Blue-headed Vireo

About the Blue-headed Vireo

The sharpest-dressed of the "solitary vireo" trio - a blue-gray hood set off by bold white spectacles, white throat and yellow-washed flanks. It moves slowly and deliberately through the canopy, peering under leaves in typical vireo fashion, and is often the first vireo to arrive in fall and the last to leave in spring, wintering farther north than its relatives. Blue-headed, Cassin's and Plumbeous Vireos were considered one species until 1997, and Blue-headed remains the expected wintering form in most of Texas.