Black-whiskered vireo Vireo altiloquus

Identification Tips:

• Length: 5 inches
• Thick bill with hooked upper mandible
• Sexes similar
• Red eye
• White supercilium bordered above by a dark line and below by a dark eye line
• Dark malar streak
• Gray crown contrasts with olive-green back and upper wings
• No wing bars
• White underparts
• Yellowish cast to flanks and undertail coverts in fresh plumage
• Blue-gray legs
• Range mostly restricted to Florida coasts
• Juvenile has brown eye and yellower underparts than adult

Similar species:

The Black-whiskered Vireo is most similar to the Red-eyed Vireo and can be distinguished by its black malar streak. Other vireos also lack the malar streak and have different face patterns.

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