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