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Yellow-breasted Chat

Icteria virens

Photo by bjohnson
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Field Notes

Description:

This large songbird with the bright yellow throat. Its upperparts are olive gray and belly is white. It is a considered a large warbler.

Notes:

This lonely chat hung around our neighborhood on Chebeague for about a month in the winter and was last seen just before the temperatures went down well below 0º F.

Reference Links:

Yellow-breasted Chat, Yellow-breasted Chat, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithol…

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Comments (3)
Darwin26
Looking back my pix of the Yellow-breasted Chat in the Central Plains show some clear differences; size, black eyeliner, lighter gray but i'm sure the same crazy now ya see me now ya don't demeanor. thank you,
chebeagueschool
Is that bird on a tomato? Whatever it is it is squished so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Darwin26
i like the Apple idea! i'd like a Chat in my feeder too thank you,

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PublishedOctober 19, 2011

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