Gray Vireo
Gray Vireo: Medium-sized vireo with gray upperparts, faint white spectacles, dark iris, and dull white underparts. The wings are dark gray with indistinct white bars. The sideways twitching of the tail is unique among vireos and is similar to gnatcatchers. Forages in low undergrowth.
● Song:
"chu-wee, chu-wee, che-weet, chee, ch-churr-weet", "churr", "schray"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Gray Vireo: Feeds on variety of insects, which it gleans from branches, foliage, or the ground; forages in low undergrowth.
● Breeding & nesting:
Gray Vireo: Three to five pink eggs with brown spots concentrated at larger end are laid in a nest made of grass, twigs, shredded bark, leaves, spider webs, and insect cocoons, lined with fine grass, and built from 2 to 6 feet above the ground in a shrub. Incubation ranges from 13 to 14 days and is carried out by both parents.
● Similar species:
Gray Vireo: Plumbeous Vireo has shorter tail, not pumped or flicked, bold white spectacles, two bold wing-bars, and olive-gray wash and streaks on sides and flanks. Bell's Vireo is smaller, has two faint wing-bars, faint white spectacles, olive-brown to gray upperparts, and yellow to white underparts.