Sunday, May 17, 2026

More chat details in GWC Sylvan water South low slope

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1)
- Reported May 17, 2026 09:35 by Laura Silverstein
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S341198381
- Comments: "By the Sylvan Pond. Very showy on the ground and the bench. Took photos, others near us have better ones but can provide:"

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1)
- Reported May 17, 2026 07:14 by Barbara S
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S341234497
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Found by Michele. Unmistakable, but behaving very unlike a chat, out in the open and feeding in the grass, not disturbed by the excited group of observers. Photos."

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1)
- Reported May 17, 2026 06:55 by Susie Dippel
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S341198814
- Media: 1 Video
- Comments: "Bright yellow throat and chest, spectacle eyes. Perhaps a first year bird, did not mind giving looks or having a crowd admire it. Found by Michele 


Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1)
- Reported May 17, 2026 10:59 by Xinyi Z
- Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6523083,-73.9904281&ll=40.6523083,-73.9904281
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S341320276
- Comments: "Flagged: rare, especially in spring. Great find by the Michelles’ Brooklyn Bird Club walk earlier, and a remarkably cooperative  individual, sometimes moving out onto the grass in the open like a robin. At S end of Sylvan. Photos."

Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) (1)
- Reported May 17, 2026 15:12 by Coco D
- Green-Wood Cemetery--Sylvan Water, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6537472,-73.9986235&ll=40.6537472,-73.9986235
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S341353711
- Comments: "Continuing individual; re-found by me at SW of Sylvan Water. Unmistakable; medium sized (between a redstart and a robin), yellow breast, dark eye stripe with white around the eye."



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