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Ebird Field Checklist Barnes County, North Dakota, US Ebird.Org/Region/US-ND-003 278 Species (+36 Other Taxa) - Year-Round, All Years Date eBird Field Checklist Barnes County, North Dakota, US ebird.org/region/US-ND-003 278 species (+36 other taxa) - Year-round, All Years Date: Start Time: Duration: Distance: Party Size: Notes: This checklist is generated with data from eBird (ebird.org), a global database of bird sightings from birders like you. If you enjoy this checklist, please consider contributing your sightings to eBird. It is 100% free to take part, and your observations will help support birders, researchers, and conservationists worldwide. Go to ebird.org to learn more! Waterfowl Ring-necked Duck Western Grebe Cranes Snow Goose Greater Scaup Clark's Grebe Sandhill Crane Ross's Goose Lesser Scaup Western/Clark's Whooping Crane Snow/Ross's Greater/Lesser Grebe Shorebirds Scaup Pigeons and Goose Black-necked Stilt Greater White- Long-tailed Duck Doves Bufflehead American Avocet fronted Goose Rock Pigeon Black-bellied Cackling Goose Common Eurasian Collared- Goldeneye Plover Canada Goose Dove American Golden- Cackling/Canada Hooded Mourning Dove Merganser Plover Goose Cuckoos Black-bellied goose sp. Common Merganser Black-billed Plover/golden- Trumpeter Swan Cuckoo plover sp. Tundra Swan Red-breasted Merganser Nightjars Semipalmated swan sp. Plover Wood Duck Ruddy Duck Common duck sp. Nighthawk Killdeer Blue-winged Teal Upland Sandpiper Cinnamon Teal Grouse, Quail, Swifts and Allies Long-billed Curlew Northern Shoveler Chimney Swift Hudsonian Godwit Gadwall Ring-necked Hummingbird Marbled Godwit American Wigeon Pheasant s Ruddy Turnstone Mallard Gray Partridge Ruby-throated Stilt Sandpiper American Black Sharp-tailed Hummingbird Sanderling Duck Grouse Rails, Dunlin Northern Pintail Wild Turkey Gallinules, Baird's Sandpiper Green-winged Grebes and Allies Least Sandpiper Teal Pied-billed Grebe White-rumped teal sp. Virginia Rail Horned Grebe Sora Sandpiper dabbling duck sp. Red-necked Buff-breasted Canvasback American Coot Grebe Yellow Rail Sandpiper Redhead Eared Grebe Pectoral American Bittern Woodpeckers Red-eyed Vireo Sandpiper Least Bittern Yellow-bellied Shrikes Semipalmated Great Blue Heron Sapsucker Loggerhead Sandpiper Great Egret Red-headed Shrike peep sp. Snowy Egret Woodpecker Northern Shrike Short-billed Cattle Egret Red-bellied Jays, Dowitcher Green Heron Woodpecker Magpies, Long-billed Black-crowned Downy Crows, and Dowitcher Night-Heron Woodpecker Ravens Short-billed/Long- Yellow-crowned Hairy Woodpecker billed Night-Heron Blue Jay Downy/Hairy Black-billed Dowitcher Glossy Ibis Woodpecker American White-faced Ibis Magpie Pileated American Crow Woodcock Vultures, Woodpecker Wilson's Snipe Hawks, and Common Raven Northern Flicker crow/raven sp. Wilson's Allies woodpecker sp. Phalarope Tits, Turkey Vulture Falcons and Chickadees, Red-necked Osprey Caracaras Phalarope and Titmice Golden Eagle American Kestrel Spotted Sandpiper Northern Harrier Black-capped Solitary Sandpiper Merlin Chickadee Sharp-shinned Peregrine Falcon Greater Hawk Larks Yellowlegs Prairie Falcon Cooper's Hawk Tyrant Horned Lark Willet Sharp- Martins and Lesser Yellowlegs Flycatchers: shinned/Coope Pewees, Swallows Greater/Lesser r's Hawk Yellowlegs Kingbirds, Northern Rough- Northern Goshawk and Allies winged Gulls, Terns, This field and Skimmers Olive-sided Swallow checklist was Purple Martin Sabine's Gull generated Flycatcher Eastern Wood- Tree Swallow Bonaparte's Gull using eBird Bank Swallow Franklin's Gull (ebird.org) Pewee Yellow-bellied Barn Swallow Ring-billed Gull Bald Eagle Cliff Swallow California Gull Broad-winged Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher swallow sp. Herring Gull Hawk Kinglets Larus sp. Swainson's Hawk Willow Flycatcher gull sp. Red-tailed Hawk Alder/Willow Golden-crowned Caspian Tern Rough-legged Flycatcher Kinglet Black Tern Hawk (Traill's Ruby-crowned Common Tern Ferruginous Hawk Flycatcher) Kinglet Forster's Tern Buteo sp. Least Flycatcher Nuthatches Common/Forster's hawk sp. Eastern Phoebe Red-breasted Tern Owls Say's Phoebe Nuthatch tern sp. Great Crested White-breasted Eastern Screech- Flycatcher Loons Owl Nuthatch Western Kingbird Treecreepers Common Loon Great Horned Owl Eastern Kingbird Cormorants Snowy Owl flycatcher sp. Brown Creeper and Anhingas Barred Owl (Tyrannidae Wrens Double-crested Long-eared Owl sp.) Rock Wren Cormorant Short-eared Owl Vireos House Wren Pelicans Northern Saw- Winter Wren whet Owl Yellow-throated American White Vireo Sedge Wren owl sp. Marsh Wren Pelican Kingfishers Blue-headed Vireo Herons, Ibis, Philadelphia Vireo This field and Allies Belted Kingfisher Warbling Vireo checklist was generated White-winged Yellow-headed Yellow-rumped using eBird Crossbill Blackbird Warbler (ebird.org) Pine Siskin Bobolink Black-throated Starlings and American Western Green Warbler Mynas Goldfinch Meadowlark Canada Warbler European Starling Longspurs Orchard Oriole Wilson's Warbler Catbirds, and Snow Baltimore Oriole Cardinals, Mockingbirds, Buntings Red-winged Grosbeaks, and Thrashers Lapland Longspur Blackbird and Allies Chestnut-collared Brown-headed Summer Tanager Gray Catbird Cowbird Brown Thrasher Longspur Scarlet Tanager Snow Bunting Rusty Blackbird Western Tanager Northern Brewer's Blackbird Mockingbird New World Northern Cardinal Sparrows Common Grackle Rose-breasted Thrushes Great-tailed Grasshopper Grosbeak Eastern Bluebird Grackle Black-headed Mountain Bluebird Sparrow blackbird sp. Chipping Sparrow Grosbeak Townsend's Wood- Indigo Bunting Solitaire Clay-colored Warblers Sparrow Dickcissel Varied Thrush Ovenbird Others Veery Field Sparrow Spizella sp. Northern bird sp. Gray-cheeked Waterthrush Lark Sparrow Thrush Golden-winged Swainson's Lark Bunting American Tree Warbler Thrush Blue-winged Hermit Thrush Sparrow Spizella Warbler Catharus sp. Black-and-white Wood Thrush sp./American Tree Sparrow Warbler American Robin This field Waxwings Fox Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco checklist was Bohemian White-crowned generated Waxwing Sparrow using eBird Cedar Waxwing Harris's Sparrow (ebird.org) Old World White-throated Tennessee Sparrows Sparrow Warbler House Sparrow Zonotrichia sp. Orange-crowned Eurasian Tree Vesper Sparrow Warbler Sparrow LeConte's Nashville Warbler Wagtails and Sparrow Connecticut Pipits Nelson's Sparrow Warbler Mourning Warbler American Pipit Savannah Sparrow Common Sprague's Pipit Yellowthroat Finches, Henslow's Sparrow American Redstart Euphonias, Cape May Warbler and Allies Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Northern Parula Pine Grosbeak Swamp Sparrow Magnolia Warbler Gray-crowned Spotted Towhee Bay-breasted Rosy-Finch Eastern Towhee Warbler House Finch Spotted/Eastern Blackburnian Purple Finch Towhee Warbler House/Purple (Rufous-sided Yellow Warbler Finch Towhee) Chestnut-sided Common Redpoll sparrow sp. Warbler Hoary Redpoll Blackbirds Blackpoll Warbler Red Crossbill Palm Warbler .
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