White-eyed vireo Vireo griseus

Identification Tips:

• Length: 6 inches
• Thick bill with hooked upper mandible
• Sexes similar
• White eye
• Yellow spectacles and dusky lores
• Two bold whitish wing bars
• Gray-olive head and olive back
• White underparts with yellow flanks
• Wings and tail dark; flight feathers edged yellow-olive, tertials edged white
• Blue-gray legs
• Juvenile differs from adult in having dark eyes and more yellow beneath.

Similar Species:

Juvenile White-eyed Vireo can resemble Yellow-throated Vireo but has white throat. Bell's Vireo has broken eye ring, lacks yellow spectacles, usually shows fainter wing bars and has a dark eye as an adult. Empidonax flycatchers can have an olive back, wing bars, and white underparts with yellow flanks, but lack spectacles and have dark eyes.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.