About the Cuban Vireo
The Cuban vireo is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is endemic to Cuba.
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The Cuban vireo is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weighs about 11 to 15 g (0.39 to 0.53 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies V. g. gundlachii have an olive-gray crown, nape, and ear coverts. They have a yellow or creamy white patch from lores through the eye and a grayish yellow area from the bill to the ear coverts. Their upperparts are olive-gray. Their wing coverts are brownish gray with small whitish or pale grayish tips that form two faint wing bars. Voice: The Cuban vireo's song is a "igh, oft-repeated wi-chiví, wi-chiví, wi-chiví...". It also makes "a rapid descending series of chi notes, a scolding kik, a soft rattling call, and in spring courtship, a rapid repeated wheet".
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Where it lives
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.
When to see it
Peak activity in February · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Puerto Rican VireoVireo latimeriThe Puerto Rican vireo is a small bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico and one of the 31 species belonging to the genus Vireo of the family Vireonidae.
Yellow-winged VireoVireo carmioliThe 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).
Thick-billed VireoVireo crassirostrisThe thick-billed vireo is 11.5 to 13.4 cm (4.5 to 5.3 in) long and weighs about 11 to 16 g (0.39 to 0.56 oz).
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