yellow-breasted chat

[ yel-oh-bres-tid ]

noun

1. an American warbler, Icteria virens, having a yellow throat and breast and greenish-brown upper parts and noted for imitating the songs of other species.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow-breasted chat¹

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30

Example Sentences

Yellow-breasted chat: “The yellow-breasted chat offers a cascade of song in the spring, when males deliver streams of whistles, cackles, chuckles and gurgles with the fluidity of improvisational jazz,” according to AllAboutBirds.org.

From Washington Times

One of Audubon's most criticized poses was that of a particular yellow-breasted chat.

From Scientific American

Like the yellow-breasted chat, the catbird likes to hide its nest in a tangle of cat brier along the roadside undergrowth and in bushy, woodland thickets.

From Project Gutenberg

Across the garden I heard my first song from that unique rhapsodist, the yellow-breasted chat.

From Project Gutenberg

For several years I had been trying to know the most eccentric bird in North America,—the yellow-breasted chat.

From Project Gutenberg