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The 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). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies V. c. crassirostris have a mostly grayish olive to brownish olive crown, face, and nape with blackish lores, a pale yellow stripe above the lores, and a pale to darker yellow eye-ring that sometimes is incomplete. Their upperparts are grayish olive to brownish olive with a more olive-green rump and uppertail coverts. Their wing coverts are dusky grayish brown with wide white tips that form two prominent wing bars. Voice: The thick-billed vireo's song is a "ubbly, variable chik-didle-wer-chip". Only males sing.
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When to see the Thick-billed Vireo
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Thick-billed Vireo
The map shades 5 countries 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.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.
About the Thick-billed Vireo
The thick-billed vireo is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found on many islands of the West Indies and as an occasional vagrant to south Florida in the United States.
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Easily confused with
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).
Golden VireoVireo hypochryseusThe 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).
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).
Side by side: Thick-billed Vireo vs Yucatan Vireo · Golden Vireo vs Thick-billed Vireo · Thick-billed Vireo vs Yellow-winged Vireo
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