Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: BetCrooks on September 24, 2014, 01:02:31 PM

Title: Vireo
Post by: BetCrooks on September 24, 2014, 01:02:31 PM

Seen hunting mid-tree height. Lots of small flying insects in the leaves.

Is this a Philadelphia Vireo? Or something quite different?

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Either way, it was nice to watch it finding lots to eat.

Title: Re: Vireo
Post by: Pat Hodgson on September 24, 2014, 02:44:46 PM

Yes, I think it is a Phila vireo due to the bright yellow chest.  Warbling vireo can have some yellow on the sides in the fall but should not look that yellow in the chest.  See here:
http://minnesotabirdnerd.blogspot.ca/2013/09/fall-vireos.html

Title: Re: Vireo
Post by: BetCrooks on September 27, 2014, 12:57:33 PM

Thanks! And thank you for the useful reference, too1