White-eyed vireo,

White-eyed vireo, at our water feature, Rondeau Provincial Park, Oct 11, 2022.


Still a good flow of migrating birds passing through the yard.
Very dry in the park and we have running water which is bringing the birds in.
Young birds have a dark eye that turns white in their first winter or spring.
Vireo griseus.
In Florida, scientists found a 400,000-year-old wing bone from a White-eyed Vireo from the late Pleistocene. It is North America’s only fossil record for the whole vireo family.
source -allaboutbird-org.

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