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title: "Yellow-breasted Chat"
description: "Icteria virens — Uccelli. The yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) is a large songbird in its own family, Icteriidae, that is found in North and Central America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/yellow-breasted-chat
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow-breasted Chat

> Icteria virens — Uccelli. The yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) is a large songbird in its own family, Icteriidae, that is found in North and Central America.

- Scientific name: *Icteria virens*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 15097
- Wikidata: [Q787047](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q787047)
- iNaturalist taxon: [10243](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/10243)

## Names

- en: Yellow-breasted Chat
- de: Gelbbrustwaldsänger
- es: Chipe Grande
- fr: Paruline polyglotte
- nl: Geelborstzanger
- pl: Słowikówka

## Countries with the most observations

US (11244), MX (2085), CA (564), HN (48), GT (39), BZ (26), SV (22), CR (10), BM (4), NI (3)

## Summary

The yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) 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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-breasted_chat

## Photo

![Yellow-breasted Chat](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-breasted-chat/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andy Wilson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/215816277

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-breasted-chat?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).