of a mixed species feeding flock. The diet is mostly insects, and some berries. In breeding season feeds mainly on insects, including many caterpillars, plus aphids, beetles, grasshoppers, ants, bugs, scale insects, flies, dragonflies; also eats some spiders and snails.