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Photo by Gary Clark
Location: Madera Canyon, Arizona, USA.

Vireo huttoni

[edit] Identification

4 in. Olive-grey upperparts and yellow underparts. Eye ring is white and broken above eye. Undertail coverts are white. Wings are dark with two white bars. Sexes are similar.

[edit] Similar Species

Often mistaken for the Ruby-crowned Kinglet, but note the black feet and slightly larger size of the vireo.

[edit] Distribution

• Pacific Group: Southwest British Columbia, California, Baja California
  
• Interior Group: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, mainland Mexico, and Guatemala

[edit] Taxonomy

There are two recognized groups of subspecies: the Pacific group has 8 subspecies and the Interior group has 5 subspecies.^[1] Recent DNA evidence may lead to a split of these groups into separate species.^[2].

[edit] Habitat

Deciduous and mixed forests, primarily oak woodlands.

[edit] Behaviour

• Diet: Gleaner of insects.
• Breeding: Builds a hanging cup nest suspended from a fork of a tree. The female lays 3-4 eggs. The eggs are mostly white in color, with scattered brown spotting.
• Migration: Some short-distance and altitudinal migration, but mostly resident. They may join with other species in flocks in winter.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

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