Hutton's vireo
Vireo huttoni
Identification Tips:
- Incomplete white eye ring-broken at top
- Dark eye
- White wing bars
- Olive-gray upperparts
- Olive-gray wash to breast, whiter on belly
- Thick bill with hooked upper mandible
- Sexes similar
- Juveniles similar to adults
- Southwest birds are grayer than coastal birds
Similar Species:
The nondescript Hutton's Vireo can be told from other vireos and warblers
by its incomplete white eye ring. It is remarkably similar in plumage to the
Ruby-crowned Kinglet but the kinglet is smaller with a much thinner bill.