{"id":526,"date":"2010-04-16T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2010-04-16T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:17:02","slug":"white-eyed-vireo-%e2%80%93-a-different-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"White-eyed Vireo \u2013 A Different Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late this morning, a White-eyed Vireo sat on a branch in a small tree in an overgrown area of weeds, grass and shrubs and sang a somewhat unusual song. Instead of its familiar <em>chik-a-perioo-chik<\/em>, this one was singing:<\/p>\n<p><em>Chik! Meew-chicoree-chik-chik-rasp-Chik!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>mew<\/em> was very distinct, a good imitation of a Gray Catbird, but it wasn\u2019t random. It was incorporated into a pattern that the vireo repeated several times while I watched. Each time the <em>chik <\/em>at the beginning and end of the song were both emphatic, and the two <em>chik-chiks<\/em> in the middle quick and close together. The <em>rasp<\/em> was a short, ringing buzz.<\/p>\n<p>This might have been what\u2019s described as a White-eyed Vireo\u2019s rambling song. But it didn\u2019t really sound like a Gray Catbird, except for the <em>mew<\/em>, and it wasn\u2019t a long or rambling song with several imitations, but just this repeated and quite distinct pattern.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun to have a good close-up look at the vireo in the little tree \u2013 the yellow spectacles, black streak from eye to bill, the white throat and breast and very faint tinge of yellow on the flanks, and two white wing bars. Not quite close enough to see the white of its eyes. It stayed in view for several minutes, singing, before flying away.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the morning, a different White-eyed Vireo sang in the oaks in our back yard (about a mile away from the other) \u2013 the first time we\u2019ve had one so close this season \u2013 and it also was singing a similar song that began and ended with a <em>chik! <\/em>and included a catbird-like <em>mew<\/em>. Later in the afternoon the same vireo (I think), switched to singing its more familiar <em>chik-a-perioo-chik<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late this morning, a White-eyed Vireo sat on a branch in a small tree in an overgrown area of weeds, grass and shrubs and sang a somewhat unusual song. Instead of its familiar chik-a-perioo-chik, this one was singing: Chik! Meew-chicoree-chik-chik-rasp-Chik! The mew was very distinct, a good imitation of a Gray Catbird, but it wasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}