Flat-billed Vireo

Vireo nanus

Least ConcernRareInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestTiny · 11 g

About the Flat-billed Vireo

The flat-billed vireo is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola that is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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The flat-billed vireo is 12 to 13 cm (4.7 to 5.1 in) long and weighs about 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a greenish gray forehead, crown and nape, dark gray lores, a pale olive-yellow strip above the lores, and a broken olive-yellow eye-ring. Their upperparts are greenish gray. Their wing coverts are blackish gray with off-white tips that form two wing bars. Their flight feathers are a darker gray than the back; the primaries and secondaries have thin gray-green edges on the outer webs and the tertials have wider gray-green edges on both webs. Voice: The flat-billed vireo's song is a "hattering, high-pitched weet-weet-weet- etc., often repeated". Its calls include a "harsh scolding note".

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Where it lives

Regular range

When to see it

Peak activity in March · a variable species across most of its range

Easily confused with

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