Bird

Dickcissel

Spiza americana

A summer resident that nests in North Carolina. Found in 92 of 100 counties, across 2 habitats.

Here: Summer and on migration
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 92 of 100 counties
Habitats: 2

Male Dickcissel, whole bird — **Male**. (c) Dan Vickers, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 464992588. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Summer and on migration
Nesting: Nests here
Range: 92 of 100 counties
Habitats: 2
Habitat models: Summer

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in North Carolina 2

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

1 of 2

SummerDeveloped, Open Space; Cultivated Cropland; Pasture/Hay; Disturbed/Successional - Grass/Forb Regeneration; Utility Swath - Herbaceous; Ruderal Upland - Old FieldLyell Carr, Black Mountain: a pasture and hayfield with a log barn, rail fence and grazing cow below the Black Mountains. Black Mountain, North Carolina (Lyell E. Carr)*Black Mountainlabel QS:Len,"Black Mountain"*, Lyell Carr, c. 1890-1912. Public domain. Source record.

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Summer

Other habitats in its models (24)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in North Carolina. Those recorded in North Carolina first, the rest by region.

Elsewhere in the South (8)

Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
Southeastern Great Plains Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Southern Blackland Tallgrass Prairie Summer.
Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Summer.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Nepheline Syenite Glade Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Northern Calcareous Prairie Summer.
West Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Calcareous Prairie Summer.

Midwest (1)

Central Tallgrass Prairie Summer.

Land cover and other classes (15)

Eastern Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.
Eastern Great Plains Wet Meadow, Prairie, and Marsh Summer.
Harvested Forest - Grass/Forb Regeneration Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Annual Grassland Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Forbland Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland Summer.
Introduced Upland Vegetation - Perennial Grassland and Forbland Summer.
Recently Burned Summer.
Recently Burned Forest Summer.
Recently Burned Grassland Summer.
Recently Logged Areas Summer.
South Texas Dune and Coastal Grassland Summer.
South Texas Sand Sheet Grassland Summer.
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Summer.
Western Great Plains Floodplain Systems Summer.

All habitats

Seasons in North Carolina

Migratory: does not nest here, in 23 of 100 counties.
Summer: nests here, in 79 of 100 counties.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.