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Vireos

16 Bird Species

Bell's Vireo

This small vireo is often heard singing from deep within heavy brush. A short primary projection makes this bird appear long-tailed compared to other vireos. Western populations have slightly longer tails than eastern. The face shows indistinct spectacles, with a broken eye ring. There are two pale w more...

Length: 12 cm Wingspan: 18 cm

Black-capped Vireo

This little vireo has suffered drastic declines in the past century, and is listed as endangered. The upperparts are olive green, with two dull whitish wing bars. The male's head is black, with bold white spectacles. The female shows a similar pattern, but the head is dark gray. The underparts, inclu more...

Length: 10 cm Wingspan: 18 cm

Black-whiskered Vireo

This species gets its name from the black stripe on the edge of its throat. While this mark is distinctive, it is sometimes hard to see. The upperparts are plain olive-green. The head shows a gray crown, whitish supercilium with an indistinct dark border, and blackish eye line. The underparts are dul more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 25 cm

Blue-headed Vireo

This species, along with Cassin's Vireo and Plumbeous Vireo, was formerly known as Solitary Vireo. Blue-headed is the northern and eastern member of this complex. The back is olive green, and contrasts with the blue-gray head. The wings are blackish, with two pale yellow wing bars and yellowish edges more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 22 cm

Cassin's Vireo

The western counterpart of the Blue-headed Vireo; adult has gray head fading into white throat, white eye ring and supraloral stripe with relatively thick, slightly hooked bill. Upperparts are olive to fairly bright greenish, with two narrow pale wing bars. Flight feathers show light yellow-green mar more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 24 cm

Gray Vireo

A drab, gray bird of the arid Southwest. Adult is pale gray overall, with dark gray wings, a thin wing bar, relatively long tail, softly rounded head, faint eye ring, pale lores and throat, and blunt, gray bill. Sexes are similar. Compare especially Bell's and Plumbeous Vireos, which both have more w more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Hutton's Vireo

A small, drab bird of the west. Adult is pale olive-green overall with a creamy-yellow eye ring and lores, has a sturdy gray bill with a very slight hook at the tip, dark greenish-gray wings with pale-edged tertials, two pale wing bars, gray legs, and blue-gray feet. Head often looks disproportionate more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Philadelphia Vireo

A relatively small, compact vireo. Adult is olive-green on the back and olive-gray on the wings, with a gray crown that contrasts with the back, and dusky lores and eyeline, and a short white supercilium that arches a bit over the eye. Underparts show varying amounts of pale yellow depending on age a more...

Length: 13 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Plumbeous Vireo

A stocky, drab vireo with a bold eye ring and crisp white wingbars. Adult is cold grayish overall with white eye ring and supraloral stripe, short thick bill, whitish throat and underparts, white undertail coverts. May show a faint yellow wash on the vent. Wings are gray with two narrow white wing ba more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 25 cm

Red-eyed Vireo

A bulky, large-headed vireo. Adult is rich yellowish-green above and mostly off-white below, with a crisply patterned head and deep red eye (in good light). Crown is bluish-gray, bordered by narrow black lateral crown stripes and a whitish supercilium. Dusky gray eye line runs from the base of the bi more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 25 cm

Thick-billed Vireo

Medium-sized olive-green vireo with wingbars, best identified by diagnostic markings around the dark eye. Blackish lores are broadest right in front of the eye and taper toward the base of the bill. There is a conspicuous gap (right above the eye) between the broad, bright yellow supraloral stripe an more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 21 cm

Warbling Vireo

What this species lacks in field marks, it makes up for in boisterous singing. The upperparts are light gray with an olive cast. The face is quite plain, as the whitish supercilium lacks sharp borders and the gray line behind the eye is very indistinct. The lores are pale, unlike the similar Philadel more...

Length: 12 cm Wingspan: 22 cm

White-eyed Vireo

This little vireo gets its name from its white iris, which is fairly obvious at close range. The upperparts are olive-gray, with a contrasting pale gray nape and two white wing bars. Bright yellow spectacles surround the pale eye. The underparts are whitish, with pale yellow on the sides and flanks. more...

Length: 11 cm Wingspan: 20 cm

Yellow-green Vireo

Similar to Red-eyed and Black-whiskered Vireo. The bill is long and pale. Upperparts are yellow-green with yellow edges on the flight feathers. The crown is gray, and often lacks the black border seen on Red-eyed. A whitish supercilium lies above an indistinct dark eye line. The sides, flanks, and un more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 25 cm

Yellow-throated Vireo

A large brightly-colored vireo of Eastern North America. Unlike any other North American vireo, adult has bright yellow head and breast, lighter yellow eye ring and supraloral stripe, dark lores, stout bill, white belly, and gray wings with two white wing bars. Sexes are similar. Superficially simila more...

Length: 14 cm Wingspan: 24 cm

Yucatan Vireo

Large, drab dark-eyed vireo with over-sized bill and dark eye. Brownish upperparts with a slightly darker brown crown, bold whitish supercilium, and dark eye line. Plain brown wings with short primary extension, making the tail appear long. Thick, long, dark bill with pale base. Pale buffy-whitish th more...

Length: 15 cm Wingspan: 26 cm

Non-vegetated Areas

0 species

Salt Water

0 species

Human-altered Areas

3 species

Red-eyed Vireo

Vireo olivaceus

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Warbling Vireo

Vireo gilvus

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Oak Savannah and Woodlands, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Yellow-throated Vireo

Vireo flavifrons

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Fresh Water

6 species

Black-whiskered Vireo

Vireo altiloquus

Mangroves

Blue-headed Vireo

Vireo solitarius

Southern Wooded Swamps, Boreal Forest, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets

White-eyed Vireo

Vireo griseus

Mangroves, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia, Thickets

Yellow-green Vireo

Vireo flavoviridis

Mangroves, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia

Yellow-throated Vireo

Vireo flavifrons

Suburban/residential Landscapes, Southern Wooded Swamps, Eastern Deciduous Forest, Southeastern Pine-oak Forest, Streamside Gallery Forest and Riparia