Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi), photo 1 — Photo: no rights reserved, uploaded by Dario Taraborelli · cc0

Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi), photo 2 — Photo: Justin Philbois · CC0

Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi), photo 3 — Photo: Justin Philbois · CC0

Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi), photo 4 — Photo: Dan Riley · CC BY 4.0

Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi), photo 5 — Photo: Dan Riley · CC BY 4.0

Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi), photo 6 — Photo: Blake Ross · CC BY 4.0

Cozumel Vireo (Vireo bairdi), photo 7 — Photo: Blake Ross · CC BY 4.0

What the Cozumel Vireo sounds like

Sonogram of the Cozumel Vireo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Justin Watts · Call · Cozumel, Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The Cozumel vireo is 11.5 to 12.5 cm (4.5 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 11 to 14.5 g (0.39 to 0.51 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a dark chestnut-brown crown, nape, and ear coverts. They have an off-white patch from the lores to the eye and a wide white eye-ring; together they look like spectacles. Their upperparts are light chestnut-brown. Their wing coverts are gray-brown with wide yellowish-white tips that form two bold wing bars. Voice: The Cozumel vireo's song is a "high, sharp, rapid rhythmic wietweiweit--". Its calls "include rapid scolding like that of a wren (Troglodytidae)".

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When to see the Cozumel Vireo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Cozumel Vireo

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Mexico

Recorded as a rare visitor in Costa Rica.

About the Cozumel Vireo

The Cozumel vireo is a Near Threatened species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is endemic to the Mexican island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula.

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Easily confused with

Choco VireoVireo masteriThe Choco vireo is about 12.5 cm (4.9 in) long and weighs about 11 to 11.5 g (0.39 to 0.41 oz).

Slaty VireoVireo brevipennisThe slaty vireo is 11.5 to 12 cm (4.5 to 4.7 in) long; one individual weighed 11.8 g (0.42 oz) and two others 12.3 g (0.43 oz).

Blue Mountain VireoVireo osburniThe Blue Mountain vireo is 12.5 to 15 cm (4.9 to 5.9 in) long and weighs about 20 to 22 g (0.71 to 0.78 oz).

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