A bird of open deciduous forests, the Yellow-throated Vireo is the most colorful member of its family in North America.

Interesting Information

• While the Yellow-throated Vireo is associated with forest edge habitat, it actually requires large blocks of forest to breed successfully. Numbers decrease sharply in forests smaller than 100 hectares (250 acres) in the northeastern United States.

• The Yellow-throated Vireo is typically a solitary bird on migration and during the winter. It forms only loose associations with mixed-species foraging flocks. In the summer, pairs associate only long enough to raise a brood of young.

• A group of vireos are collectively known as a "call" of vireos.

• It requires large blocks of forest to breed successfully. Numbers decrease sharply in forests smaller than 250 acres in the northeastern United States.

• The Yellow-throated Vireo was first described in 1808 by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, a French ornithologist.

• Their numbers have decreased in recent years because of the spraying of trees with toxic chemicals.

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