Golden Vireo vs Yellow-winged Vireo

Golden Vireo

Vireo hypochryseus

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The golden vireo is about 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs an average of 12.2 g (0.43 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a wide lemon yellow supercilium and streak above the lores with a dark streak through the eye. Their upperparts and tail are yellowish olive-green. Their flight feathers are dark brownish gray with pale yellowish olive edges; by the outer primaries the edges have lightened to pale gray or grayish white. Their underparts are lemon yellow with a pale olive green tinge on the flanks. Voice: The golden vireo's song is "a rapid series of bright notes, the last usually sharply inflected upwards, whee-whee-whee-wheet or jujujujujeet, at times preceded and followed by a sharp chip, tsik, deeu-deeu-deeu-deeu-deeu-deeu tik".

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Yellow-winged Vireo

Vireo carmioli

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The yellow-winged vireo is 11 to 11.5 cm (4.3 to 4.5 in) long and weighs about 13 to 15 g (0.46 to 0.53 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a gray-green crown. A whitish to buffy yellow area above the lores and eye-ring give the appearance of spectacles. Their nape and upperparts are dull greenish. Their wing coverts are dark greenish gray with wide whitish to pale yellow tips that show as two wing bars. Their primaries and secondaries are blackish gray with wide yellow-green edges. Their rectrices are blackish gray with wide greenish yellow edges on the outer webs. Voice: The yellow-winged vireo's song is "a leisurely series of two- and three-note phrases with distinct pauses between phrases". It has been written as "cheeyah, cheeyah, chipcheewee, interspersed with longer pauses". Its calls include a "nasal net" and a "chwick".

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