Checklist of the Birds of Minnesota
The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union Checklist of the Birds of Minnesota
REGULAR ACCIDENTAL Greater White-fronted Goose Least Sandpiper Northern Flicker Evening Grosbeak Fulvous Whistling-Duck Snow Goose White-rumped Sandpiper Pileated Woodpecker Lapland Longspur Mottled Duck Ross’s Goose Buff-breasted Sandpiper American Kestrel Chestnut-collared Longspur Garganey Cackling Goose Pectoral Sandpiper Merlin Smith’s Longspur Common Eider Canada Goose Semipalmated Sandpiper Peregrine Falcon Snow Bunting Smew Mute Swan Short-billed Dowitcher Prairie Falcon Ovenbird Willow Ptarmigan Trumpeter Swan Long-billed Dowitcher Olive-sided Flycatcher Louisiana Waterthrush Rock Ptarmigan Tundra Swan Wilson’s Snipe Eastern Wood-Pewee Northern Waterthrush Band-tailed Pigeon Wood Duck American Woodcock Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Golden-winged Warbler Inca Dove Gadwall Spotted Sandpiper Acadian Flycatcher Blue-winged Warbler Common Ground-Dove American Wigeon Solitary Sandpiper Alder Flycatcher Black-and-white Warbler Groove-billed Ani American Black Duck Greater Yellowlegs Willow Flycatcher Prothonotary Warbler Common Poorwill Mallard Willet Least Flycatcher Tennessee Warbler Chuck-will’s-widow Blue-winged Teal Lesser Yellowlegs Eastern Phoebe Orange-crowned Warbler White-throated Swift Cinnamon Teal Wilson’s Phalarope Say’s Phoebe Nashville Warbler Mexican Violetear Northern Shoveler Red-necked Phalarope Great Crested Flycatcher Connecticut Warbler Magnificent Hummingbird Northern Pintail Parasitic Jaeger Western Kingbird Mourning Warbler Anna’s Hummingbird Green-winged Teal Sabine’s Gull Eastern Kingbird Kentucky Warbler Costa’s Hummingbird Canvasback Bonaparte’s Gull Loggerhead Shrike Common Yellowthroat Rufous Hummingbird Redhead Little Gull Northern Shrike Hooded Warbler Calliope Hummingbird Ring-necked Duck Franklin’s Gull Bell’s Vireo American Redstart Black Rail Greater Scaup Ring-billed Gull Yellow-throated Vireo Cape May Warbler King Rail Lesser Scaup Herring Gull Blue-headed Vireo Cerulean Warbler Purple Gallinule Harlequin Duck Thayer’s Gull Philadelphia Vireo Northern Parula Whooping Crane Surf Scoter Iceland Gull Warbling Vireo Magnolia Warbler Wilson’s Plover White-winged Scoter Lesser Black-backed Gull Red-eyed Vireo Bay-breasted Warbler Long-billed Curlew Black Scoter Glaucous Gull Gray Jay Blackburnian Warbler Curlew Sandpiper Long-tailed Duck Great Black-backed Gull Blue Jay Yellow Warbler Long-tailed Jaeger Bufflehead Caspian Tern Black-billed Magpie Chestnut-sided Warbler Dovekie Common Goldeneye Black Tern American Crow Blackpoll Warbler Black Guillemot Barrow’s Goldeneye Common Tern Common Raven Black-throated Blue Warbler Long-billed Murrelet Hooded Merganser Forster’s Tern Horned Lark Palm Warbler Ancient Murrelet Common Merganser Red-throated Loon Purple Martin Pine Warbler Ivory Gull Red-breasted Merganser Pacific Loon Tree Swallow Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-headed Gull Ruddy Duck Common Loon Northern Rough-winged Swallow Black-throated Green Warbler Ross’s Gull Gray Partridge Double-crested Cormorant Bank Swallow Canada Warbler Mew Gull Ring-necked Pheasant American White Pelican Cliff Swallow Wilson’s Warbler Glaucous-winged Gull Ruffed Grouse American Bittern Barn Swallow Yellow-breasted Chat Least Tern Spruce Grouse Least Bittern Black-capped Chickadee Spotted Towhee Gull-billed Tern Sharp-tailed Grouse Great Blue Heron Boreal Chickadee Eastern Towhee Sandwich Tern Greater Prairie-Chicken Great Egret Tufted Titmouse American Tree Sparrow Elegant Tern Wild Turkey Snowy Egret Red-breasted Nuthatch Chipping Sparrow Yellow-billed Loon Pied-billed Grebe Little Blue Heron White-breasted Nuthatch Clay-colored Sparrow Wood Stork Horned Grebe Cattle Egret Brown Creeper Field Sparrow Magnificent Frigatebird Red-necked Grebe Green Heron House Wren Vesper Sparrow Tricolored Heron Eared Grebe Black-crowned Night-Heron Winter Wren Lark Sparrow White Ibis Western Grebe Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Sedge Wren Savannah Sparrow Swallow-tailed Kite Clark’s Grebe White-faced Ibis Marsh Wren Grasshopper Sparrow White-tailed Kite Rock Pigeon Turkey Vulture Carolina Wren Henslow’s Sparrow Barn Owl Eurasian Collared-Dove Osprey Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Le Conte’s Sparrow Lewis’s Woodpecker Mourning Dove Bald Eagle Golden-crowned Kinglet Nelson’s Sparrow Acorn Woodpecker Yellow-billed Cuckoo Northern Harrier Ruby-crowned Kinglet Fox Sparrow Williamson’s Sapsucker Black-billed Cuckoo Sharp-shinned Hawk Eastern Bluebird Song Sparrow Crested Caracara Common Nighthawk Cooper’s Hawk Mountain Bluebird Lincoln’s Sparrow Western Wood-Pewee Eastern Whip-poor-will Northern Goshawk Townsend’s Solitaire Swamp Sparrow Vermilion Flycatcher Chimney Swift Red-shouldered Hawk Veery White-throated Sparrow Ash-throated Flycatcher Ruby-throated Hummingbird Broad-winged Hawk Gray-cheeked Thrush Harris’s Sparrow Tropical Kingbird Yellow Rail Swainson’s Hawk Swainson’s Thrush White-crowned Sparrow Cassin’s Kingbird Virginia Rail Red-tailed Hawk Hermit Thrush Dark-eyed Junco Fork-tailed Flycatcher Sora Rough-legged Hawk Wood Thrush Summer Tanager Clark’s Nutcracker Common Gallinule Golden Eagle American Robin Scarlet Tanager Violet-green Swallow American Coot Eastern Screech-Owl Varied Thrush Western Tanager Pygmy Nuthatch Sandhill Crane Great Horned Owl Gray Catbird Northern Cardinal Bewick’s Wren American Avocet Snowy Owl Brown Thrasher Rose-breasted Grosbeak American Dipper Black-bellied Plover Northern Hawk Owl Northern Mockingbird Blue Grosbeak Northern Wheatear American Golden-Plover Barred Owl European Starling Indigo Bunting Fieldfare Semipalmated Plover Great Gray Owl Bohemian Waxwing Dickcissel Curve-billed Thrasher Piping Plover Long-eared Owl Cedar Waxwing Bobolink Sage Thrasher Killdeer Short-eared Owl House Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Brambling Upland Sandpiper Boreal Owl American Pipit Eastern Meadowlark Cassin’s Finch Whimbrel Northern Saw-whet Owl Pine Grosbeak Western Meadowlark McCown’s Longspur Hudsonian Godwit Belted Kingfisher House Finch Yellow-headed Blackbird MacGillivray’s Warbler Marbled Godwit Red-headed Woodpecker Purple Finch Rusty Blackbird Kirtland’s Warbler Ruddy Turnstone Red-bellied Woodpecker Red Crossbill Brewer’s Blackbird Black-throated Gray Warbler Red Knot Yellow-bellied Sapsucker White-winged Crossbill Common Grackle Townsend’s Warbler Stilt Sandpiper Downy Woodpecker Common Redpoll Great-tailed Grackle Hermit Warbler Sanderling Hairy Woodpecker Hoary Redpoll Brown-headed Cowbird Painted Redstart Dunlin American Three-toed Woodpecker Pine Siskin Orchard Oriole Green-tailed Towhee Baird’s Sandpiper Black-backed Woodpecker American Goldfinch Baltimore Oriole Brewer’s Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Baird’s Sparrow Bullock’s Oriole CASUAL Western Sandpiper Glossy Ibis Sprague’s Pipit Scott’s Oriole Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Red Phalarope Black Vulture Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Brant Pomarine Jaeger Mississippi Kite Worm-eating Warbler EXTIRPATED Eurasian Wigeon Black-legged Kittiwake Ferruginous Hawk Yellow-throated Warbler Northern Bobwhite King Eider Laughing Gull Burrowing Owl Prairie Warbler Eskimo Curlew White-winged Dove California Gull Gyrfalcon Lark Bunting Black-necked Stilt Slaty-backed Gull Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Golden-crowned Sparrow EXTINCT Snowy Plover Arctic Tern White-eyed Vireo Black-headed Grosbeak Passenger Pigeon Ruff Neotropic Cormorant Rock Wren Lazuli Bunting Purple Sandpiper Brown Pelican Eurasian Tree Sparrow Painted Bunting ©2016 The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union