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White-eyed Vireos are common along back roads in both uplands and bottomlands, south to the coastal marshes. These shrub-nesting insectivores favor broad-leaved thickets at field edges and below openings in forest canopies. The "Possible" records near the coast may represent nonbreeding birds, such as migrants or wintering birds. The White-eyed Vireo is on the Audubon WatchList for Louisiana.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1914; see also the photo in the Introduction
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These branch-nesting insectivores breed wherever there are large, broad-leaved trees. This includes all bottomlands, even hardwood forests along minor streams in the pine lands. These birds forage high in trees and regularly frequent trees at the edge of fields, water courses, and residential areas. The scarcity of records from the northern Mississippi Alluvial Valley probably reflects that area's nearly complete conversion to agriculture.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1914
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These abundant, branch-nesting, and urban-tolerant insectivores exhibit a breeding distribution similar to that of the less common Yellow-throated Vireo. Unlike that species, Red-eyed Vireos frequently forage in young trees, even saplings. Several of the "Possible" records, especially those near the coast, may represent nonbreeding birds, such as migrants. Red-eyed Vireos are frequent hosts of cowbirds.
painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes 1914
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