Minnesota Bird List

Birding times:
TOTALSLife 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
MN 186 87 90 126 8 106 115
Added to MN 87 23 43 1 10 22

SPECIES 199619971998199920002001
1 common loon X X X X X
2 western grebe X
3 red-necked grebe X X X
4 horned grebe X X
5 pied-billed grebe X X
6 white pelican X X X
7 double-crested cormorant X X X
8 tundra swan X
9 canada goose X X X X X
10 snow goose X
11 brant X
12 mallard X X X X X
13 american black duck X
14 northern pintail X
15 gadwall X X
16 northern shoveler X X
17 blue-winged teal X X X
18 green-winged teal X X
19 american wigeon X
20 wood duck X X X X
21 redhead X
22 ring-necked duck X X
23 lesser scaup X X
24 common goldeneye X
25 bufflehead X
26 hooded merganser X X
27 common merganser X X
28 red-breasted merganser X
29 ruddy duck X
30 turkey vulture X X X X
31 sharp-shinned hawk X X
32 northern harrier X X X X
33 red-tailed hawk X X X
34 swainson's hawk X
35 broad-winged hawk X X X
36 bald eagle X X X X X X
37 osprey X X X
38 peregrine falcon ? X
39 american kestrel X X X X X
40 ruffed grouse X X X
41 ring-necked pheasant X
42 great egret X X X
43 great blue heron X X X X X
44 green heron X X X
45 black-crowned nt. heron X
46 american bittern X
47 sandhill crane X X
48 sora X
49 american coot X X
50 american avocet X
51 semipalmated plover X
52 killdeer X X X X X
53 greater yellowlegs X
54 lesser yellowlegs X
55 solitary sandpiper X
56 spotted sandpiper X X X
57 short-billed dowitcher X
58 wilson's phalarope X
59 american woodcock X
60 common snipe X X X
61 pectoral sandpiper X
62 sanderling X
63 white-rumped sandpiper X
64 least sandpiper X
65 semipalmated sandpiper X
66 western sandpiper X
67 herring gull X X X X X
68 ring-billed gull X X X
69 franklin's gull X X X
70 common tern X X X
71 forster's tern X X
72 caspian tern X
73 black tern X X X X X
74 rock dove (pigeon) X X X X X
75 mourning dove X X X X X
76 black-billed cuckoo X
77 eastern screech owl (H) (H)
78 barred owl (H)
79 common nighthawk X
80 chimney swift X X X
81 ruby-throated hummingbirdX X X X X
82 belted kingfisher X X X X X
83 common flicker X X X X X
84 pileated woodpecker X X X
85 red-bellied woodpecker X
86 red-headed woodpecker X
87 yellow-bellied sapsucker X X X X X
88 hairy woodpecker X X X X X
89 downy woodpecker X X X
90 eastern kingbird X X X X X
91 great crested flycatcher X X (H) X
92 eastern phoebe X X X
93 yellow-bellied flycatcher X
94 willow flycatcher X X
95 alder flycatcher X X
96 least flycatcher X X X X
97 eastern wood-pewee X X (H) X
98 barn swallow X X X X X
99 cliff swallow X X X
100 tree swallow X X X X X
101 bank swallow X X X
102 rough-winged swallow X X
103 purple martin X X X
104 blue jay X X X X X
105 gray jay X ? X
106 black-billed magpie X X X
107 common raven X X X X X
108 american crow X X X X X
109 black-capped chickadee X X X X X
110 white-breasted nuthatch X X X X X
111 red-breasted nuthatch X X X X
112 brown creeper X X
113 house wren X X
114 winter wren ? (H) (H)
115 marsh wren X (H)
116 sedge wren X X
117 gray catbird X X X X X
118 brown thrasher X X
119 american robin X X X X X
120 wood thrush X X (H) (H)
121 hermit thrush X X X X
122 swainson's thrush X X (H)
123 gray-cheeked thrush ?
124 veery X X X X
125 eastern bluebird X X X X
126 golden-crowned kinglet X
127 ruby-crowned kinglet X X X X
128 bohemian waxwing X
129 cedar waxwing X X X X X
130 loggerhead shrike X
131 european starling X X X X X
132 blue-headed vireo X X X
133 red-eyed vireo X X X X X
134 philadelphia vireo (H)
135 warbling vireo X X X
136 black-and-white warbler X X X X X
137 golden-winged warbler X X
138 tennessee warbler X X X X X
139 nashville warbler X X X X
140 northern parula X (H)
141 yellow warbler X X X X
142 magnolia warbler X X X X
143 yellow-rumped warbler X X X X
144 black-thr. green warbler X X (H) X
145 blackburnian warbler X X
146 chestnut-sided warbler X X X
147 blackpoll warbler X (H)
148 pine warbler X X X X
149 prairie warbler X
150 palm warbler X X X X
151 ovenbird X X X X X
152 northern waterthrush X
153 common yellowthroat X X X X
154 mourning warbler X X
155 connecticut warbler (H) X
156 wilson's warbler X
157 canada warbler X X (H)
158 american redstart X X X X X
159 house sparrow X X X X X X
160 bobolink X X
161 eastern meadowlark X X
162 yellow-headed blackbird X X X
163 red-winged blackbird X X X X X
164 brewer's blackbird X
165 common grackle X X X X X
166 brown-headed cowbird X X X X
167 baltimore oriole X X X X
168 northern cardinal X X X X
169 rose-breasted grosbeak X X X X X
170 evening grosbeak X X
171 indigo bunting X
172 purple finch X X X X
173 house finch X X X X
174 american goldfinch X X X X X
175 dickcissel X
176 savannah sparrow X X
177 lark sparrow X
178 dark-eyed junco X X X
179 chipping sparrow X X X X X
180 clay-colored sparrow X X X X
181 harris' sparrow X
182 white-crowned sparrow X
183 white-throated sparrow X X X X X
184 fox sparrow X X
185 swamp sparrow X X X
186 song sparrow X X X X X