Yellow-breasted Chat

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Yellow-breasted Chat

7/6/2021

Species: Yellow-breasted Chat
Most recent capture date: 6/10/2021
Sex: Female
Age: 2 years old

Notes: This bird, captured at one of our satellite banding locations, is really special. Not only is she an unusual species for us; when we examined her, we found a brood patch, meaning that she was breeding - the first record of a breeding Yellow-breasted Chat in the county! Here's hoping her nest is successful and we have more of these beautiful chats around in the future.

3 Comments

Kevin E Melby

3/6/2024 09:40:50 am

I just saw what I think were two babies in my backyard eating from our feeder in Dublin, Ca.

Kevin E Melby

3/6/2024 09:43:09 am

I am not entirely sure, they may have been Western Kingbirds. I did not get a close look, I only noticed the "parakeet" ish features and the yellow belly.

Rosemary

6/23/2025 05:20:37 pm

I think I have a n active Yellow Breasted Chat nest in my yard! I hear the chicks and see the adults fly in and feed the nestlings. I’m in Palo Alto. Familiär with gold finch but these are different. Have never seen them here before — never noticed before

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You never know who you'll catch when you're bird banding! We wanted to share that sense of surprise, so we'll be posting here some of the birds we catch in the course of our research. Some birds will be here because they are unusual in some way; others just because they took a nice photo.

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We are biologists who study landbirds in the south San Francisco Bay Area through bird banding at Coyote Creek Field Station. We have extensive training (and official permits) for our bird handling, and we prioritize bird safety over all else.

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