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A small insect-eating bird, the Blue-headed Vireo (also known as Solitary Vireo) has a blue-gray crown, nape and face, an olive-green back, and white throat and underside. Distinctive characteristics are broad white wing bars, yellow sides, and white rings around the eyes, which resemble glasses. Females and immature birds have more grey on their heads. The Blue-headed Vireo moves through the trees with slow and deliberate movements, in search of insects.
Found in the coniferous forests of the Algonquin Highlands, they build beautiful pendant shaped nests of bark strips and down, held in place by their rim, and placed in a forked branch. Well hidden, the Blue-headed Vireo lays 3 to 5 white, brown spotted eggs. Males help to build the nest and incubate the eggs, and will not sing after the eggs are laid, as not to give away their location. The song of the Blue-headed Vireo is a beautiful and slow series of sweet, slurred phrases. They migrate south for the winter months.
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BLUE-HEADED VIREO
Vireo solitarius
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