Dickcissel

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Dickcissel
Male in breeding plumage
Female
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Genus:	Spiza Bonaparte, 1824
Species:	S. americana
Binomial name
Spiza americana (Gmelin, 1789)
Breeding   Breeding (scarce)   Migration   Nonbreeding   Nonbreeding (scarce)
Synonyms
Emberiza townsendi Emberiza townsendii (lapsus) Spiza townsendi Spiza townsendii (lapsus) (see text)

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. It is the only member of the genus Spiza, though some sources list another supposedly extinct species (see below).