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Yellow-breasted Chat
| Color: |
Yellow |
| Size: |
7.5" |
| Season: |
Summer |
| Description: |
A large, distinctive warbler. White spectacles and moustache stripe stand out against the yellow throat and breast. Also note the thick bill and rounded tail. |
| Voice: |
An loud, unmusical series of chirps, whistles, croaks, squeaks, and scolds with pauses in between notes. The song may include imitations of other birds like Blue Jays.
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| Habitat: |
Dense shrubby areas such as old pastures, abandoned agricultural fields, aging clearcuts, powerline rights-of-way, streamsides, and forest clearings. |
| Interesting Fact: |
Though long considered an over-sized warbler, the Yellow-breasted Chat has recently been shown not to belong to that family after all. No one, however, at this point is quite sure where it does belong. |
| Scientific name: |
Icteria virens |
| Order: |
Passeriformes |
| Family: |
Parulidae |
Adult Ryan Brady |
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