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Dickcissel (Spiza americana)
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American passerine (Spiza americana, family Fringillidae) bird that eats seeds and breeds in weedy fields of the central U.S. Most dickcissels winter in northern South America, but some stray to the Atlantic coast. The male, for whose song the species is named, is a streaky brown bird 6.5 in. (16 cm) long, with a black bib on its yellow breast, resembling a miniature meadowlark.
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Researcher Stanley Temple discovered that dickcissels, members of a grain-eating, grassland-nesting species, were being directly poisoned by Venezuelan farmers who consider the birds' huge winter flocks a threat to rice and sorghum crops.
Silent Spring II by Eaton, Joe / Earth Island Journal
Of particular significance is the high abundance of and nesting by species known to be undergoing population declines," including grasshopper sparrows, vesper sparrows, and dickcissels, they report.
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