#icteriidae

[herpsandbirds]

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens), family Icteriidae, Knoxville, Uvalde, TX, USA

This species was once considered to be a wood warbler, in the family Parulidae, but is now placed in its own family (of which it is the only member).

They are most closely related to the blackbirds, family Icteridae.

photograph by Mick Thompson

[snailkites]

imagine you're a chat and you ditch your chat spouse to go to the chat nightclub to have a hot chat date and you see your chat spouse there who is also ditching you. wyd

(from the Yellow-breasted Chat account in Birds of the World)

[podartists]

Setophaga petechia | Vireo griseus | Icteria virens | Vireo olivaceus | Spinus tristis | Parkesia motacilla

Plate XV | Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (1891)

[iridescent-wildlife]

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens). Family Icteriidae, order Passeriformes.

South Padre Island, Texas, USA. April 2022.

[proton-wobbler]

Warbler Showdown; Bracket 10, Poll 4

Yellow-breasted Chat vs Wrenthrush

Yellow-breasted Chat

Wrenthrush

Voting ended onMar 21, 2024

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens)

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Range: migratory; breeds across the US and Mexico, though with pockets of extreme density in the Southeast US and Northwest Mexico; overwinters in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and sparsely into the rest of Central America.

Habitat: dense and shrubby vegetation, especially those found around water (though the amount of water is negligible)

Subspecies: 2

Wrenthrush (Zeledonia coronata)

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Range: resident; Costa Rica to western Panama, purely in the highlands

Habitat: montane evergreen and elfin forests, especially near streams; a big fan of wet, fog-covered regions.

Subspecies: none

Image Sources: YBCH (Connor Cochrane); wrenthrush (Leonardo Valverde)

[dendroica]

Yellow-breasted Chat, front and back (by me)

[herpsandbirds]

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens), singing, family Icteriidae, order Passeriformes, NM, USA

This species was once considered to be a wood warbler, family Parulidae, but is now placed in its own family ( it is the only member of this family.

Genetic studies suggest that their closest living relatives are the blackbirds in the family Icteridae.

photograph by Evan Barrientos

[herpsandbirds]

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens), family Icteriidae, order Passeriformes, Uvalde, TX, USA

This species was once considered to be a wood warbler, family Parulidae, but is now placed in its own family (of which it is the only member).

Genetic studies suggest that their closest living relatives are the black birds in the family Icteridae.

photograph by Mick Thompson