Yellow-throated vireo
Vireo flavifrons
Identification Tips:
- Length: 5 inches
- Thick bill with hooked upper mandible
- Dark eye
- Bold yellow spectacles
- Bright yellow throat and upper breast
- Olive head and back
- White belly and undertail coverts
- Gray rump
- Wings and tail dark
- Blue-gray legs
- Two bold white wing bars
- Sexes similar
- Juvenile similar to adult
Similar Species:
No other vireo combines white wing bars,
yellow throat and yellow spectacles. Juvenile White-eyed
Vireo is similar but does not have a yellow throat. Pine
Warbler has similar plumage, but lacks spectacles, and has a
thinner bill, faintly streaked sides, and white tail spots.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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