Dickcissel Spiza americana
Identification Tips:
Length: 5.75 inches
Large, pale bill
Rusty shoulder patch ...
The Dickcissel (Spiza americana) breeds across much of the central United States and occasionally in northern Mexico and southern Canada. The species winters in northern South America.
Dickcissel Behaviour
No observations regarding Dickcissel behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Dickcissels ...
Dickcissel
(Spiza americana)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Likely but not confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed ...
Dickcissel
Spiza americana (Gmelin)
Status Uncommon vagrant. The first record was of a bird collected on Sable Island on 12 September 1902 (Dwight 1903).
Dickcissel
(Spiza americana)
Photo from the Breeding Bird Survey Page at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center ...
Dickcissel Spiza americana Found: The Americas
Photographed by: 1) Charles Brutlag 2) Laurie L. Snidow 3) Patti McNeal ...
Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
Pyrrhuloxia (Cardinalis sinuatus)
FAMILY EMBERIZIDAE: SUBFAMILY EMBERIZINAE: Towhees, Sparrows, Juncos, and Longspurs ...
Dickcissel
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Mourning Dove
Summer Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Dickcissel Spiza americana. Breeder. Uncommon to locally fairly common in spring and summer, and fairly common in fall in Inland Coastal Plain. In Tennessee Valley, fairly common in spring, summer, and fall, and occasional in winter.
LONGSPUR: Dickcissel, Towhees, Sparrows, Juncos, Longspurs: Eggs, Incubation and Fledging Times ...
BLACK-THROATED BUNTING.
[Dickcissel.]
EMBERIZA AMERICANA, Gmel.
[Spiza americana.] ...
Blue Grosbeak (Guiraca caerulea)
Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) ...
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Pheucticus ludovicianus
Black-headed Grosbeak - Pheucticus melanocephalus
Lazuli Bunting - Passerina amoena
Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea
Painted Bunting - Passerina ciris
Dickcissel - Spiza americana ...
The relationship between the cardinals and grosbeaks is easy to imagine (despite the presence of a "grosbeak" among the finches), but the buntings look like they belong with the finches. Then the dickcissel appears to be almost suae familiae.
In the Midwest the dickcissel, which winters in Central and South America, is valued as a destroyer of grasshoppers.
 See also: Sparrow, Cardinal, Grosbeak, Purple, Warbler
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