Yellow-green Vireo

Vireo flavoviridis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestSmall · 18 g

What the Yellow-green Vireo sounds like

Sonogram of the Yellow-green Vireo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Call · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Yellow-green Vireo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Call · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Yellow-green Vireo: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Call · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The adult yellow-green vireo is 14–14.7 cm in length and weighs 18.5 g. It has olive-green upperparts and a dusky-edged gray crown. There is a dark line from the bill to the red-brown eyes, and a white supercilium. The underparts are white with yellow breast sides and flanks. Young birds are duller with brown eyes, a brown tint to the back, and less yellow on the underparts. The adult yellow-green vireo differs from the red-eyed vireo in its much yellower underparts, lack of a black border to the duller gray crown, yellower upperparts and different eye color.

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When to see the Yellow-green Vireo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-green Vireo

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 4 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 Brazil, Guadeloupe, Aruba, Bermuda.

About the Yellow-green Vireo

The yellow-green vireo is a small American passerine bird. It is migratory breeding from Mexico to Panama and wintering in the northern and eastern Andes and the western Amazon Basin.

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Easily confused with

Side by side: Plumbeous Vireo vs Yellow-green Vireo · Brown-capped Vireo vs Yellow-green Vireo · Black-whiskered Vireo vs Yellow-green Vireo · Mangrove Vireo vs Yellow-green Vireo

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