# White-eyed Vireo

[![white-eyed_vireo_decent_photo.jpg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/scaled-1680-/white-eyed-vireo-decent-photo.jpg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/white-eyed-vireo-decent-photo.jpg)

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### **Description**

The White-eyed Vireo is more often heard than seen. It has a gray head with yellow on its face and underside. You'll notice a yellow underside and face with an olive-colored back and white wing bars.

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### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**Personal stats**</span>  


#### <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**First** </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**observation**</span>

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#### **Captured media details**

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</td><td style="height: 29.5px; border-width: 1px;">**Male**  
</td><td style="height: 29.5px; border-width: 1px;">**Female**  
</td><td style="height: 29.5px; border-width: 1px;">**Unknown**  
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### **Experiences &amp; anecdotes**

**8/7/2021** - This was the day that the White-eyed Vireo finally cooperated for a blurry, mediocre photo.

**3/11/2023** - Because this bird is very vocal and shy, it is a great target to record. It makes a chk-vireo-chk sound that sounds like no other bird I hear. Its song is conspicuous and easy to pick out from the cacophony of the forest.

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### **Captured media**

#### **Photographs**

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">**[![white-eyed_vireo_first_blurry_photo.jpg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/scaled-1680-/white-eyed-vireo-first-blurry-photo.jpg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/white-eyed-vireo-first-blurry-photo.jpg)**</span>

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<span style="background-color: rgb(236, 240, 241);">[![white-eyed_vireo_decent_photo.jpg](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/scaled-1680-/white-eyed-vireo-decent-photo.jpg)](https://birding.wiki/uploads/images/gallery/2023-03/white-eyed-vireo-decent-photo.jpg)</span>

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#### **Audio recordings**

- [**ML518169001**](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/518169001)- 0:43 
    - The White-eyed Vireo in this clip sounds extremely agitated with its rapid calls that went on and on.

<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="378" src="https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/518169001/embed" width="320"></iframe>

- [**ML526944201**](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/526944201)- 0:19 
    - Listen to the distinct call of the White-eyed Vireo. Chk Vireo Chk!

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- [**ML539724621**](https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/539724621)- 1:27 
    - This bird calls without the final chk. Halfway through the clip is switches its song to an even more complicated version.

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### **From my blogs**

- [Birding at Medina River in San Antonio](https://becausebirds.com/birding-at-medina-river-in-san-antonio/)
- [Birding at Crescent Bend Nature Park](https://becausebirds.com/birding-at-crescent-bend-nature-park/)
- [Leading a bird walk at Pearsall Park with Bexar Audubon Society](https://becausebirds.com/leading-a-bird-walk-at-pearsall-park-with-bexar-audubon-society/)
- [Birding in Boerne](https://becausebirds.com/birding-in-boerne/)
- [Practicing as a birding guide at Pearsall Park](https://becausebirds.com/practicing-as-a-birding-guide-at-pearsall-park/)
- [Tanagers &amp; Parulas at Cibolo Nature Center in Boerne, Texas](https://becausebirds.com/tanagers-and-parulas-at-cibolo-nature-center-in-boerne-texas/)
- [Painted Buntings and Nesting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers](https://becausebirds.com/painted-buntings-and-nesting-scissor-tailed-flycatchers/)
- [Recording and photographing birds at the same time](https://becausebirds.com/recording-and-photographing-birds-at-the-same-time/)
- [Finding a Yellow-billed Cuckoo while birding at Pearsall Park](https://becausebirds.com/finding-a-yellow-billed-cuckoo-while-birding-at-pearsall-park/)