Stats

Lifespan: Up to 10 yrs
Size: Small
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Solitary
Biome: Temperate forest
Range: The Americas
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Common

About

The Red-eyed Vireo is a small American songbird, somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers. It has a distinctive red eye patch and a bright green back and wings.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2.
hatchling
A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Vireonidae
Genus: Vireo
Species: Vireo olivaceus