MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY BIRD CHECKLIST

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Waterbirds

Common Goldeneye

Upland Sandpiper

Common Loon

Hooded Merganser

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Pied-billed Grebe

Common Merganser

Least Sandpiper

Horned Grebe

Red-breasted Merganser

White-rumped Sandpiper

Eared Grebe

Ruddy Duck

Baird’s Sandpiper

Red-necked Grebe

 

Pectoral Sandpiper

Western Grebe

Birds of Prey

Stilt Sandpiper

 

Bald Eagle

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

American White Pelican

Golden Eagle

Dunlin

Double-crested Cormorant

Osprey

Sanderling

 

Northern Harrier

Short-billed Dowitcher

Wading Birds

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Long-billed Dowitcher

Great Blue Heron

Cooper’s Hawk

Common Snipe

Great Egret

Red-shouldered Hawk

American Woodcock

Snowy Egret

Broad-winged Hawk

Wilson’s Phalarope

Cattle Egret

Swainson’s Hawk

Red-necked Phalarope

Green Heron

Red-tailed Hawk

 

Black-crowned Night Heron

Rough-legged Hawk

Gulls & Terns

American Bittern

American Kestrel

Ring-billed Gull

Least Bittern

Merlin

Franklin’s Gull

 

Peregrine Falcon

Herring Gull

Turkey Vulture

 

Caspian Tern

 

Gallinaceous Birds

Common Tern

Waterfowl

Sharp-tailed Grouse

Forster’s Tern

White-fronted Goose

Wild Turkey

Black Tern

Snow Goose

 

 

Ross' Goose

Rallidae

Mourning Dove

Canada Goose

Virginia Rail

 

Trumpeter Swan

Sora

Black-billed Cuckoo

Tundra Swan

American Coot

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Wood Duck

 

 

Gadwall

Sandhill Crane

Owls

American Wigeon

 

Eastern Screech Owl

American Black Duck

Shorebirds

Great Horned Owl

Mallard

Black-bellied Plover

Barred Owl

Blue-winged Teal

American Golden Plover

Short-eared Owl

Northern Shoveler

Semipalmated Plover

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Northern Pintail

Killdeer

 

Green-winged Teal

Marbled Godwit

Common Nighthawk

Canvasback

Hudsonian Godwit

Whip-poor-will

Redhead

Willet

Chimney Swift

Ring-necked Duck

Greater Yellowlegs

 

Greater Scaup

Lesser Yellowlegs

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Lesser Scaup

Solitary Sandpiper

 

Bufflehead

Spotted Sandpiper

 


Bird List Continued

 

Belted Kingfisher

Bank Swallow

Cape May Warbler

 

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Woodpeckers

Purple Martin

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Pileated Woodpecker

 

Black-throated Green Warbler

Red-headed Woodpecker

Black-capped Chickadee

Blackburnian Warbler

Downy Woodpecker

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Pine Warbler

Hairy Woodpecker

White-breasted Nuthatch

Palm Warbler

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Brown Creeper

Bay-breasted Warbler

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

 

Blackpoll Warbler

Northern Flicker

House Wren

Cerulean Warbler

 

Winter Wren

Black-and-White Warbler

Flycatchers

Sedge Wren

American Redstart

Great Crested Flycatcher

Marsh Wren

Prothonotary Warbler

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ovenbird

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Northern Waterthrush

Alder Flycatcher

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Connecticut Warbler

Willow Flycatcher

 

Mourning Warbler

Least Flycatcher

Thrushes

Common Yellowthroat

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Eastern Bluebird

Wilson's Warbler

Eastern Phoebe

Townsend’s Solitaire

Canada Warbler

Western Kingbird

Veery

Yellow-breasted Chat

Eastern Kingbird

Gray-cheeked Thrush

 

 

Swainson’s Thrush

Scarlet Tanager

Loggerhead Shrike

Hermit Thrush

Spotted Towhee

Northern Shrike

Wood Thrush

Eastern Towhee

 

American Robin

 

Vireos

Gray Catbird

Sparrows

Red-eyed Vireo

Northern Mockingbird

American Tree Sparrow

Philadelphia Vireo

Brown Thrasher

Chipping Sparrow

Warbling Vireo

American Pipit

Clay-colored Sparrow

Blue-headed Vireo

Cedar Waxwing

Field Sparrow

Yellow-throated Vireo

 

Vesper Sparrow

 

Warblers

Lark Sparrow

Blue Jay

Blue-winged Warbler

Savannah Sparrow

American Crow

Golden-winged Warbler

Grasshopper Sparrow

 

Tennessee Warbler

Henslow’s Sparrow

Horned Lark

Orange-crowned Warbler

Le Conte's Sparrow

 

Nashville Warbler

Fox Sparrow

Swallows

Northern Parula

Song Sparrow

Tree Swallow

Yellow Warbler

Lincoln’s Sparrow

Cliff Swallow

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Swamp Sparrow

Barn Swallow

Magnolia Warbler

White-throated Sparrow

 


Bird List-- Page 3

 

Harris’ Sparrow

Rarely Sighted Species

 

White-crowned Sparrow

Clark’s Grebe

 

Dark-eyed Junco

Little Blue Heron

 

Lapland Longspur

White-faced Ibis

 

Smith's Longspur

Ross’ Goose

 

Snow Bunting

Long-tailed Duck

 

 

White-winged Scoter

 

Finches

Surf Scoter

 

Purple Finch

Northern Goshawk

 

House Finch

Prairie Falcon

 

Common Redpoll

Ruffed Grouse

 

Pine Siskin

Greater Prairie Chicken

 

American Goldfinch

American Avocet

 

Evening Grosbeak

Common Moorhen

 

Indigo Bunting

Snowy Owl

 

Blue Grosbeak

Long-eared Owl

 

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Acadian Flycatcher

 

Northern Cardinal

Mountain Bluebird

 

 

Kentucky Warbler

 

Blackbirds

Summer Tanager

 

Red-winged Blackbird

 

 

 

 

 

Yellow-headed Blackbird

 

 

Rusty Blackbird

 

 

Brewer's Blackbird

 

 

Common Grackle

 

 

Brown-headed Cowbird

 

 

 

 

 

Dickcissel

 

 

Bobolink

 

 

Eastern Meadowlark

 

 

Western Meadowlark

 

 

Orchard Oriole

 

 

Baltimore Oriole

 

 

 

 

 

Introduced Species

 

 

House Sparrow

 

 

European Starling

 

 

Rock Dove

 

 

Gray Partridge

 

 

Ring-necked Pheasant

 

 

 

 

 

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