Curious vireos...

Today we banded both an adult (top or left depending on my formatting skills!) and juvenile white-eyed vireo. This vireo is easily distinguished by its yellow spectacles, yellow flanks, white wing bars, and if you're lucky to see them close enough white eyes, of course!

While waiting for my photos to load, I found some interesting facts on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's website allaboutbirds.org:

The only fossil record for the Vireonidae family that has been found in North America was a wing bone of a White-eyed vireo found in Florida and dating back about 400,000 years ago!

These birds are superb mimics, incorporating the calls of many different species into its song which is sung by both the female and male on the wintering grounds. So sing it from the tree, or rather, shrub-tops ladies!