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title: "Chivi Vireo"
description: "Vireo chivi — Vogels. The chivi vireo (Vireo chivi) is a small South American songbird in the family Vireonidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/chivi-vireo
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Chivi Vireo

> Vireo chivi — Vogels. The chivi vireo (Vireo chivi) is a small South American songbird in the family Vireonidae.

- Scientific name: *Vireo chivi*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 2795
- iNaturalist taxon: [827395](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/827395)

## Names

- en: Chivi Vireo
- de: Chivivireo
- es: Chiví Chiví
- fr: Viréo chivi

## Countries with the most observations

BR (1125), AR (725), EC (130), PE (109), CO (77), VE (47), BO (45), UY (39), TT (28), GF (16), GY (15), PY (12)

## Summary

The chivi vireo (Vireo chivi) is a small South American songbird in the family Vireonidae. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the red-eyed vireo. It is usually green to yellow-green in color with off-white underparts, and a gray crown. It has a whitish supercilium extending over its ear coverts, and its lores are dull gray in color.  The chivi vireo has nine subspecies. It is found throughout most of northern, eastern and central South America, only being absent from southern Chile and southern Argentina. It inhabits multiple types of habitat across its range, and appears to adjust well to slightly disturbed…

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

## Photo

![Chivi Vireo](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chivi-vireo/medium.jpg)

Photo: NINA WENÓLI · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/255211922

## Machine access

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