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title: "Dickcissel"
description: "Spiza americana — Vogels. The dickcissel (Spiza americana) is a small seed-eating migratory bird in the family Cardinalidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/dickcissel
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Dickcissel

> Spiza americana — Vogels. The dickcissel (Spiza americana) is a small seed-eating migratory bird in the family Cardinalidae.

- Scientific name: *Spiza americana*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Weiden en velden)
- iNaturalist observations: 16938
- Wikidata: [Q1210224](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1210224)
- iNaturalist taxon: [10676](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/10676)

## Names

- en: Dickcissel
- de: Rotschulterkardinal
- es: Arrocero americano
- fr: Dickcissel d'Amérique
- nl: Dickcissel
- pt: Papa-capim-americano
- pl: Łuszczyk czarnogardły

## Countries with the most observations

US (14250), MX (680), CA (613), CR (62), PA (57), HN (46), SV (44), NI (23), CO (19), BZ (10), TT (7), VE (5)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickcissel

## Photo

![Dickcissel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dickcissel/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kent P. McFarland · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2339195

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/dickcissel?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).