How to Use dickcissel in a Sentence
dickcissel
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At the Westboro Wildlife Area, there was a snowy egret and a dickcissel.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2021-08-28
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Birds known as the dickcissel will perch on plant stalks and chirp — dick dick cissel — over and over again until most humans have had enough.
—Rick Montgomery, kansascity.com, 2017-05-12
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Their bird fervor often yields entertaining readings, including what must be the sentence of the decade: There’s a dickcissel down by the sewage pond!
—National Geographic, 2020-04-21
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