Golden Vireo

Vireo hypochryseus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicInvertebratesShrublandTiny · 12 g

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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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When to see the Golden Vireo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Golden Vireo

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Golden Vireo

The golden vireo, or golden greenlet, is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is endemic to Mexico.

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Easily confused with

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