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Checklist of Minnesota Birds

by Bob Ekblad

Checklist of Minnesota Birds - Part 1 - (311 Regular Species)
 
  Species   Species    Species
DUCKS, GEESE & SWANS NEW WORLD VULTURES GULLS & TERNS
  Greater White-fronted Goose   Turkey Vulture   Franklin's Gull
  Snow Goose HAWKS & EAGLES   Little Gull *
  Ross's Goose *   Osprey   Bonaparte's Gull
  Canada Goose   Bald Eagle   Ring-billed Gull
  Mute Swan *   Northern Harrier   Herring Gull
  Trumpeter Swan   Sharp-shinned Hawk   Thayer's Gull
  Tundra Swan   Cooper's Hawk   Iceland Gull *
  Wood Duck   Northern Goshawk   Lesser Black-backed Gull *
  Gadwall   Red-shouldered Hawk   Glaucous Gull
  American Wigeon   Broad-winged Hawk   Great Black-backed Gull *
  American Black Duck   Swainson's Hawk   Caspian Tern
  Mallard   Red-tailed Hawk   Black Tern
  Blue-winged Teal   Ferruginous Hawk *   Common Tern
  Northern Shoveler   Rough-legged Hawk   Forster's Tern
  Northern Pintail   Golden Eagle JAEGERS
  Green-winged Teal FALCONS   Parasitic Jaeger *
  Canvasback   American Kestrel PIGEONS & DOVES
  Redhead   Merlin   Rock Pigeon
  Ring-necked Duck   Peregrine Falcon   Mourning Dove
  Greater Scaup   Prairie Falcon * CUCKOOS
  Lesser Scaup RAILS, GALLINULES & COOTS   Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  Harlequin Duck *   Yellow Rail   Black-billed Cuckoo
  Surf Scoter   Virginia Rail OWLS
  White-winged Scoter   Sora   Eastern Screech-Owl
  Black Scoter   Common Moorhen *   Great Horned Owl
  Long-tailed Duck   American Coot   Snowy Owl
  Bufflehead CRANES   Northern Hawk Owl
  Common Goldeneye   Sandhill Crane   Barred Owl
  Hooded Merganser PLOVERS   Great Gray Owl
  Common Merganser   Black-bellied Plover   Long-eared Owl
  Red-breasted Merganser   American Golden-Plover   Short-eared Owl
  Ruddy Duck   Semipalmated Plover   Boreal Owl *
PARTRIDGE,GROUSE,TURKEY   Piping Plover *   Northern Saw-whet Owl
  Gray Partridge   Killdeer GOATSUCKERS
  Ring-necked Pheasant AVOCETS   Common Nighthawk
  Ruffed Grouse   American Avocet   Whip-poor-will
  Spruce Grouse SANDPIPERS & ALLIES SWIFTS
  Sharp-tailed Grouse   Spotted Sandpiper   Chimney Swift
  Greater Prairie-Chicken   Solitary Sandpiper HUMMINGBIRD
  Wild Turkey   Greater Yellowlegs   Ruby-throated Hummingbird
LOONS    Willet KINGFISHERS
  Red-throated Loon*   Lesser Yellowlegs   Belted Kingfisher
  Pacific Loon *   Upland Sandpiper WOODPECKERS
  Common Loon   Whimbrel *   Red-headed Woodpecker
GREBES   Hudsonian Godwit   Red-bellied Woodpecker
  Pied-billed Grebe   Marbled Godwit   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  Horned Grebe   Ruddy Turnstone   Downy Woodpecker
  Red-necked Grebe   Red Knot *   Hairy Woodpecker
  Eared Grebe   Sanderling   American Three-toed Woodpecker *
  Western Grebe   Semipalmated Sandpiper   Black-backed Woodpecker
  Clark's Grebe *   Least Sandpiper   Northern Flicker
PELICANS   White-rumped Sandpiper   Pileated Woodpecker
  American White Pelican   Baird's Sandpiper

TYRANT FLYCATCHERS

CORMORANTS   Pectoral Sandpiper   Olive-sided Flycatcher
  Double-crested Cormorant   Dunlin   Eastern Wood-Pewee
HERONS, BITTERNS & ALLIES   Stilt Sandpiper   Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
  American Bittern   Buff-breasted Sandpiper   Acadian Flycatcher *
  Least Bittern   Short-billed Dowitcher   Alder Flycatcher
  Great Blue Heron   Long-billed Dowitcher   Willow Flycatcher
  Great Egret   Wilson's Snipe   Least Flycatcher
  Snowy Egret   American Woodcock   Eastern Phoebe
  Little Blue Heron *   Wilson's Phalarope   Great Crested Flycatcher
  Cattle Egret   Red-necked Phalarope   Western Kingbird
  Green Heron       Eastern Kingbird
  Black-crowned Night-Heron    

SHRIKES

  Yellow-crowned Night-Heron *       Loggerhead Shrike
          Northern Shrike

* Please report/document sightings of these more rare and hard to find species



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