This Plumbeous Vireo Vireo plumbeus
was at Rose Hill Cemetery, Corpus Christi, Texas on October 30,
2004. This is seems to be one of very few photographic records
for Texas east of its normal range in far west Texas.
Note in the crop below the grey edging to the secondaries:
below is a fairly typical Blue-headed
Vireo Vireo Solitarius at the same location
and time:
- and here is a comparison of the Plumbeous and the Blue-headed;
keep in mind that Vireos undergo a complete body-feather molt
in the late summer just prior to southbound migration (adults
also molt their flight feathers), so that they are at their freshest
and brightest in the Fall:
