LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTH)V -- This week's bird is the White-eyed Vireo.
A small and secretive bird of shrubby areas of the eastern and southern United States, the White-eyed Vireo is more noticeable for its explosive song than its looks. They are a Neotropical migrant and are listed as a common summer resident in Arkansas. They are present here from late March through mid-November, which means they are here during the breeding season.
Their nest is an open cup suspended by the rim from a fork of a small branch in a tree. The nest is made of leaves, bark, plant fibers, rootlets, or bits of paper, held together with insect silk and spider webbing, and decorated on the outside with lichens, moss, or leaves. It is lined with rootlets, fine grass, or hair and is placed low to ground.
