Warbling Vireo

Sängervireo ( Vireo gilvus )

The Sängervireo ( Vireo gilvus ) is a North American songbird.

Features

The 12 cm long and 12 g heavy Sängervireo is a bird with gray back, yellow belly brown, white over eye-streak and pale yellow flanks. He has thick blue-gray legs and a powerful beak. With his melodious song with long, swinging verses he differs from the short call other Vireo species.

Occurrence

This bird breeds in open deciduous forests, often near rivers, from southern Canada to Mexico and winters in tropical rain forest south to Nicaragua in Central America.

Behavior

The Sängervireo studied in the middle layers tree for insects and spiders, which he picked from the bark and leaves. In addition, include, especially before migration, also berries for food.

Reproduction

In a basket-like nest hanging in a tree fork high up in a tree, three to four eggs are laid and incubated by both parents birds twelve days. The young birds leave at the age of 16 days the nest. The Sängervireo is sometimes victims of brutschmarotzenden Brown-headed Kuhstärlings.