Hutton's Vireo

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

Vireo huttoni

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.

Similar Species

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

Distribution

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

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].

Habitat

Deciduous and mixed forests, primarily oak woodlands.

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.

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

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Hutton's Vireo. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Hutton%27s_Vireo

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