Birds of Zippel Bay State Park Sp Su Fa Wi Birds of Zippel Bay State Park Sp Su Fa Wi Birds of Zippel Bay State Park Sp Su Fa Wi O U ❏ Willow Flycatcher O O ❏ American Robin C C C O ❏ Le Conte’s Sparrow U ZIPPEL BAY C ❏ Least Flycatcher C C C ❏ Gray Catbird C C C ❏ Fox Sparrow C C C ❏ Eastern Phoebe C C C ❏ Brown Thrasher U U U ❏ Song Sparrow C C STATE PARK ❏ Great Crested Flycatcher C C C ❏ European Starling U U U U ❏ Lincoln’s Sparrow C C C ❏ Eastern Kingbird C C C ❏ American Pipit U U ❏ Swamp Sparrow C C C ✓ ❏ O O ❏ ❏ C Loggerhead Shrike O O Bohemian Waxwing O O O White-throated Sparrow U ❏ O O ❏ ❏ U Northern Shrike Cedar Waxwing C C CU O Harris’s Sparrow U ❏ U U ❏ U ❏ U Checklist Yellow-throated Vireo U Golden-winged Warbler U White-crowned Sparrow O C U C ❏ U U ❏ ❏ C Blue-headed Vireo U Tennessee Warbler C U Dark-eyed Junco C O ❏ U U ❏ ❏ Lapland Longspur C BIRD Warbling Vireo U Orange-crowned Warbler U C C C ❏ U U ❏ C ❏ C Philadelphia Vireo Nashville Warbler C U Snow Bunting O ❏ C C ❏ ❏ C Red-eyed Vireo C Northern Parula U C Rose-breasted Grosbeak C C C O O ❏ ❏ C U ❏ Gray Jay O O Yellow Warbler C U Indigo Bunting C C C U C U ❏ Blue Jay C C ❏ Chestnut-sided Warbler U U ❏ Bobolink C U U U C C ❏ Black-billed Magpie U U ❏ Magnolia Warbler U U ❏ Red-winged Blackbird C C C O C C ❏ American Crow C O ❏ Cape May Warbler U O ❏ Eastern Meadowlark C U U C C ❏ Common Raven U U ❏ Black-throated Blue Warbler O C ❏ Western Meadowlark C U C C C ❏ Horned Lark U C O ❏ Yellow-rumped Warbler C ❏ Yellow-headed Blackbird C U C C C U C ❏ Purple Martin C ❏ Black-throated Green Warbler U U ❏ Rusty Blackbird C C U C U ❏ Tree Swallow C ❏ Blackburnian Warbler U U ❏ Brewer’s Blackbird C U U U C C ❏ Northern Rough-winged Swallow U ❏ Pine Warbler U C ❏ Common Grackle C U U U C C ❏ Bank Swallow U ❏ Palm Warbler C U ❏ Brown-headed Cowbird C C U C U ❏ Cliff Swallow C ❏ Bay-breasted Warbler U U ❏ Baltimore Oriole C C C O U ❏ Barn Swallow C ❏ Blackpoll Warbler U C ❏ Pine Grosbeak O C C C C O ❏ Black-capped Chickadee C C ❏ Black-and-white Warbler C C ❏ Purple Finch C U O O C U ❏ ❏ C C ❏ U U Boreal Chickadee O American Redstart C House Finch U U U C O O Date:______❏ Red-breasted Nuthatch U O ❏ Ovenbird U ❏ Red Crossbill O C C U O O ❏ White-breasted Nuthatch C C ❏ Northern Waterthrush U ❏ White-winged Crossbill O Weather:______U U U O O ❏ ❏ U U ❏ O ______Brown Creeper U Connecticut Warbler U Common Redpoll C C U U U ❏ House Wren C ❏ Mourning Warbler C ❏ Pine Siskin U Observers:______O O C C U C C ❏ Winter Wren O ❏ Common Yellowthroat ❏ American Goldfinch C U ______U U U ❏ ❏ U U ❏ U U Sedge Wren U Wilson’s Warbler U Evening Grosbeak U U U U Notes:______❏ Marsh Wren U ❏ Warbler ❏ House Sparrow C C C C C C ______❏ Golden-crowned Kinglet U ❏ Scarlet Tanager U U U C C ______❏ ❏ Eastern Towhee U U U Ruby-crowned Kinglet C C ❏ ❏ American Tree Sparrow C C O Eastern Bluebird U C U ❏ ❏ C C C Veery U U U Chipping Sparrow ❏ ❏ C C Gray-cheeked Thrush U U Clay-colored Sparrow C Department of Natural Resources ❏ ❏ U U Swainson’s Thrush C C Vesper Sparrow U Division of Parks & Recreation ❏ ❏ C C Hermit Thrush C Savannah Sparrow C December 2002 DNR Web Site: www.dnr.state.mn.us U U U U C C O O O Wi Wi U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U C C C C C C C C C C C C C C O O O O O O Fa Fa U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U C C C C C C C C C C C C O O O O O Su U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U U C C C C C C C C C C C C C C O O O O O O Sp ve ectoral Sandpiper ectoral ellow-bellied Sapsucker Sapsucker ellow-bellied Baird’s Sandpiper Baird’s P Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Common Snipe Gull Franklin’s Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster’s Tern Tern Black Do Rock Mourning Dove Cuckoo Black-billed HornedGreat Owl Owl Snowy Northern Hawk Owl Owl Barred Owl Gray Great Owl Long-eared Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk Hummingbird Ruby-throated Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Woodpecker Downy Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Flycatcher Olive-sided Eastern Wood-Pewee American Woodcock American Woodcock Phalarope Wilson’s Whip-poor-will Alder Flycatcher Y Birds of Zippel Bay State Park of Zippel Bay State Park Birds

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seasons m (Winter) = December, January, February January, (Winter) = December, (Fall) = August, September, October, November November October, September, August, = (Fall) (Summer) = June, July

= Common — present, relatively easy to find easy to find relatively = Common — present, to find be difficult may = Uncommon — observed, in not be present or may = Occasional — may or may at least once, = Rare — has occurred ocated on the southern shore of Lake of of Lake ocated on the southern shore ell as Minnesota Ornithologist’s Union records and data contained Union records ell as Minnesota Ornithologist’s

or a particular park, contact the Parks Division Resource Manage­ Division Resource contact the Parks or a particular park, Birding Opportunities at Zippel Bay State Park L a wide variety this park contains the Woods, is one of Zippel Bay habitats. of prime bird where parks in Minnesota the few can be seen in significant shorebirds species of shorebirds Twenty-five numbers. the In addition to been recorded. have pelicans ducks, piping plover, endangered Woodlands here. found are and cormorants including 26 birds many for habitat provide This park is warblers. species of neotropical parks in the birding one of the top certainly system. Park State Minnesota (Spring) = March, Sp (Spring) = March, Su Fa Wi The U O year any R Abundance codes C that of of species follows The names and taxonomic arrangement by prepared 2001), of Minnesota (January, of the Birds the Checklist the Minnesota Ornithological Committee. Records been contains the names of all birds that have This checklist constructed by It was reliable observers. documented in the park by & Recreation and the MN DNR-Division of Parks Janssen Robert B. as and other observers, park staff Janssen, using observations of Mr. w used sources are interested in the specific If you reports. in research f mail by telephone at 651-297-1158 or Coordinator ment Program MN 55155-4039. Paul, 39 St. Box Road, 500 Lafayette at MNDNR-Parks, of the Minnesota Department programs from “Equal opportunity to participate in and benefit national religion, creed, color, of race, is available to all individuals regardless Resources Natural sexual orientation, age, to public assistance, status with regard status, marital sex, origin, should be sent inquires Discrimination or disability. membership or activity in a local commission, MN 55155-4031; Paul, St. Road, 500 Lafayette Resources, to the Minnesota Department of Natural Department of the Interior, or the Equal Opportunity Office, calling 651-297-1158. to individuals with disabilities by formats in alternative This document is available Resources. Department of Natural State of Minnesota, Copyright 2002,