A relatively large, skulking, superficially warbler-like bird. Adult has bright lemon-yellow throat and breast, dark gray face with white eye crescents and supraloral spot, plain olive-green upperparts, white belly and undertail coverts, and heavy black bill.

Length: 19 (cm) Wingspan: 25 (cm)

Voice:

Loud and distinctive; various trills, whistles, and harsh kacks, repeated at slow intervals. Often sings all night long early in the breeding season. Compare to mockingbirds and orioles.

Habitat:

Open areas with dense brushy thickets: overgrown clearcuts, riparian areas, vegetated lakeshores.

Behavior:

Skulks in thickets of dense vegetation, rarely coming into view. More often heard than seen. Males sometimes sing from exposed perches, or sing in short flights. Typically alone or in pairs. Nest is a loose cup lined with fine grasses, placed in dense shrub or tree. Taxonomic relationships are unclear; may be more closely related to blackbirds than warblers.

Feeding:

Gleans low foliage for a variety of insects and small fruit.