Blue-headed Vireo:

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• Small songbird, medium-sized vireo.
• Bluish gray head with white spectacles.
• Two whitish wingbars.
• Belly white.
• Flanks yellowish.

♫: Song a broken series of slurred notes, with each phrase ending in either a downslur or an upswing, as if the bird asks a question, then answers it, over and over. Includes a few burry notes.

Yellow-throated Vireo:

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• Olive green upperparts.
• Bright yellow throat, breast, and eye spectacles.
• Belly and under tail white.
• Two white wingbars.

♫: NA

Warbling Vireo:

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• Small drab songbird.
• Back grayish green.
• Underparts whitish, may have yellowish tinge to flanks.
• Eyebrow dull white.
• Grayish line through eye.
• No wingbars, tail spots, or eyering.

♫: rapid jumble of rising and falling notes, usually ending in an accented, higher-pitched note.

"If I sees you, I will seize you, and I'll squeeze you till you squirt!"

Philadelphia Vireo:

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• Back grayish green.
• Cap grayish.
• Underparts pale yellow, palest on throat and deepest on breast.
• Eyebrow white.
• Blackish line through and in front of eye.
• No wingbars, tail spots, or eyering.

♫: NA

Red-eyed Vireo:

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• Back olive-green, whiter underneath.
• Crown gray to blue-gray.
• Eyebrow white with black stripe through the eye.
• Eyes dark red.

♫: series of phrases interspaced with short pauses, like the song of an American Robin broken into pieces

"where are you? here I am" over and over

Horned Lark:

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• Pale brown back.
• Black chest patch.
• Black face patch.
• Yellow or pale throat.
• Small "horns" on top of head.

♫: high, musical tinkling. Sound of the wooden-twisty metal bird call

Golden-crowned Kinglet:

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• Tiny bird.
• Dull, olive-green on back.
• Whitish below.
• Wingbars.
• Black stripe through eyes, white eyebrow.
• Crown yellow, orange centered in male (often hidden), bordered in black.
• Short tail.
• In constant motion, continually flicking its wings.

♫: rising, thin, high-pitched "tsee, tsee-tsee-tsee" followed by short warble

Ruby-crowned Kinglet:

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• Constant wing-flicking
• Tiny bird.
• Dull, olive-green.
• Wingbars.
• Eyering.
• Short tail.
• In constant motion.
• Male with red crown (usually hidden)

♫: 2-3 high "tsees" then 5-6 lower "turs" followed by "little king, little king, little king"

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher:

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Known by soft "spee" calls and constant motion. Flicks its white-edged tail from side to side to scare insects.

• Tiny bird.
• Long tail.
• Bluish gray back.
• White underside.
• White eyering.
• White outer tail feathers.
• Small, thin bill.
• No wingbars.

♫: a thin, nasal "spee."

American Pipit:

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• Medium-sized songbird.
• Brown and striped.
• Thin bill.
• White outer tail feathers.
• Bobs tail up and down.

♫: NA

Scarlet Tanager:

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Male: Bright red all over; variable in hue and can be somewhat orange. Black tail and wings. Whitish bill. Dark eye. Gray legs.

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Female: Olive green to yellow body, brightest on throat, rump and undertail. Brownish olive wings and tail edged green.

♫: blurry robin call. Like a robin with a sore/raspy throat.