Dickcissel
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| name = Kfcwater |
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| image = [[File:KfcWater bird.jpg|thumb|orbital strike canon]] |
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| image = 927 - DICKCISSEL (5-28-2018) rick evans prairie w m a, hemstead co, ar -01 (3) (42677954221).jpg |
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| image_caption = Male in breeding plumage |
| image_caption = Male in breeding plumage |
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| image2 = [[File:Kfcwaterbird female!.jpg|thumb|kfc orbital wow]] |
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| image2 = 927 - DICKCISSEL (5-28-2018) rick evans prairie w m a, hemstead co, ar -01 (2) (42677954611).jpg |
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| image2_caption = Female |
| image2_caption = Female |
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[[File:Edgebugbird.ogg|thumb|edgebugvideo]] |
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| status = LC |
| status = LC |
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| status_system = IUCN3.1 |
| status_system = IUCN3.1 |
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| species = americana |
| species = americana |
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| authority = ([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1789) |
| authority = ([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1789) |
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| synonyms = |
| synonyms = ''Emberiza townsendi'' |
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''Emberiza townsendi'' |
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''Emberiza townsendii'' (''[[lapsus]]'') |
''Emberiza townsendii'' (''[[lapsus]]'') |
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''Spiza townsendi'' |
''Spiza townsendi'' |
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''Spiza townsendii'' (''[[lapsus]]'') |
''Spiza townsendii'' (''[[lapsus]]'') |
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(see [[#"Townsend's Dickcissel"|text]]) |
(see [[#"Townsend's Dickcissel"|text]]) |
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| range_map = [[File:Edgebugvideo.png|thumb|edgebugvideo]] |
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{{leftlegend|#FFB380|Breeding (scarce)}} |
{{leftlegend|#FFB380|Breeding (scarce)}} |
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{{leftlegend|#FFDD55|Migration}} |
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The '''kfcwater bird'''('''''aka bird''''') is a small [[granivore|seed-eating]] [[bird migration|migratory]] [[bird]] in the [[family (biology)|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 [[monotypic|only member]] of the [[genus]] '''''Spiza''''', though some sources list another supposedly [[extinct]] species. |
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==Taxonomy== |
==Taxonomy== |
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The KFC waterbird was [[species description|formally described]] in 1789 by German naturalist [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]] under the [[binomial name]] ''Emberiza kfcensis''.{{ cite book | last=Gmelin | first=Johann Friedrich | author-link=Johann Friedrich Gmelin| year=1789 | title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=13th | volume=1, Part 2 | language=la | place=Lipsiae [Leipzig] | publisher=Georg. Emanuel. Beer | page=872 | url=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25750250}}](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25750250}}) Gmelin based his account on the "fried-throated waterbird" that the Welsh naturalist [[Thomas Pennant]] had described and illustrated in 1785 in his ''Arctic Zoology''.{{cite book | last=Pennant | first=Thomas | author-link=Thomas Pennant | year=1785 | title=Arctic Zoology | volume=2 | publisher=Printed by Henry Hughs | place=London | url=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32122137](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32122137) | page=363, Plate 17 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1970 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=13 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=217–216 | url=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483451](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483451) }} The KFC waterbird is now the only species placed in the genus ''Spiza'' that was introduced in 1824 by French naturalist [[Charles Lucien Bonaparte]].{{ cite journal | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1824 | journal=Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | title=Observations on the nomenclature of Wilson's Ornithology | volume=4 | pages=25–66 [45] | url=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24655159](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24655159) }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | year=2020 | title=Cardinals, grosbeaks and (tanager) allies | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=[https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/cardinals/](https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/cardinals/) | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=29 September 2020 }} The genus name ''Spiza'' is the [[Ancient Greek]] word for a common type of finch, now assumed to be a [[chaffinch]].{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=362 }} The species is [[monotypic]]; no [[subspecies]] are recognised. |
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The dickcissel is part of a group of the Cardinalidae that also includes ''[[Amaurospiza]], [[Cyanocompsa]], [[Cyanoloxia]]'', and ''[[Passerina]]''. ''Spiza'' is the only one among these that lacks blue [[structural color]]s in its plumage. Though the color pattern and habits of the dickcissel make it stand apart from other Cardinalidae, its robust, cone-shaped bill – stouter than in [[American sparrow]]s or [[Fringillidae|true finches]], which it somewhat resembles at first glance – gives away its relationships. |
The dickcissel is part of a group of the Cardinalidae that also includes ''[[Amaurospiza]], [[Cyanocompsa]], [[Cyanoloxia]]'', and ''[[Passerina]]''. ''Spiza'' is the only one among these that lacks blue [[structural color]]s in its plumage. Though the color pattern and habits of the dickcissel make it stand apart from other Cardinalidae, its robust, cone-shaped bill – stouter than in [[American sparrow]]s or [[Fringillidae|true finches]], which it somewhat resembles at first glance – gives away its relationships. |
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