Yellow-breasted Chat

• Its classification was a puzzle for more than a century: too large and with too odd a song to fit among the warblers, in 2017 it ended up in a family of its own with a single species worldwide.
• Its song is a disorderly sequence of whistles, grunts, clicks and squawks with no fixed pattern, closer to a mockingbird's than to a small bird's, and it sometimes gives it in flight or at night.
• It is extraordinarily shy: it sings from inside the densest bramble patch and stops as soon as it detects movement, so that many observers hear it dozens of times before seeing it once.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Dense scrub, brambles, forest edges and hedgerows of North America; winters in Central America

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

11 days

Litter / clutch size

5

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Icteria virens