Black-capped vireo Vireo atricapillus

Identification Tips:

• Length: 4 inches
• 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.

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