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The Red-Eyed Vireo is olive-green above, whitish below, and has a white eyebrow stripe with a small black stripe above that. They have a grey crown and a red eye. Immature birds have darker eyes.
Not only one of the most abundant birds found in eastern North America, they also sing more than any other bird, at a loud warbling rate of nearly 3,000 times an hour, between May and mid-summer. Their quick and monotonous song consists of short musical phrases endlessly repeated. Despite being such a loud bird, the fact that they spend most of their time in the leafy canopy of Algonquin Highlands’ hardwood forests makes this vireo difficult to see.
The Red-Eyed Vireo is a fierce fighter around its nest, intimidating even the largest of birds. The nest is a thin, pendent shaped cup of bark strips and plant fibers, decorated with lichen, and attacked to a forked branch. They will lay 3 or 4 white eggs, sparsely spotted with dark brown.
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RED-EYED VIREO
Vireo olivaceus
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