Yellow-breasted Chat

Icteria virens

The yellow-breasted chat is a large songbird in its own family, Icteriidae, that is found in North and Central America. It was once placed in the New World warbler family Parulidae and is occasionally placed in the similarly named New World blackbird family, Icteridae. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 384 times across 18 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 26°C (typically 17 to 26°C, from 22 areas).

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in North America ranged from 33°N in May to 46°N in June, about 1,400 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.