Alternative name: Baird's Vireo
- Vireo bairdi
Identification
11.5-12.5 cm.
- Dark chestnut-brown crown
- Off-white broad eyering and area above lores, giving an obvious spectacled impression
- Dull chestnut-brown ear-coverts
- Light chestnut-brown upperparts
- Dull grey-brown flight-feathers, primaries and secondaries edged with dull greenish or olive-yellow on outer webs, tertials edged whitish,
- Two prominent yellowish-white wing-bars
- Dull brownish-grey tail
- Off-white chin, throat and chest, side of chest chestnut-brown or cinnamon-brown
- Off-white belly and vent, brownish flanks
Sexes similar, juveniles are more pale than adults with duller brown side of chest, not chestnut or cinnamon.
Distribution
Endemic to Cozumel Island (off northeast Yucatán Peninsula), southeast Mexico.
A fairly common restricted-range species.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Habitat
Scrubby woodland, second growth, old farmland with some bushes and thickets in deciduous woodland.
Behaviour
Diet
No details. Forages in lower and middle levels of vegetation.
Breeding
Breeding season from May to July. The nest is an open cap suspended from forked lateral branches of small trees and made of plant fibres, decomposed leaves and spider silk. Lays 2 to 3 eggs.
Movements
This is a sedentary species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2014)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Cozumel Vireo. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Cozumel_Vireo
