Vireos

The warblers and vireos scratching the leaf litter, the nuthatches and creepers patrolling tree bark are all looking for insects to kill and eat. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Population surveys over the past 20 years on the south coast show that olive-sided flycatchers are down 75 per cent, common nighthawks 72 per cent, barn swallows 80 per cent and red-eyed vireos 85 per cent. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fort Hood, which contains the largest population of golden-cheeked warblers and black-capped vireos under a single management unit, as well as significant karst features ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, a 90 km2 site for re-establishment of bison and an important area for conservation of black-capped vireos - southeastern Oklahoma ❋ Unknown (2007)

Head to Spittal Pond Nature Reserve and walk the loop around the pond, keeping an eye out for ducks, herons and vireos. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Still some cherries on my tertial stand, although the vireos were working on them just above my head. ❋ Grouse (2001)

The marshes had large water birds like egrets and herons, three kinds of wrens, more than twenty different warblers, vireos, plus large birds of prey like hawks and eagles. ❋ Unknown (1997)

I would describe subtle pastel features of warblers and vireos flitting about in the tree tops 60 feet above the ground to the amazement of even the adult scout leaders. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Or, camouflage yourself with leaves and go out on a limb to see warblers, kinglets, vireos, and other canopy birds. ❋ Janine M. Benyus (1989)

In May the principal birds of our neighbourhood will return -- thrushes, vireos, tanagers, grosbeaks, bobolinks, orioles. ❋ Claude H. Miller (N/A)

The nuthatches, vireos, warblers and creepers search every part of the tree, while the woodpeckers tap beneath the bark for grubs and worms. ❋ Mary Huston Gregory (N/A)

Warblers and vireos are among the most helpful birds in an orchard, devouring large quantities of insects. ❋ Mary Huston Gregory (N/A)

The chipping sparrow always lines its nest with hairs, the crane uses cedar bark, the robin mud, the vireos often place a bit of wasps 'nest in their bag-like nests; but no one has ever tried to explain why they should always employ these particular things. ❋ Sarah J. Eddy (N/A)

In one of our school yards the children discovered a pair of red-eyed vireos building. ❋ Charles Almanzo Babcock (N/A)

_ -- Essays may be written describing some of the insects injurious to fruit trees; also the birds that feed largely upon these insects -- the warblers, thrushes, orioles, wrens, woodpeckers, vireos, and others. ❋ Charles Almanzo Babcock (N/A)

A pair of warbling vireos have built in a linden and sing all the time. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Spiders raised their meshes where shrimps had skipped, and flies hummed and were caught by singing jungle vireos, where armored catfish had passed an hour or two before. ❋ William Beebe (1919)