Look For With just a quick glance at a loggerhead shrike, you might mistake it for a mockingbird, as both birds are a blend of gray, black, and white. A closer look reveals the shrike’s flesh-tearing bill (shaped like a falcon’s bill), black mask, and its overall big-headed appearance and compact shape—quite different from the […]
The yellow-throated vireo has a “unified” look: It looks like someone took a gray above/white below bird and dunked it head first into yellow paint, leaving the wings, belly, and lower back uncolored but covering the head, throat, breast, and upper back with a rich coat of pigment Yellow-throated vireos breed in the eastern half
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In a field guide page, the white-eyed vireo resembles other vireo species. In real life, however, this bird’s voice, habitat, and perky habits set it apart from the rest of the pack. The white-eyed vireo may at first appear nondescript, but this bird has field marks that will quickly set you on the path to
The warbling vireo has the largest range of any member of the family in North America, being found from western and southern Canada through most of the United States. They are separated from other vireos by the plain face broken only by a white supercilium, the pale lores, a gray-green back, the lack of wing
