ML239390731
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Observation details
Heard singing at 8:30, 9:30, and around 10:20. Bursts of song that lasted intermittently for approximately 10-15 minutes before going silent. Very audible and well projected song. Quality was very high and clear and similar in quality to the song of a grosbeak but lacked the mumbly quality. Phrases were more halting and interspersed with squeak notes and had a distinctive vireo phraseology - lee-yu lee-lip ip tree-yee ip lee-yu - having no burriness whatsoever. Eventually located a small passerine 50 feet up in a tree. Underparts were pale gray with no marks of any type. Tail was blackish but notably short in proportion to the body. The bill was small and appeared pointy like that of a warbler or vireo. I did observe the face a couple of times where I could make out a dark ocular line, a paler supercilium above it the same color as the underparts, and what appeared to be a darker gray crown with a distinct border along the supercilium. But for the song I would never have been able to identify it as a Red-eyed Vireo.
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