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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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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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in March · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
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).
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).
Yucatan VireoVireo magisterThe Yucatan vireo is about 15 cm (5.9 in) long and weighs about 13.5 to 25 g (0.48 to 0.88 oz).
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