Yellow-winged Vireo

Vireo carmioli

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 13 g

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The 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). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a gray-green crown. A whitish to buffy yellow area above the lores and eye-ring give the appearance of spectacles. Their nape and upperparts are dull greenish. Their wing coverts are dark greenish gray with wide whitish to pale yellow tips that show as two wing bars. Their primaries and secondaries are blackish gray with wide yellow-green edges. Their rectrices are blackish gray with wide greenish yellow edges on the outer webs. Voice: The yellow-winged vireo's song is "a leisurely series of two- and three-note phrases with distinct pauses between phrases". It has been written as "cheeyah, cheeyah, chipcheewee, interspersed with longer pauses". Its calls include a "nasal net" and a "chwick".

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When to see the Yellow-winged Vireo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-winged Vireo

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Yellow-winged Vireo

The yellow-winged vireo, or Carmiol's vireo, is a small passerine bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.

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