White-eyed vireo Vireo griseus

Identification Tips:

• Thick bill with hooked upper mandible
• Sexes similar

Adult:

• 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.