Black-capped vireo
Vireo atricapillus
Identification Tips:
- White spectacles
- Red eye
- Black cap (somewhat paler in females and immatures)
- Yellow wing bars
- White underparts with yellowish flanks
- Olive upparparts
- Thick bill with hooked upper mandible
- Sexes similar
- Juveniles similar to adults
- Restricted range in Texas and Oklahoma
Similar species:
The bold white spectacles against the contrasting black cap are diagnostic.
Solitary Vireo has a gray head. Yellow-throated and White-eyed Vireos have
yellow spectacles and much paler heads.