
The upperparts of the yellow-breasted chat are greenish brown, or you could call it olive gray. There are white “spectacles” around the eye and on the upper and lower margins of the lores (the zone between the eye and the upper base of the beak). The lores are black in males and gray in females. Adult underparts are bright yellow to intense orange on the throat and breast. Belly and under tail feathers are white. Tail long; bill heavy. This is our largest warbler. The song competes with that of the northern mockingbird for variety and duration, but with longer pauses between phrases. Chats sit on high perches to sing, uttering a wide variety of mews, chats, whistles, and stutters. Often they fly up into the air and descend with their wings slowly flapping, touching at top and bottom of each stroke, with legs dangling below. Call is a sharp chat or tschat.

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