The dickcissel 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,
927 DICKCISSEL rick evans prairie w m a, hemstead co, ar 01
927 DICKCISSEL rick evans prairie w m a, hemstead co, ar 01
Lithograph of "Townsend's Bunting"
Male in nonbreeding plumage - Maywood, Illinois
The eastern meadowlark is a medium-sized icterid bird, very similar in appearance to its sister species, the western meadowlark. It occurs from eastern North America to northern South America, where i
Dickcissel
…patch, a yellow breast, and grey cheeks and crown. This head and breast pattern is especially brilliant in the breeding plumage, making it resemble an eastern meadowlark. Females and juveniles are brownish on the cheeks and crown, and are somewhat similar in appearance to house sparrows; they have streaked flanks. In…
Eastern meadowlark Orange Walk
The Cuban subspecies S. m. hippocrepis (Wagler, 1832) is small and more streaked below compared to other populations