Yellow-breasted chat Icteria virens

Identification Tips:

• Length: 6.25 inches
• The largest warbler
• Thick bill
• White spectacles
• Yellow throat and breast
• Whitish belly and undertail coverts
• Olive upperparts
• Fairly long tail
• Dark legs
• Females and males similar in plumage

Similar species:

The Yellow-breasted Chat is much larger than any other warbler. Its yellow throat and breast, olive upperparts and white spectacles make it unlikely to be confused with any other bird.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.