Birds of Montana - Taxonomic List - 2013 Rare Birds are Highlighted
The following list of Montana birds is organized taxonomically (follow the seventh edition of the Check-list of North American Birds (AOU 1998) and all supplements to the check-list published through 2011 (AOU 2011). An alphabetic list of birds appears on page 4. This list was developed for individuals recording birds through the Montana Bird Distribution project. Because we need you to record bird names accurately in the quarter- quarter latilong (QQLL) spreadsheet, we want you to have an official bird list (so you can check the official spelling easily). The birds that are highlighted (orange in color and italicized) on the list require additional information to be gathered. These birds are species that are of conservation concern or considered rare within the state. This list can also be downloaded at
Geese/Ducks/Swans Common Merganser Herons and Allies Greater White-fronted Goose Red-breasted Merganser American Bittern Snow Goose Ruddy Duck Least Bittern Ross’s Goose Great Blue Heron Brant Grouse and Allies Great Egret Cackling Goose California Quail Snowy Egret Canada Goose Chukar Little Blue Heron Mute Swan Gray Partridge Cattle Egret Trumpeter Swan Ring-necked Pheasant Green Heron Tundra Swan Ruffed Grouse Black-crowned Night-Heron Wood Duck Greater Sage-Grouse Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Gadwall Spruce Grouse Glossy Ibis Eurasian Wigeon Willow Ptarmigan White-faced Ibis American Wigeon White-tailed Ptarmigan American Black Duck Dusky Grouse Raptors Mallard Sharp-tailed Grouse Turkey Vulture Blue-winged Teal Greater Prairie-Chicken Osprey Cinnamon Teal Wild Turkey White-tailed Kite Northern Shoveler Mississippi Kite Northern Pintail Loons and Grebes Bald Eagle Garganey Red-throated Loon Northern Harrier Baikal Teal Pacific Loon Sharp-shinned Hawk Green-winged Teal Common Loon Cooper’s Hawk Canvasback Yellow-billed Loon Northern Goshawk Redhead Pied-billed Grebe Red-shouldered Hawk Ring-necked Duck Horned Grebe Broad-winged Hawk Tufted Duck Red-necked Grebe Swainson’s Hawk Greater Scaup Eared Grebe Red-tailed Hawk Lesser Scaup Western Grebe Ferruginous Hawk Harlequin Duck Clark’s Grebe Rough-legged Hawk Surf Scoter Golden Eagle White-winged Scoter Shearwater/Stork Crested Caracara Black Scoter Manx Shearwater American Kestrel Long-tailed Duck Wood Stork Merlin Bufflehead Gyrfalcon Common Goldeneye Cormorants/Pelicans Peregrine Falcon Barrow’s Goldeneye Double-crested Cormorant Prairie Falcon Hooded Merganser American White Pelican
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Rails/Coots/Cranes Wilson’s Phalarope Owls Yellow Rail Red-necked Phalarope Barn Owl Virginia Rail Red Phalarope Flammulated Owl Sora Western Screech-Owl Common Gallinule Gulls/Terns and Allies Eastern Screech-Owl American Coot Black-legged Kittiwake Great Horned Owl Sandhill Crane Sabine’s Gull Snowy Owl Whooping Crane Bonaparte’s Gull Northern Hawk Owl Little Gull Northern Pygmy-Owl Sandpipers and Allies Ross's Gull Burrowing Owl Black-bellied Plover Laughing Gull Barred Owl American Golden-Plover Franklin’s Gull Great Gray Owl Snowy Plover Mew Gull Long-eared Owl Semipalmated Plover Ring-billed Gull Short-eared Owl Piping Plover California Gull Boreal Owl Killdeer Herring Gull Northern Saw-whet Owl Mountain Plover Thayer’s Gull Black-necked Stilt Iceland Gull Goatsuckers American Avocet Lesser Black-backed Gull Common Nighthawk Spotted Sandpiper Glaucous-winged Gull Common Poorwill Solitary Sandpiper Glaucus Gull Whip-poor-will species Greater Yellowlegs Great Black-backed Gull Willet Least Tern Swifts Lesser Yellowlegs Caspian Tern Black Swift Upland Sandpiper Black Tern Chimney Swift Whimbrel Common Tern Vaux’s Swift Long-billed Curlew Arctic Tern White-throated Swift Hudsonian Godwit Forster’s Tern Marbled Godwit Hummingbirds Ruddy Turnstone Jaegers/Murrelets Ruby-throated Hummingbird Black Turnstone Pomarine Jaeger Black-chinned Hummingbird Red Knot Parasitic Jaeger Anna’s Hummingbird Sanderling Long-tailed Jaeger Costa’s Hummingbird Semipalmated Sandpiper Long-billed Murrelet Calliope Hummingbird Western Sandpiper Ancient Murrelet Broad-tailed Hummingbird Least Sandpiper Rufous Hummingbird White-rumped Sandpiper Doves and Allies Baird’s Sandpiper Rock Pigeon Kingfishers Pectoral Sandpiper Band-tailed Pigeon Belted Kingfisher Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Eurasian Collared-Dove Dunlin White-winged Dove Woodpeckers Curlew Sandpiper Mourning Dove Lewis’s Woodpecker Stilt Sandpiper Inca Dove Red-headed Woodpecker Buff-breasted Sandpiper Red-bellied Woodpecker Short-billed Dowitcher Cuckoos Williamson’s Sapsucker Long-billed Dowitcher Yellow-billed Cuckoo Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Wilson’s Snipe Black-billed Cuckoo Red-naped Sapsucker American Woodcock Downy Woodpecker
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Hairy Woodpecker Western Scrub-Jay Mountain Bluebird White-headed Woodpecker Clark’s Nutcracker Townsend’s Solitaire American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-billed Magpie Veery Black-backed Woodpecker American Crow Gray-cheeked Thrush Northern Flicker Common Raven Swainson’s Thrush Pileated Woodpecker Hermit Thrush Larks/Swallows Wood Thrush Flycatchers Horned Lark American Robin Olive-sided Flycatcher Purple Martin Varied Thrush Western Wood-Pewee Tree Swallow Eastern Wood-Pewee Violet-green Swallow Catbirds/Thrashers/Mockingbirds Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Northern Rough-winged Swallow Gray Catbird Alder Flycatcher Bank Swallow Northern Mockingbird Willow Flycatcher Cliff Swallow Sage Thrasher Least Flycatcher Barn Swallow Brown Thrasher Hammond’s Flycatcher Curve-billed Thrasher Gray Flycatcher Chickadees/Nuthatches Dusky Flycatcher Black-capped Chickadee Starlings Cordilleran Flycatcher Mountain Chickadee European Starling Eastern Phoebe Chestnut-backed Chickadee Say’s Phoebe Boreal Chickadee Accentors/Pipets Vermilion Flycatcher Red-breasted Nuthatch Siberian Accentor Ash-throated Flycatcher White-breasted Nuthatch American Pipit Great Crested Flycatcher Pygmy Nuthatch Sprague’s Pipit Cassin’s Kingbird Western Kingbird Creepers/Wrens Waxwings Eastern Kingbird Brown Creeper Bohemian Waxwing Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Rock Wren Cedar Waxwing Canyon Wren Shrike Carolina Wren Longspurs/Buntings Loggerhead Shrike Bewick’s Wren Lapland Longspur Northern Shrike House Wren Chestnut-collared Longspur Pacific Wren Smith’s Longspur Vireos Winter Wren McCown’s Longspur White-eyed Vireo Sedge Wren Snow Bunting Yellow-throated Vireo Marsh Wren Plumbeous Vireo Warblers and Allies Cassin’s Vireo Gnatcatchers/Dippers Ovenbird Blue-headed Vireo Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Northern Waterthrush Warbling Vireo American Dipper Golden-winged Warbler Philadelphia Vireo Blue-winged Warbler Red-eyed Vireo Kinglets Black-and-white Warbler Golden-crowned Kinglet Prothonotary Warbler Corvids Ruby-crowned Kinglet Tennessee Warbler Gray Jay Orange-crowned Warbler Pinyon Jay Thrush Nashville Warbler Steller’s Jay Eastern Bluebird Connecticut Warbler Blue Jay Western Bluebird MacGillivray’s Warbler
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Mourning Warbler Lark Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Kentucky Warbler Black-throated Sparrow Eastern Meadowlark Common Yellowthroat Sagebrush Sparrow Western Meadowlark Hooded Warbler Lark Bunting Yellow-headed Blackbird American Redstart Savannah Sparrow Rusty Blackbird Cape May Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow Brewer’s Blackbird Northern Parula Baird’s Sparrow Common Grackle Magnolia Warbler Le Conte’s Sparrow Great-tailed Grackle Bay-breasted Warbler Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow Brown-headed Cowbird Blackburnian Warbler Fox Sparrow Orchard Oriole Yellow Warbler Song Sparrow Hooded Oriole Chestnut-sided Warbler Lincoln’s Sparrow Bullock's Oriole Blackpoll Warbler Swamp Sparrow Baltimore Oriole Black-throated Blue Warbler White-throated Sparrow Palm Warbler Harris’s Sparrow Finch/Crossbills and Allies Pine Warbler White-crowned Sparrow Brambling Yellow-rumped Warbler Golden-crowned Sparrow Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Yellow-throated Warbler Dark-eyed Junco Black Rosy-Finch Prairie Warbler Pine Grosbeak Black-throated Gray Warbler Tanagers/Grosbeaks/Buntings Purple Finch Townsend’s Warbler Summer Tanager Cassin’s Finch Black-throated Green Warbler Scarlet Tanager House Finch Canada Warbler Western Tanager Wilson’s Warbler Northern Cardinal Crossbils/Redpolls/Goldfinch Painted Redstart Pyrrhuloxia Red Crossbill Yellow-breasted Chat Rose-breasted Grosbeak White-winged Crossbill Black-headed Grosbeak Common Redpoll Towhees/Sparrows Blue Grosbeak Hoary Redpoll Green-tailed Towhee Pine Siskin Spotted Towhee Buntings/Dickcissels Lesser Goldfinch Eastern Towhee Lazuli Bunting American Goldfinch American Tree Sparrow Indigo Bunting Evening Grosbeak Chipping Sparrow Painted Bunting Clay-colored Sparrow Dickcissel House Sparrows Brewer’s Sparrow House Sparrow Field Sparrow Blackbirds/Orioles Vesper Sparrow Bobolink
NOTE: Rare Birds as of 10/1/2014 are in an orange, italicized font. Rare bird report forms are on the: Montana Audubon website (www.mtaudubon.org/birds/report.html). Please submit rare bird records to: [email protected].
Birds of Montana - Alphabetical List - 2013 Rare Birds are Highlighted
Alder Flycatcher American Coot American Goldfinch American Avocet American Crow American Kestrel American Bittern American Dipper American Pipit American Black Duck American Golden-Plover American Redstart Page 4
American Robin Blue Grosbeak Clark’s Nutcracker American Three-toed Blue Jay Clay-colored Sparrow Woodpecker Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Cliff Swallow American Tree Sparrow Blue-headed Vireo Common Gallinule American White Pelican Blue-winged Teal Common Goldeneye American Wigeon Blue-winged Warbler Common Grackle American Woodcock Bobolink Common Loon Ancient Murrelet Bohemian Waxwing Common Merganser Anna’s Hummingbird Bonaparte’s Gull Common Nighthawk Arctic Tern Boreal Chickadee Common Poorwill Ash-throated Flycatcher Boreal Owl Common Raven Baikal Teal Brambling Common Redpoll Baird’s Sandpiper Brant Common Tern Baird’s Sparrow Brewer’s Blackbird Common Yellowthroat Bald Eagle Brewer’s Sparrow Connecticut Warbler Baltimore Oriole Broad-tailed Hummingbird Cooper’s Hawk Band-tailed Pigeon Broad-winged Hawk Cordilleran Flycatcher Bank Swallow Brown Creeper Costa’s Hummingbird Barn Owl Brown Thrasher Crested Caracara Barn Swallow Brown-headed Cowbird Curlew Sandpiper Barred Owl Buff-breasted Sandpiper Curve-billed Thrasher Barrow’s Goldeneye Bufflehead Dark-eyed Junco Bay-breasted Warbler Bullock's Oriole Dickcissel Belted Kingfisher Burrowing Owl Double-crested Cormorant Bewick’s Wren Cackling Goose Downy Woodpecker Black Rosy-Finch California Gull Dunlin Black Scoter California Quail Dusky Flycatcher Black Swift Calliope Hummingbird Dusky Grouse Black Tern Canada Goose Eared Grebe Black Turnstone Canada Warbler Eastern Bluebird Black-and-white Warbler Canvasback Eastern Kingbird Black-backed Woodpecker Canyon Wren Eastern Meadowlark Black-bellied Plover Cape May Warbler Eastern Phoebe Black-billed Cuckoo Carolina Wren Eastern Screech-Owl Black-billed Magpie Caspian Tern Eastern Towhee Black-capped Chickadee Cassin’s Finch Eastern Wood-Pewee Black-chinned Hummingbird Cassin’s Kingbird Eurasian Collared-Dove Black-crowned Night-Heron Cassin’s Vireo Eurasian Wigeon Black-headed Grosbeak Cattle Egret European Starling Black-legged Kittiwake Cedar Waxwing Evening Grosbeak Black-necked Stilt Chestnut-backed Chickadee Ferruginous Hawk Black-throated Blue Warbler Chestnut-collared Longspur Field Sparrow Black-throated Gray Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Flammulated Owl Black-throated Green Chimney Swift Forster’s Tern Warbler Chipping Sparrow Fox Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Chukar Franklin’s Gull Blackburnian Warbler Cinnamon Teal Gadwall Blackpoll Warbler Clark’s Grebe Garganey
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Glaucous-winged Gull Inca Dove Northern Cardinal Glaucus Gull Indigo Bunting Northern Flicker Glossy Ibis Kentucky Warbler Northern Goshawk Gnatcatchers/Dippers Killdeer Northern Harrier Golden Eagle Lapland Longspur Northern Hawk Owl Golden-crowned Kinglet Lark Bunting Northern Mockingbird Golden-crowned Sparrow Lark Sparrow Northern Parula Golden-winged Warbler Laughing Gull Northern Pintail Grasshopper Sparrow Lazuli Bunting Northern Pygmy-Owl Gray Catbird Le Conte’s Sparrow Northern Rough-winged Gray Flycatcher Least Bittern Swallow Gray Jay Least Flycatcher Northern Saw-whet Owl Gray Partridge Least Sandpiper Northern Shoveler Gray-cheeked Thrush Least Tern Northern Shrike Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Lesser Black-backed Gull Northern Waterthrush Great Black-backed Gull Lesser Goldfinch Olive-sided Flycatcher Great Blue Heron Lesser Scaup Orange-crowned Warbler Great Crested Flycatcher Lesser Yellowlegs Orchard Oriole Great Egret Lewis’s Woodpecker Osprey Great Gray Owl Lincoln’s Sparrow Ovenbird Great Horned Owl Little Blue Heron Pacific Loon Great-tailed Grackle Little Gull Pacific Wren Greater Prairie-Chicken Loggerhead Shrike Painted Bunting Greater Sage-Grouse Long-billed Curlew Painted Redstart Greater Scaup Long-billed Dowitcher Palm Warbler Greater White-fronted Goose Long-billed Murrelet Parasitic Jaeger Greater Yellowlegs Long-eared Owl Pectoral Sandpiper Green Heron Long-tailed Duck Peregrine Falcon Green-tailed Towhee Long-tailed Jaeger Philadelphia Vireo Green-winged Teal MacGillivray’s Warbler Pied-billed Grebe Gyrfalcon Magnolia Warbler Pileated Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Mallard Pine Grosbeak Hammond’s Flycatcher Manx Shearwater Pine Siskin Harlequin Duck Marbled Godwit Pine Warbler Harris’s Sparrow Marsh Wren Pinyon Jay Hermit Thrush McCown’s Longspur Piping Plover Herring Gull Merlin Plumbeous Vireo Hoary Redpoll Mew Gull Pomarine Jaeger Hooded Merganser Mississippi Kite Prairie Falcon Hooded Oriole Mountain Bluebird Prairie Warbler Hooded Warbler Mountain Chickadee Prothonotary Warbler Horned Grebe Mountain Plover Purple Finch Horned Lark Mourning Dove Purple Martin House Finch Mourning Warbler Pygmy Nuthatch House Sparrow Mute Swan Pyrrhuloxia House Wren Nashville Warbler Red Crossbill Hudsonian Godwit Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Red Knot Iceland Gull Sparrow Red Phalarope
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Red-bellied Woodpecker Short-eared Owl Western Screech-Owl Red-breasted Merganser Siberian Accentor Western Scrub-Jay Red-breasted Nuthatch Smith’s Longspur Western Tanager Red-eyed Vireo Snow Bunting Western Wood-Pewee Red-headed Woodpecker Snow Goose Whimbrel Red-naped Sapsucker Snowy Egret Whip-poor-will species Red-necked Grebe Snowy Owl White-breasted Nuthatch Red-necked Phalarope Snowy Plover White-crowned Sparrow Red-shouldered Hawk Solitary Sandpiper White-eyed Vireo Red-tailed Hawk Song Sparrow White-faced Ibis Red-throated Loon Sora White-headed Woodpecker Red-winged Blackbird Spotted Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Redhead Spotted Towhee White-tailed Kite Ring-billed Gull Sprague’s Pipit White-tailed Ptarmigan Ring-necked Duck Spruce Grouse White-throated Sparrow Ring-necked Pheasant Steller’s Jay White-throated Swift Rock Pigeon Stilt Sandpiper White-winged Crossbill Rock Wren Summer Tanager White-winged Dove Rose-breasted Grosbeak Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Ross's Gull Swainson’s Hawk Whooping Crane Ross’s Goose Swainson’s Thrush Wild Turkey Rough-legged Hawk Swamp Sparrow Willet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Tennessee Warbler Williamson’s Sapsucker Ruby-throated Hummingbird Thayer’s Gull Willow Flycatcher Ruddy Duck Townsend’s Solitaire Willow Ptarmigan Ruddy Turnstone Townsend’s Warbler Wilson’s Phalarope Ruffed Grouse Tree Swallow Wilson’s Snipe Rufous Hummingbird Trumpeter Swan Wilson’s Warbler Rusty Blackbird Tufted Duck Winter Wren Sabine’s Gull Tundra Swan Wood Duck Sage Thrasher Turkey Vulture Wood Stork Sagebrush Sparrow Upland Sandpiper Wood Thrush Sanderling Varied Thrush Yellow Rail Sandhill Crane Vaux’s Swift Yellow Warbler Savannah Sparrow Veery Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Say’s Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Scarlet Tanager Vesper Sparrow Yellow-billed Cuckoo Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Violet-green Swallow Yellow-billed Loon Sedge Wren Virginia Rail Yellow-breasted Chat Semipalmated Plover Warbling Vireo Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Bluebird Yellow-headed Blackbird Sharp-shinned Hawk Western Grebe Yellow-rumped Warbler Sharp-tailed Grouse Western Kingbird Yellow-throated Vireo Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Western Meadowlark Yellow-throated Warbler Short-billed Dowitcher Western Sandpiper
NOTE: Rare Birds as of 10/1/2014 are in an orange, italicized font. Rare bird report forms are on the: Montana Audubon website (www.mtaudubon.org/birds/report.html). Please submit rare bird records to: [email protected].
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