Tepui Vireo

About the Tepui Vireo

The tepui vireo, or tepui greenlet, (Vireo sclateri) is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. The tepui vireo was originally described in 1883 as Hylophilus sclateri. Based on a 2014 publication, taxonomic systems reassigned it to genus Vireo. During its time in genus Hylophilus it was called the tepui greenlet.

The tepui vireo is monotypic. The tepui vireo is 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 10 to 12.5 g (0.35 to 0.44 oz). The sexes have almost the same plumage. Adults have a buffy forehead and lores on an otherwise gray face. Their crown and nape are gray and their upperparts olive-green. Their wings are gray with thin paler gray edges on the outer webs of the primaries and secondaries. Their tail is deep gray with paler edges on the feathers' outer webs. Their chin and throat are white, their breast yellow with greenish yellow sides, their flanks greenish yellow, their belly dull white, and their vent white or yellow-tinged white. The yellow of the breast forms a band that in males is more sharply defined than in females. Both sexes... Wikipedia →