Yellow-breasted chat
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"Icteria" redirects here. For the yellowing of the skin and eyes (icterus or icteric), see jaundice.
Not to be confused with Icteridae.
The yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) is a large songbird found in North America, and 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.
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Yellow-breasted chat | |
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Near the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Superfamily: | Emberizoidea |
Family: | Icteriidae Baird, 1858 |
Genus: | Icteria Vieillot, 1808 |
Species: | I. virens |
Binomial name | |
Icteria virens | |
Breeding Migration Nonbreeding | |
Synonyms | |
Turdus virens Linnaeus, 1758 |
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