Black-whiskered vireo Vireo altiloquus

Identification Tips:

• Thick bill with hooked upper mandible
• Sexes similar

Adult:

• 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:

• Brown eye
• 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.