#1098 · 🐦 birds
White-eyed Vireo
🇳🇱 Witoogvireo ·Vireo griseus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jerry Oldenettel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Jerry Oldenettel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © bwood708 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © José Antonio Linage Espinosa · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Roberto González · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Aidan R · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © asramears · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © hunteryarbrough · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Tim Frye · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The white-eyed vireo ( Vireo griseus ) is a small songbird. It breeds in the southeastern United States from New Jersey west to northern Missouri and south to Texas and Florida, and also in eastern Mexico, northern Central America, Cuba and the Bahamas.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 27,211 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pieter Boddaert in 1783 (243 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White-eyed Vireo
- Nederlands
- Witoogvireo
- scientific name
- Vireo griseus
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Vireonidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 5
- sightings worldwide
- 27,211
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1783 by Pieter Boddaert
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Vireonidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 17408, Wikidata Q512812, GBIF 2487413, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.