Gray Vireos are lively residents of the punishingly hot deserts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. Gray above, whitish below, this species blends in well with the grays and greens of its surroundings.

Gray Vireos are lively residents of the punishingly hot deserts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. Gray above, whitish below, this species blends in well with the grays and greens of its surroundings.

Few birds are as plain as the Gray Vireo, a drab summer resident of juniper woods and open brush in the Great Basin region. What it lacks in color, however, it makes up for with personality, hopping around actively in the scrub, singing, and flopping its tail about.

One of North America's most nondescript birds: pale gray above, lighter whitish below, with a hint of pale spectacles and wingbars. Long-tailed for a vireo, but with a typically thick bill. Occurs on dry rocky slopes with patches of dense brush and trees, especially oaks and junipers. Usually seen singly or in pairs, often detected by voice.

The gray vireo (Vireo vicinior) is a small North American passerine bird. It breeds from the southwestern United States and northern Baja California to western Texas.

Gray Vireos are small, dull gray overall with a thin white eye ring. A white spot in front of their eyes makes faint spectacles, also donning one faint white wingbar and a relatively long tail. Juveniles are similar to adults, but are more brownish with distinct wingbars.

14 cm (5-6") Uncommon. Southwestern United States. Dry bushy mountain slopes, chaparral, pinyon-juniper. Gray upperparts. White underparts. Faint eye ring. Faint wing bars. Resembles Bell's Vireo but Bell prefers moist habitats. And like Bell it will t...

The gray vireo (Vireo vicinior) is a small North American passerine bird. It breeds from the southwestern United States and northern Baja California to western Texas . It is a migrant, wintering in northwestern Mexico , in western Sonora state, and the southern Baja Peninsula in Baja California Sur; it remains all year only in Big Bend National ...

In winter, the Gray Vireo is closely associated with the Elephant Tree, the bird as a seed disperser and the plant as a food source possibly being linked in mutual dependence (Bates 1992). It was only through a targeted search of California’s larg-est stand of Elephant Trees that the Gray Vireo

Species: The Gray Vireo (Vireo icinior) is found in a semi-arid landscape, composed of oaks, juniper and scrub brush. It is not an easy bird to observe as it stays out of sight in the overgrowth. However, it can be located by its singing. This dull gray bird has few features that one can use as identifying notes.