Checklist of the Birds of Minnesota December 2014
Regular (316 species) White-faced Ibis Caspian Tern Tree Swallow Blackpoll Warbler Greater White-fronted Goose Turkey Vulture Black Tern Northern Rough-winged Swallow Black-throated Blue Warbler Snow Goose Osprey Common Tern Bank Swallow Palm Warbler Ross’s Goose Bald Eagle Forster’s Tern Cliff Swallow Pine Warbler Cackling Goose Northern Harrier Rock Pigeon Barn Swallow Yellow-rumped Warbler Canada Goose Sharp-shinned Hawk Eurasian Collared-Dove Black-capped Chickadee Black-throated Green Warbler Mute Swan Cooper’s Hawk Mourning Dove Boreal Chickadee Canada Warbler Trumpeter Swan Northern Goshawk Yellow-billed Cuckoo Tufted Titmouse Wilson’s Warbler Tundra Swan Red-shouldered Hawk Black-billed Cuckoo Red-breasted Nuthatch Yellow-breasted Chat Wood Duck Broad-winged Hawk Eastern Screech-Owl White-breasted Nuthatch Spotted Towhee Gadwall Swainson’s Hawk Great Horned Owl Brown Creeper Eastern Towhee American Wigeon Red-tailed Hawk Snowy Owl House Wren American Tree Sparrow American Black Duck Rough-legged Hawk Northern Hawk Owl Winter Wren Chipping Sparrow Mallard Golden Eagle Barred Owl Sedge Wren Clay-colored Sparrow Blue-winged Teal Yellow Rail Great Gray Owl Marsh Wren Field Sparrow Cinnamon Teal Virginia Rail Long-eared Owl Carolina Wren Vesper Sparrow Northern Shoveler Sora Short-eared Owl Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Lark Sparrow Northern Pintail Common Gallinule Boreal Owl Golden-crowned Kinglet Savannah Sparrow Green-winged Teal American Coot Northern Saw-whet Owl Ruby-crowned Kinglet Grasshopper Sparrow Canvasback Sandhill Crane Common Nighthawk Eastern Bluebird Henslow’s Sparrow Redhead American Avocet Eastern Whip-poor-will Mountain Bluebird Le Conte’s Sparrow Ring-necked Duck Black-bellied Plover Chimney Swift Townsend’s Solitaire Nelson’s Sparrow Greater Scaup American Golden-Plover Ruby-throated Hummingbird Veery Fox Sparrow Lesser Scaup Semipalmated Plover Belted Kingfisher Gray-cheeked Thrush Song Sparrow Harlequin Duck Piping Plover Red-headed Woodpecker Swainson’s Thrush Lincoln’s Sparrow Surf Scoter Killdeer Red-bellied Woodpecker Hermit Thrush Swamp Sparrow White-winged Scoter Spotted Sandpiper Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Wood Thrush White-throated Sparrow Black Scoter Solitary Sandpiper Downy Woodpecker American Robin Harris’s Sparrow Long-tailed Duck Greater Yellowlegs Hairy Woodpecker Varied Thrush White-crowned Sparrow Bufflehead Willet American Three-toed Woodpecker Gray Catbird Dark-eyed Junco Common Goldeneye Lesser Yellowlegs Black-backed Woodpecker Brown Thrasher Summer Tanager Barrow’s Goldeneye Upland Sandpiper Northern Flicker Northern Mockingbird Scarlet Tanager Hooded Merganser Whimbrel Pileated Woodpecker European Starling Western Tanager Common Merganser Hudsonian Godwit American Kestrel American Pipit Northern Cardinal Red-breasted Merganser Marbled Godwit Merlin Bohemian Waxwing Rose-breasted Grosbeak Ruddy Duck Ruddy Turnstone Peregrine Falcon Cedar Waxwing Blue Grosbeak Gray Partridge Red Knot Prairie Falcon Lapland Longspur Indigo Bunting Ring-necked Pheasant Stilt Sandpiper Olive-sided Flycatcher Chestnut-collared Longspur Dickcissel Ruffed Grouse Sanderling Eastern Wood-Pewee Smith’s Longspur Bobolink Spruce Grouse Dunlin Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Snow Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Sharp-tailed Grouse Baird’s Sandpiper Acadian Flycatcher Ovenbird Eastern Meadowlark Greater Prairie-Chicken Least Sandpiper Alder Flycatcher Louisiana Waterthrush Western Meadowlark Wild Turkey White-rumped Sandpiper Willow Flycatcher Northern Waterthrush Yellow-headed Blackbird Red-throated Loon Buff-breasted Sandpiper Least Flycatcher Golden-winged Warbler Rusty Blackbird Pacific Loon Pectoral Sandpiper Eastern Phoebe Blue-winged Warbler Brewer’s Blackbird Common Loon Semipalmated Sandpiper Say’s Phoebe Black-and-white Warbler Common Grackle Pied-billed Grebe Short-billed Dowitcher Great Crested Flycatcher Prothonotary Warbler Great-tailed Grackle Horned Grebe Long-billed Dowitcher Western Kingbird Tennessee Warbler Brown-headed Cowbird Red-necked Grebe Wilson’s Snipe Eastern Kingbird Orange-crowned Warbler Orchard Oriole Eared Grebe American Woodcock Loggerhead Shrike Nashville Warbler Baltimore Oriole Western Grebe Wilson’s Phalarope Northern Shrike Connecticut Warbler Pine Grosbeak Clark’s Grebe Red-necked Phalarope Bell’s Vireo Mourning Warbler House Finch Double-crested Cormorant Parasitic Jaeger Yellow-throated Vireo Kentucky Warbler Purple Finch American White Pelican Sabine’s Gull Blue-headed Vireo Common Yellowthroat Red Crossbill American Bittern Bonaparte’s Gull Warbling Vireo Hooded Warbler White-winged Crossbill Least Bittern Little Gull Philadelphia Vireo American Redstart Common Redpoll Great Blue Heron Franklin’s Gull Red-eyed Vireo Cape May Warbler Hoary Redpoll Great Egret Ring-billed Gull Gray Jay Cerulean Warbler Pine Siskin Snowy Egret Herring Gull Blue Jay Northern Parula American Goldfinch Little Blue Heron Thayer’s Gull Black-billed Magpie Magnolia Warbler Evening Grosbeak Cattle Egret Iceland Gull American Crow Bay-breasted Warbler House Sparrow Green Heron Lesser Black-backed Gull Common Raven Blackburnian Warbler Black-crowned Night-Heron Glaucous Gull Horned Lark Yellow Warbler Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Great Black-backed Gull Purple Martin Chestnut-sided Warbler
Casual (39 species) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher White Ibis Groove-billed Ani Northern Wheatear Black-bellied Whistling-Duck White-eyed Vireo Swallow-tailed Kite Barn Owl Fieldfare Brant Rock Wren White-tailed Kite Common Poorwill Curve-billed Thrasher Eurasian Wigeon Sprague’s Pipit Black Rail Chuck-will’s-widow Sage Thrasher King Eider Worm-eating Warbler King Rail White-throated Swift McCown’s Longspur Neotropic Cormorant Yellow-throated Warbler Purple Gallinule Green Violetear MacGillivray’s Warbler Brown Pelican Prairie Warbler Whooping Crane Magnificent Hummingbird Kirtland’s Warbler Glossy Ibis Lark Bunting Wilson’s Plover Anna’s Hummingbird Black-throated Gray Warbler Black Vulture Golden-crowned Sparrow Long-billed Curlew Costa’s Hummingbird Townsend’s Warbler Mississippi Kite Black-headed Grosbeak Curlew Sandpiper Rufous Hummingbird Hermit Warbler Ferruginous Hawk Lazuli Bunting Long-tailed Jaeger Calliope Hummingbird Painted Redstart Black-necked Stilt Painted Bunting Dovekie Lewis’s Woodpecker Green-tailed Towhee Snowy Plover Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Black Guillemot Acorn Woodpecker Brewer’s Sparrow Ruff Eurasian Tree Sparrow Long-billed Murrelet Williamson’s Sapsucker Black-throated Sparrow Purple Sandpiper Ancient Murrelet Crested Caracara Baird’s Sparrow Western Sandpiper Accidental (81 species) Ivory Gull Western Wood-Pewee Bullock’s Oriole Red Phalarope Fulvous Whistling-Duck Black-headed Gull Vermilion Flycatcher Scott’s Oriole Pomarine Jaeger Garganey Ross’s Gull Ash-throated Flycatcher Brambling Black-legged Kittiwake Common Eider Mew Gull Tropical/Couch’s Kingbird Cassin’s Finch Laughing Gull Smew Glaucous-winged Gull Cassin’s Kingbird California Gull Willow Ptarmigan Least Tern Fork-tailed Flycatcher Extirpated (2 species) Slaty-backed Gull Rock Ptarmigan Sandwich Tern Clark’s Nutcracker Northern Bobwhite Arctic Tern Yellow-billed Loon Elegant Tern Violet-green Swallow Eskimo Curlew White-winged Dove Wood Stork Band-tailed Pigeon Pygmy Nuthatch Burrowing Owl Magnificent Frigatebird Inca Dove Bewick’s Wren Extinct (1 species) Gyrfalcon Tricolored Heron Common Ground-Dove American Dipper Passenger Pigeon