- The Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria Virens) is a large, bulky songbird found in Southern Arizona's dense riparian thickets and cottonwood-willow habitats, such as along the San Pedro River - Breeds abundantly across Southern Arizona’s riparian corridors from spring through late summer before migrating south to Mexico and Central America - While it looks and moves somewhat like a warbler, this unique bird is actually the sole member of its own family, Icteriidae