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Dickcissel (Spiza americana) 
| Subject:  | Dickcissel (Spiza americana)  
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 Title: Dickcissel  
 Alternative Title: Spiza americana  
 Creator: Maslowski, Steve  
 Source: WO-4543-16 
 Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
 Contributor: DIVISION OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 
 Language: EN - ENGLISH 
 Rights: (public domain) 
 Audience: (general) 
 Subject: bird
 Date Issued: January 28 2002
 
 
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 The Dickcissel (Spiza americana) is a small seed-eating migratory 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. The male dickcissel’s song has been described as a sharp “dick” followed by a buzzed “cissel”. The scientific name of the species, Spiza americana, translates to “American finch”. The dickcissel is the only member of the genus Spiza, though some sources list another supposedly extinct species.
 
 Order: Passeriformes
 Family: Cardinalidae
 Genus: Spiza Bonaparte, 1824
 Species: Spiza americana (Gmelin, 1789)
 Synonyms
  - Emberiza townsendi
  - Emberiza townsendii (lapsus)
  - Spiza townsendi
  - Spiza townsendii (lapsus)   |   
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