| White-eyed Vireo Identification Tips |
| (Credit: U. S. Geological Survey) |
| General
Information - Thick bill with hooked upper mandible - Sexes similar - White eye - Yellow spectacles and dusky lores - Two bold whitish wing bars - Gray-olive head and olive back - White underparts with yellow flanks - Wings and tail dark; flight feathers edged yellow-olive, tertials edged white - Blue-gray legs - Juvenile differs from adult in having dark eyes and more yellow beneath. Similar Species Juvenile White-eyed Vireo can resemble Yellow-throated Vireo but has white throat. Bell's Vireo has broken eye ring, lacks yellow spectacles, usually shows fainter wing bars and has a dark eye as an adult. Empidonax flycatchers can have an olive back, wing bars, and white underparts with yellow flanks, but lack spectacles and have dark eyes. |
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