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title: "Black-whiskered Vireo"
description: "Vireo altiloquus — Birds. The black-whiskered vireo (Vireo altiloquus) is a small passerine bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/black-whiskered-vireo
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Black-whiskered Vireo

> Vireo altiloquus — Birds. The black-whiskered vireo (Vireo altiloquus) is a small passerine bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers.

- Scientific name: *Vireo altiloquus*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 1234
- Wikidata: [Q2667746](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2667746)
- iNaturalist taxon: [17399](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/17399)

## Names

- en: Black-whiskered Vireo
- de: Bartvireo
- es: Vireo bigotudo
- fr: Viréo à moustaches
- nl: Baardvireo
- pt: Juruviara-barbuda
- pl: Wireonek wąsaty

## Countries with the most observations

US (325), PR (179), DO (134), CU (102), MQ (53), GP (39), JM (33), LC (24), CO (22), BS (19), BR (18), MX (17)

## Summary

The black-whiskered vireo (Vireo altiloquus) is a small passerine bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Florida, the Bahamas, many Caribbean islands, and northern and Amazonian South America.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-whiskered_vireo

## Photo

![Black-whiskered Vireo](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-whiskered-vireo/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Jackson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193329833

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-whiskered-vireo?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).