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Metadata
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


Comments
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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)