Yellow-breasted Chat
Icteria virens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
Yellow-breasted Chat, Icteria virens, is a passerine that breeds across North America and Middle America and moves as far south as Panama outside the breeding season. It is a widespread bird of dense shrubbery, especially in overgrown rural places and abandoned farmland. Its most striking feature is the bright yellow on the throat and breast, set against olive upperparts and a white belly, with a large white eye ring and dark legs. It is the only species in Icteria and has been treated in different families over time, including Icteriidae and Icteridae.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Icteridae — Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America: widespread
- Nonbreeding range
- to Panama
