The Yellow-breasted Chat offers a cascade of song in the spring, when males deliver streams of whistles, cackles, chuckles, and gurgles with the fluidity of improvisational jazz. read more
Yellow-breasted Chats have been recorded during migration in Western Washington. It is possible that the Yellow-breasted Chat is a very rare breeder in the western half of the state, but it is primarily a bird of arid eastern Washington, where it is common from May to the end of July, sometimes into mid-September. read more
American Goldfinch: Male is a small, noisy finch with a bright yellow body, black cap, wings, and tail, and white rump and undertail coverts. Wings have flashy white patches and bright yellow shoulder bar. Bill is pink and conical. Female is duller with olive back and lacks black cap and yellow shoulder bars. read more