Blue Mountain Vireo

About the Blue Mountain Vireo

The Blue Mountain vireo (Vireo osburni) is a Near Threatened species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is endemic to Jamaica. The Blue Mountain vireo was originally described in 1861 as Laletes osburni. Its specific epithet honors Mr. W. Osburn, who collected the type specimen.

The Blue Mountain vireo is monotypic. The Blue Mountain vireo is 12.5 to 15 cm (4.9 to 5.9 in) long and weighs about 20 to 22 g (0.71 to 0.78 oz). This is a rather robust vireo. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly gray-brown head with a plain face and yellow-tinged off-white chin and throat. Their upperparts are gray-brown with an olive tinge from the middle of the back to the rump. Their primaries and secondaries are gray-brown with grayish green edges on the outer webs. Their rectrices are gray-brown with greenish edges on the outer webs. Their upper breast is mottled yellowish and grayish brown, their lower breast and belly yellowish white with faint grayish mottling, their flanks brighter yellow, and their vent yellowish white. They have a brown iris, a heavy bill with a blackish maxilla and a... Wikipedia →