Philadelphia Vireo
Vireo philadelphicus
Habitat
Mid-canopy
Diet
Invertebrate
Active Time
Diurnal
Size
12 g
About This Species
A small, plain olive-grey songbird of North American deciduous woodland and edge habitat, best located by its slow, deliberate movements gleaning insects from mid-canopy foliage. Its song is a slurred, robin-like series of phrases, useful for picking it out from similar vireos on migration. Look for it during spring and especially autumn migration, when it passes through woodland edges and can linger in fruiting shrubs to fatten up.
Ethical Viewing Guidelines
- Standard songbird etiquette applies: watch from a few metres away with binoculars and avoid repeated pishing or playback, which can pull migrating birds away from feeding and resting.
- Migratory birds are protected under law in the United States and Canada, making it an offence to capture, harm or unduly disturb them, though the exact provisions differ between the two countries.
- Letting the bird continue foraging undisturbed is more useful to it on migration than a closer look.
LCAvesPasseriformesVireonidae
Seasonal Activity
339,475 sightings · 2000–2026
Citizen science records via GBIF
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Vireonidae
Traits
- Diet
- Invertebrate
- Foraging
- Mid-canopy
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Body mass
- 12 g
Photo
(c) Christopher Lindsey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Christopher Lindsey
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Occurrence data from GBIF.