Plumbeous Vireo Images, Facts and Information:
Vireo plumbeus
- Plumbeous Vireos are medium sized vireos with gray backs, crowns, and faces with pronounced white eye rings that give them a bespectacled appearance. They have white throats and underparts, olive-gray sides and yellow washed flanks, wings are gray with two white bars. Sexes are similar.
- Plumbeous Vireos are migratory and they are birds seen in the western U.S, Mexico and Central America. Plumbeous Vireos prefer habitats that include arid mountain basins, riparian woodlands and mountain coniferous and mixed forests.
- Plumbeous Vireos eat insects and some fruits and berries.
- Plumbeous Vireos lay 3 to 5 eggs which hatch in 14 to 15 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of vireos can be called a “call” of vireos.
- Plumbeous Vireos can live to be more than 5 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Plumbeous Vireo photos.
Mia McPherson
Plumbeous Vireo on a dead hawthorn branch
Title: Plumbeous Vireo on a dead hawthorn branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/16/2018
Mia McPherson
Plumbeous Vireo giving me a curious look
Title: Plumbeous Vireo giving me a curious look
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/16/2018
Mia McPherson
Plumbeous Vireo close up
Title: Plumbeous Vireo close up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 9/3/2018