Yellow-breasted Chat Range Map

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Migration

Long-distance migrant. Some migrate over land while others fly across the Gulf of Mexico, traveling nocturnally in small groups or singly. In the arid West, one migration corridor may be the cottonwood-willow habitat along the San Pedro River in Arizona.

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