Yellow-breasted chat
| Yellow-breasted chat | |
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| Near the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Superfamily: | Emberizoidea |
| Family: | Icteriidae Baird, 1858 |
| Genus: | Icteria Vieillot, 1808 |
| Species: | I. virens
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| Binomial name | |
| Icteria virens | |
Breeding Migration Nonbreeding
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| Synonyms | |
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Turdus virens Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) is a large songbird found in North and Central America; it is the only member of the family Icteriidae. It was once a member of the New World warbler family Parulidae, but in 2017, the American Ornithological Society moved it to its own family. Its placement is not definitively resolved.