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Photo by noddingdogbob
Photo taken: Cayman Brac.

Vireo crassirostris

[edit] Identification

14cm. Olive-green upperparts, brown or grey-brown iris, broken dull yellow spectacles, pale yellow underparts, white undertail, brown wings with two white bars, large, grey bill. Sexes similar.

[edit] Distribution

The Caribbean and the Bahamas; a vagrant to Southeastern Florida and the Florida Keys.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Dense undergrowth and thickets.

[edit] Behaviour

It builds a cup shaped nest, lined with grass, attached to a fork in a tree or bush branch. 2-3 dark-spotted white eggs are laid. Both the male and female incubate the eggs.

The diet is exclusively insects.

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