The Birds of Minnesota — August 2012 ©The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union Bold Gateway regular—Red Gateway occasional

Great Blue Heron Long-billed Dowitcher REGULAR Great Egret Wilson’s Snipe Greater White-fronted Goose Snowy Egret American Woodcock Snow Goose Little Blue Heron Wilson’s Phalarope Ross’s Goose Cattle Egret Red-necked Phalarope Cackling Goose Green Heron Bonaparte’s Gull Canada Goose Black-crowned Night-Heron Little Gull Mute Swan Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Franklin’s Gull Trumpeter Swan White-faced Ibis Ring-billed Gull Tundra Swan Turkey Vulture Herring Gull Wood Duck Osprey Thayer’s Gull Gadwall Bald Eagle Iceland Gull American Wigeon Northern Harrier Lesser Black-backed Gull American Black Duck Sharp-shinned Hawk Glaucous Gull Mallard Cooper’s Hawk Great Black-backed Gull Blue-winged Teal Northern Goshawk Caspian Tern Cinnamon Teal Red-shouldered Hawk Black Tern Northern Shoveler Broad-winged Hawk Common Tern Northern Pintail Swainson’s Hawk Forster’s Tern Green-winged Teal Red-tailed Hawk Parasitic Jaeger Canvasback Rough-legged Hawk Rock Pigeon Redhead Golden Eagle Eurasian Collared-Dove Ring-necked Duck Yellow Rail Mourning Dove Greater Scaup Virginia Rail Yellow-billed Cuckoo Lesser Scaup Sora Black-billed Cuckoo Harlequin Duck Common Gallinule Eastern Screech-Owl Surf Scoter American Coot Great Horned Owl White-winged Scoter Sandhill Crane Snowy Owl Black Scoter Black-bellied Plover Northern Hawk Owl Long-tailed Duck American Golden-Plover Barred Owl Bufflehead Semipalmated Plover Great Gray Owl Common Goldeneye Piping Plover Long-eared Owl Hooded Merganser Killdeer Short-eared Owl Common Merganser American Avocet Boreal Owl Red-breasted Merganser Spotted Sandpiper Northern Saw-whet Owl Ruddy Duck Solitary Sandpiper Common Nighthawk Gray Partridge Greater Yellowlegs Eastern Whip-poor-will Ring-necked Pheasant Willet Chimney Swift Ruffed Grouse Lesser Yellowlegs Ruby-throated Spruce Grouse Upland Sandpiper Hummingbird Sharp-tailed Grouse Whimbrel Belted Kingfisher Greater Prairie-Chicken Hudsonian Godwit Red-headed Woodpecker Wild Turkey Marbled Godwit Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-throated Loon Ruddy Turnstone Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Pacific Loon Red Knot Downy Woodpecker Common Loon Sanderling Hairy Woodpecker Pied-billed Grebe Semipalmated Sandpiper American Three-toed Horned Grebe Least Sandpiper Woodpecker Red-necked Grebe White-rumped Sandpiper Black-backed Woodpecker Eared Grebe Baird’s Sandpiper Northern Flicker Western Grebe Pectoral Sandpiper Pileated Woodpecker Clark’s Grebe ! American Kestrel Double-crested Cormorant ! Merlin American White Pelican Dunlin Peregrine Falcon American Bittern Stilt Sandpiper Prairie Falcon ! Buff-breasted Sandpiper Olive-sided Flycatcher Least Bittern Short-billed Dowitcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher European Starling Swamp Sparrow Acadian Flycatcher American Pipit White-throated Sparrow Alder Flycatcher Bohemian Waxwing Harris’s Sparrow Willow Flycatcher Cedar Waxwing White-crowned Sparrow Least Flycatcher Lapland Longspur Dark-eyed Junco Eastern Phoebe Chestnut-collared Longspur Summer Tanager Great Crested Flycatcher Smith’s Longspur Scarlet Tanager Western Kingbird Snow Bunting Western Tanager Eastern Kingbird Ovenbird Northern Cardinal Loggerhead Shrike Louisiana Waterthrush Rose-breasted Grosbeak Northern Shrike Northern Waterthrush Blue Grosbeak White-eyed Vireo Golden-winged Warbler Indigo Bunting Bell’s Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Dickcissel Yellow-throated Vireo Black-and-white Warbler Bobolink Blue-headed Vireo Prothonotary Warbler Red-winged Blackbird Warbling Vireo Tennessee Warbler Eastern Meadowlark Philadelphia Vireo Orange-crowned Warbler Western Meadowlark Red-eyed Vireo Nashville Warbler Yellow-headed Blackbird Gray Jay Connecticut Warbler Rusty Blackbird Blue Jay Mourning Warbler Brewer’s Blackbird Black-billed Magpie Kentucky Warbler Common Grackle American Crow Common Yellowthroat Great-tailed Grackle Common Raven Hooded Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird Horned Lark American Redstart Orchard Oriole Purple Martin Cape May Warbler Baltimore Oriole Tree Swallow Cerulean Warbler Pine Grosbeak Northern Rough-winged Northern Parula Purple Finch Swallow Magnolia Warbler House Finch Bank Swallow Bay-breasted Warbler Red Crossbill Cliff Swallow Blackburnian Warbler White-winged Crossbill Barn Swallow Yellow Warbler Common Redpoll Black-capped Chickadee Chestnut-sided Warbler Hoary Redpoll Boreal Chickadee Blackpoll Warbler Pine Siskin Tufted Titmouse Black-throated Blue Warbler American Golfinch Red-breasted Nuthatch Palm Warbler Evening Grosbeak White-breasted Nuthatch Pine Warbler House Sparrow Brown Creeper Yellow-rumped Warbler ! House Wren Black-throated Green ! Winter Wren Warbler ! Sedge Wren Canada Warbler ! Marsh Wren Wilson’s Warbler ! Carolina Wren Yellow-breasted Chat ! Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Spotted Towhee ! Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Towhee ! Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Tree Sparrow ! Eastern Bluebird Chipping Sparrow CASUAL Mountain Bluebird Clay-colored Sparrow Black-bellied Whistling- Townsend’s Solitaire Field Sparrow Duck Veery Vesper Sparrow Brant Gray-cheeked Thrush Lark Sparrow Eurasian Wigeon Swainson’s Thrush Savannah Sparrow King Eider Hermit Thrush Grasshopper Sparrow Barrow’s Goldeneye Wood Thrush Henslow’s Sparrow Neotropic Cormorant American Robin Le Conte’s Sparrow Tricolored Heron Varied Thrush Nelson’s Sparrow Black Vulture Gray Catbird Fox Sparrow Swallow-tailed Kite Northern Mockingbird Song Sparrow Mississippi Kite Brown Thrasher Lincoln’s Sparrow Ferruginous Hawk Snowy Plover Glaucous-winged Gull Eskimo Curlew Black-necked Stilt Sandwich Tern ! Long-billed Curlew Elegant Tern EXTINCT Western Sandpiper Long-tailed Jaeger Passenger Pigeon Ruff Dovekie Red Phalarope Black Guillemot Black-legged Kittiwake Long-billed Murrelet Sabine’s Gull Ancient Murrelet Black-headed Gull Band-tailed Pigeon California Gull Inca Dove Least Tern Common Ground-Dove Arctic Tern Groove-billed Ani Pomarine Jaeger Barn Owl White-winged Dove Common Poorwill Burrowing Owl Chuck-will’s-widow Gyrfalcon White-throated Swift Say’s Phoebe Green Violetear Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Magni"cent Hummingbird Rock Wren Anna’s Hummingbird Sage Thrasher Costa’s Hummingbird Sprague’s Pipit Rufous Hummingbird Worm-eating Warbler Calliope Hummingbird Yellow-throated Warbler Lewis’s Woodpecker Prairie Warbler Acorn Woodpecker Black-throated Sparrow Williamson’s Sapsucker Lark Bunting Crested Caracara Black-headed Grosbeak Western Wood-Pewee Lazuli Bunting Vermilion Flycatcher Painted Bunting Ash-throated Flycatcher Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Tropical/Couch’s Kingbird Eurasian Tree Sparrow Cassin’s Kingbird ! Fork-tailed Flycatcher ACCIDENTAL Clark’s Nutcracker Fulvous Whistling-Duck Violet-green Swallow Garganey Pygmy Nuthatch Common Eider Bewick’s Wren Smew American Dipper Willow Ptarmigan Northern Wheatear Rock Ptarmigan Fieldfare Yellow-billed Loon Curve-billed Thrasher Wood Stork McCown’s Longspur Magnificent Frigatebird MacGillivray’s Warbler Brown Pelican Kirtland’s Warbler White Ibis Black-throated Gray Warbler Glossy Ibis Townsend’s Warbler White-tailed Kite Hermit Warbler Black Rail Painted Redstart King Rail Green-tailed Towhee Purple Gallinule Brewer’s Sparrow Whooping Crane Baird’s Sparrow Wilson’s Plover Golden-crowned Sparrow Purple Sandpiper Bullock’s Oriole Curlew Sandpiper Scott’s Oriole Ivory Gull Brambling Ross’s Gull Cassin’s Finch Laughing Gull ! Mew Gull EXTIRPATED Slaty-backed Gull Northern Bobwhite