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Yellow-breasted Chat

Icteria virensOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
Yellow-breasted Chat Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: All-purpose
  • Eye Color: Dark brown or hazel.
  • Head Pattern: Eyeline, Plain, Eyering (complete or broken), Malar or malar stripe
  • Crown Color: Dark olive-green
  • Forehead Color: Dark olive-green
  • Nape Color: Dark olive-green
  • Throat Color: Yellow
  • Cere color: No Data
Yellow-breasted Chat Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 18 cm (7.25 in)
  • Weight: 26 g (0.9 oz)
  • Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
  • Color: White, Gray, Yellow, Olive
  • Underparts: Yellow with white belly.
  • Upperparts: Dark olive-green
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Weak fluttering flights of short duration.
  • Wingspan Range: 23-25 cm (9-10 in)
  • Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Dark olive-green
  • Under Tail: Dark olive-green
  • Leg Color: Gray
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Family Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Icteria virens
Length7.25 Inches
Wingspan9.5 Inches

Yellow-breasted Chat

Yellow-breasted Chat: The largest North American warbler. Has olive-green to olive-gray upperparts, brilliant yellow throat, breast. Belly and undertail are white. Eyes have white spectacles and dark eye patches. Bill is heavy and dark. Wings and tail are olive-green. Bill, legs, and feet are black.

● Song: "caw", "cheow", "hair"

● Foraging & Feeding: Yellow-breasted Chat: Diet consists primarily of insects, including bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, and beetles; also eat berries and wild grapes; forages in trees and shrubs.

● Breeding & nesting: Yellow-breasted Chat: Three to six white eggs with rust or violet flecks at large end, are laid in a bulky nest made of bark, grass, and leaves, lined with finer grass, and concealed in a dense bush. Incubation ranges from 11 to 12 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Yellow-breasted Chat: None in range.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flights of short duration.
Yellow-breasted Chat Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Yellow-breasted Chat: Breeds from British Columbia, Ontario, and (rarely) Massachusetts south to California, the Gulf Coast, and Florida. Spends winters in the tropics. Preferred habitats include dense thickets and brush, often with thorns, streamside tangles, and dry brushy hillsides.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
Population
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.9 Ounces