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Photograph by Robert Scanlon
La Planada, south-western Colombia, March 2006

Vireo leucophrys

[edit] Identification

12cm

• Olive-green upperparts
• Brown crown
• Brown line through eyes
• White supercilium
• Off white face and throat
• Yellow underparts
• Olive flanks
  

Juvenile:

• Buff-brown above
• Weaker supercilium

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 12 subspecies:

• V. l. eleanorae: Sierra Madre Oriental of north-eastern Mexico (southern Tamaulipas to Hidalgo)
• V. l. bulli: Mountains of south-eastern Mexico (Oaxaca)
• V. l. amauronotus: Mountains of east-central Mexico (Puebla and Veracruz)
• V. l. strenuus: Subtropical southern Mexico (Chiapas) to Guatemala and Honduras
• V. l. chiriquensis: Subtropical Costa Rica and extreme western Panama
• V. l. disjunctus: Subtropical Central and (possibly) Western Andes of Colombia
• V. l. mirandae: Santa Marta Mountains (north-eastern Colombia) and mountains of north-western Venezuela
• V. l. dissors: Western and Central Andes of Colombia
• V. l. josephae: Central Andes of south-western Colombia (Nariño) and western Ecuador
• V. l. leucophrys: Eastern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
• V. l.s maranonicus: Western Andes of northern Peru
• V. l. laetissimus: Subtropical south-eastern Peru and northern Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba)

Subspecies chiriquensis and disjunctus are not recognised by all authorities^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Cloud forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes caterpillars, insects and small fruits.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

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