Episode Number
57
Episode Show Notes / Description
Warbling vireo (Vireo gilvus).
The plain vireo with a happy, jumbled song.
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The following Cornell Lab | Macaulay Library recordings were used in this episode:
- Warbling vireo song by Geoffrey A. Keller (ML507826)
- Warbling vireo call by Randolph Little (ML507833)
- Warbling vireo second call by Geoffrey A. Keller (ML507828)
- Purple finch song by Gregory Budney (ML510176)
Sources and more:
- https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Warbling_Vireo
- https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/warbling-vireo
- Dobson, C., Kassenbaum, D., Oehmke, D., & Misewicz, M. (2023). Field guide to hotspots and birds in Illinois. Scissortail LLC.
- Godfrey, M. A., & Kaufman, Kenn. (Directors). (2004). National Audubon Society videoguide to the birds of North America [Video recording]. In Audubon videoguide to 505 birds of North America DVD I & DVD II (Fullscreen.). Godfrey-Stadin Productions.
- Peterson, R. T., & Peterson, V. M. (1980). A field guide to the birds: A completely new guide to all the birds of eastern and central North America (Fourth edition, completely revised and enlarged.). Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Sibley, D. (2016). Sibley birds East: Field guide to birds of eastern North America (2nd ed.). Alfred A. Knopf.
- Walton, R. K., & Lawson, R. W. (1989). Birding by Ear: Eastern/Central [Compact Disc]. On Eastern/Central birding by ear. Houghton Mifflin Co.
Transcript
This is Brodie with Illinois Extension and I’m here with a new “voice of the wild”
This cheerful song belongs to one of the plainest of our summer residents, Even bright individuals have only the barest of a yellow tinge on their front and the slightest of a white eyebrow. It is almost as if this plain bird is the blank on which nature prints the other vireos. This is the warbling vireo.
The warbling vireo can sound like a few other singers with bright, jumbled songs, especially the purple finch. To tell them apart, listen close to the end of the song; the warbling vireo’s nearly always sweeps upward. And, here it is again.
Thank you to the Macaulay library at the Cornell lab for today’s sound. Learn more about voice of the wild at go.illinois.edu/VOW
This cheerful song belongs to one of the plainest of our summer residents, Even bright individuals have only the barest of a yellow tinge on their front and the slightest of a white eyebrow. It is almost as if this plain bird is the blank on which nature prints the other vireos. This is the warbling vireo.
The warbling vireo can sound like a few other singers with bright, jumbled songs, especially the purple finch. To tell them apart, listen close to the end of the song; the warbling vireo’s nearly always sweeps upward. And, here it is again.
Thank you to the Macaulay library at the Cornell lab for today’s sound. Learn more about voice of the wild at go.illinois.edu/VOW