Viréo à tête noire vs Viréo du Choco

Vireo atricapilla compared with Vireo masteri

Key Differences

• Viréo à tête noire is Near Threatened while Viréo du Choco is Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Viréo à tête noire	Viréo du Choco
Kingdom same	Animalia (animal)	Animalia (animal)
Phylum same	Chordata (Chordates)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class same	Aves (oiseau)	Aves (oiseau)
Order same	Passeriformes (passereaux)	Passeriformes (passereaux)
Family same	Vireonidae	Vireonidae
Genus same	Vireo	Vireo
Species	Vireo atricapilla	Vireo masteri

Evolutionary Relationship

Viréo à tête noire and Viréo du Choco share a common ancestor at the Genus level: Vireo.

Conservation Status

Viréo à tête noire

NT — Near Threatened

Viréo du Choco

EN — Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Viréo à tête noire	Viréo du Choco
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Viréo à tête noire

Habitat

Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Range

Found in Norway. Listed as Near Threatened, this species requires ongoing monitoring to prevent population decline.

Viréo du Choco

Habitat

Found across multiple habitat types including tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, flooded grasslands and savannas, and montane grasslands and shrublands, among 4 distinct biome types within the Neotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, and Norway. Currently classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, this species faces significant conservation challenges across its range.

Viréo à tête noire

The Black-capped Vireo (Vireo atricapilla) is a species in the genus Vireo. It is currently classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in various aerial, terrestrial, and aquatic environments.

Viréo du Choco

The Choco Vireo (Vireo masteri) is a small, poorly known passerine in the family Vireonidae, with a highly restricted range in the western Andes foothills on the Pacific slope of Colombia and possibly adjacent Ecuador. It was described scientifically only in 1997, reflecting the challenges of survey work in the remote, wet, and botanically complex terrain of the Colombian Chocó. The Choco Vireo is a small greenish-yellow vireo with a distinctive facial pattern including a pale supercilium and dark eye-stripe. Like other vireos, it forages methodically through mid-canopy and sub-canopy foliage, gleaning caterpillars, beetles, and other invertebrates from leaves. Its song is a series of high, slurred phrases repeated with characteristic vireonid persistence. The species appears restricted to humid montane and foothill forest at elevations roughly between 800 and 1,800 metres — a zone severely impacted by the expansion of coca cultivation, illegal logging, and cattle ranching in the Colombian Pacific region. The IUCN classifies the Choco Vireo as Endangered given its extremely small and severely fragmented range and continued loss of suitable forest habitat. Very little is known about its population size, ecology, or breeding biology, making targeted survey and monitoring urgently needed.

Shared Countries

Both species can be found in 1 countries:

🇳🇴 Norway