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Dickcissel
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Dickcissel
Spiza americana
The dickcissel (Spiza americana) is a small American seed-eating bird in the family Cardinalidae. It breeds on the prairie grasslands of the midwestern United States and winters in Central America, northern Colombia and northern Venezuela. It is the only member of the genus Spiza, though some sources list another supposedly extinct species (see below).
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 10676.