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).
Population
Estimated population is 12,000,000 (2010).
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) [XC766368]
by Paul Marvin from Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge, Cochise County, Arizona, United States (call)
Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) [XC579919]
by Manuel Grosselet from San Simon Cienega, Cochise 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.