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Warbling Vireo -
(Vireo gilvus) 

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Identification

  • Small, drab songbird
  • Greyish or olive-grey above, light below
  • Faint grey eyeline below lighter stripe
  • No wing bars
  • 5.5" (14 cm.)

Habitat

  • Upland and lowland forest
  • Open areas with some woods

Additional Information

  • Common migrant and summer resident
  • Song a long jumbly-warbly phrase that
         usually ends with ascending sharp note
  • Frequent cowbird host, has been observed
         puncturing and ejecting cowbird egg

Warbling Vireo on a branch

Warbling Vireo in profile

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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