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Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo
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Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo

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Yellow-browed Shrike-Vireo

Vireolanius eximius

The yellow-browed shrike-vireo (Vireolanius eximius) is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela.

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Description

The yellow-browed shrike-vireo is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage though that of females is duller than males'. They have a sky-blue forehead, crown, and nape with some greenish in the rear of the crown. They have a bright lemon-yellow supercilium from the bill well past the eye and a patch of the same color under the eye. Their lores are dull gray-black and their ear coverts emerald-green. Their upperparts are emerald-green. Their flight feathers are mostly dark gray with wide emerald-green edges on the outer webs of the primaries and secondaries and lemon-yellow edges on the inner webs of the tertials. Their tail is dull emerald-green. Their chin and throat are lemon-yellow and the rest of their underparts are a more greenish yellow. They have a dark iris, a blackish maxilla, a horn-gray mandible, and dull gray-brown legs and feet.

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Range & habitat

The yellow-browed shrike-vireo has a disjunct distribution. Its main range extends from Darién Province in eastern Panama into northwestern Colombia as far south as Meta Department and east almost to Venezuela. It is found on both slopes of the Serranía del Perijá on the Colombia/Venezuela border and in the Venezuelan state of Zulia. It inhabits lowland and montane evergreen forest in the tropical and lower subtropical zones. In Panama it is found below 1,000 m (3,300 ft). In Colombia it reaches 1,500 m (4,900 ft). In Venezuela it mostly ranges between 350 and 1,250 m (1,100 and 4,100 ft) but has been recorded once at 1,700 m (5,600 ft).

Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”

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What it does

The yellow-browed shrike-vireo's diet is not known but is assumed to be similar to that of the green shrike-vireo, which see here. It usually forages in the forest canopy and often joins mixed-species feeding flocks.

Wikipedia: “Feeding”

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 17416.