White-eyed Vireo

Vireo griseus

HOW TO IDENTIFY:

* Length: 6 inches
* Thick bill with hooked upper mandible
* Sexes similar
* 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.