Yellow-breasted Chat
Icteria virens
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteriidae) · Passeriformes (Passeriformes)
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Often mixed up with
In quizzes, players most often confuse Yellow-breasted Chat with these birds— either this species was picked by mistake, or the other way around.
| Species | Mix-ups |
|---|---|
| Western Spindalis Spindalis zena | 2 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo Vireo flavifrons | 1 |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus | 1 |
| Grey-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala | 1 |
Family
The yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) is a large songbird in the New World blackbirds family Icteridae that is found in North and Central America. It has sometimes been placed in its own family Icteriidae and in the New World warbler family Parulidae.
Order
A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines generally have an anisodactyl arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back), which facilitates perching. With more than 140 families and some 6,500 identified species, Passeriformes is the largest order of birds and one of the most diverse clades of terrestrial vertebrates, representing 60% of …