Yellow-breasted Chat Images

Yellow-breasted Chat Images, Facts and Information:

Icteria virens

• Yellow-breasted Chats are very large warblers with olive-green upperparts, brilliant yellow throats and breasts with white bellies and undertails. Their eyes have thick white spectacles with dark eye patches. Wings and tails are dark olive-green.
• Yellow-breasted Chats are migratory. They breed from British Columbia, Ontario, and Massachusetts south to California, the Gulf Coast and Florida and most of the U.S. States. Yellow-breasted Chats winter in the tropics including southern Mexico. Their preferred habitat includes dense thickets, brush, swamps, marshes, streamside tangles and dry brushy hillsides.
• Yellow-breasted Chats eat bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, beetles, berries and wild grapes.
• Yellow-breasted Chats lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 11 to 12 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• Groups of warblers can be called a “confusion”, “fall” and “bouquet” of warblers.
• Yellow-breasted Chats can live to be more than 11 years of age.

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