Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada (B), Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).
Vagrant to Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Greenland, St Pierre and Miquelon (P).
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 12,000,000 (2010).
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) [XC549200]
by Isain Contreras Rodr\u00edguez from Cibola National Wildlife Refuge (near Cibola), La Paz County, Arizona, United States (song)
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) [XC549193]
by Bobby Wilcox from Cibola National Wildlife Refuge (near Cibola), La Paz County, Arizona, United States (song)
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
auricollis (Deppe, 1830) - Breeds locally from south-western Canada (southern British Columbia and Saskatchewan) south through western USA to central Mexico. Winters mainly in Mexico and Guatemala.
virens (Linnaeus, 1758) - Breeds extreme south-eastern Canada (extreme south-eastern Ontario) and locally eastern USA (from North Dakota and southern Great Lakes south to Texas and northern Florida) and north-eastern Mexico. Winters mainly eastern Mexico south to western Panama.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet