Species Overview. Yellow-breasted Chat. Icteria virens. Family Yellow-breasted Chat Icteriidae. Code 4 YBCH. Nest Material: Dried stems, leaves, grasses, and bark pieces, lined with soft grasses, stems, and leaves.
General Yellow-breasted Chat: Very large warbler with olive-green upperparts, brilliant yellow throat and breast, and white belly and undertail. Breeding and Nesting Yellow-breasted Chat: Three to six white eggs with rust or violet flecks at large end, are laid in a bulky nest made of bark, grass, and leaves, lined with finer grass, and concealed in a dense bush. Foraging and Feeding Yellow-breasted Chat: Diet consists primarily of insects, including bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, and beetles; also eat berries and wild grapes; forages in trees and shrubs.
Readily Eats Sugar Water, Fruit, Nut Pieces Vocalization Yellow-breasted Chat: Emits an unusual series of widely spaced croaks, whistles, and short repeated phrases, unlike the typical warbler's song. Similar Species Yellow-breasted Chat: None in range. Mitch Waite Group.
No part of this web site may be reproduced without written permission from Mitch Waite Group. Leave the nest about 8 days after hatching. Normally 2 broods per year.
Insects and berries. Feeds on a wide variety of insects, including moths, beetles, bugs, ants, bees, wasps, mayflies, grasshoppers, katydids, caterpillars, and praying mantises; also spiders. Up to half of diet or more in fall may be berries and wild fruit, including blackberries, elderberries, wild grapes, and others. Wintering birds in the Northeast often come to bird-feeders, where they will take many unnatural items such as suet or peanut butter.
During courtship, male displays to female by pointing bill up and swaying from side to side. In flight song display, male flies up singing, hovers, drops slowly with its wings flapping over its back and legs dangling loosely, then returns to perch.
Occasionally nests in loose colonies. Nest: Placed ' above the ground, well concealed in dense shrub or tangled vines.
Large open cup nest is constructed by female. Outer base of dead leaves, straw, and weeds provides support for a tightly woven inner nest of vine bark, lined with fine weed stems and grass. Learn more about these drawings. Most leave our area in fall, to winter in the tropics. Every fall, however, many show up along the northeastern coast, and some of these stay through the winter, even as far north as New England.
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