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Red-eyed Vireo
Mt. Tammany, Delaware Water Gap, 5/29/99 with Eastern Towhee (168kb)

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Blue Mountain Lake, 7/11/99 (143kb)

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AT, north of Blairstown Road, Delaware Water Gap, 8/19/03 with Pewee and Nuthatch (71kb).  This bird initially sounded like a SolitaryVireo but had a clear black eye-line and white eye stripe of the Red-eyed Vireo.  Solitary Vireo are also in the area.

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"Nyaah" annoyance call  
Red-eyed Vireo song, Cheesequake State Park, 6/12/04 (kb)   
 

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Comments:  According to Boyle, a common summer resident in woodlands throughout New Jersey.  Peterson, deciduous woodlands.

Stokes describes this song as "short, medium pitched, whistled phrases with space in between, like "eeyay, oolee, eeyup"; calls "nyaah" an "tjjj." 

Robbins describes the song as "robin-like", but phrases are separated by brief pauses; the song typically continues for many minutes without a long break, 35-70/min.

Peterson:  Song a monotonous series of short abrupt phrases of robin-like character.  These phrases, separated by deliberate pauses, are repeated as often as forty times in a minute, all through the day.  Learn this song well, so as to compare with other Vireos.  Note, a nasal whining "chway."

Kunkel: describes this song as the familiar "Here I am, where are you" song.  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/G_Kunkel/red-eyed.htm. (Sound recording provided with date and location.

Bittner: At first I found it easy to mistake this bird song for a robin.  However, a robin does not make the vireo's "chit" sound, but "laughs" instead.  A robin's song is more continuous with fewer pauses between phrases.

Patuxent:  sound recording with no description of song given. http://www.mbr.nbs.gov/id/framlst/i6240id.html.