Here you will find lists of all 430 of Minnesota's birds as accepted by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Records Committee. The lists are current as of January 2005.

Also available is a complete Minnesota checklist. Separated into groups representing Regular, Casual and Accidental species, this checklist will fit on one side of a single 8.5" X 11" sheet of paper with 1/4" margins.

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The lists available here:

• Regular Species In Minnesota (312)
• Casual Species In Minnesota (35)
• Accidental Species In Minnesota (80 plus 2 extirpated and 1 extinct)

Regular Species In Minnesota (312)

Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Gray Partridge Ring-necked Pheasant Ruffed Grouse Spruce Grouse Sharp-tailed Grouse Greater Prairie-Chicken Wild Turkey Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe American White Pelican Double-crested Cormorant American Bittern Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey

Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Yellow Rail Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Sandhill Crane Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Parasitic Jaeger Franklin's Gull Little Gull Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull

Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Black Tern Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Northern Hawk Owl Barred Owl Great Gray Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Boreal Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Northern Shrike Bell's Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Gray Jay Blue Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Boreal Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Varied Thrush Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling American Pipit Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat

Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager Spotted Towhee Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Lapland Longspur Smith's Longspur Chestnut-collared Longspur Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole Pine Grosbeak Purple Finch House Finch Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Common Redpoll Hoary Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow

Casual Species In Minnesota (35)

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Eurasian Wigeon Cinnamon Teal King Eider Barrow's Goldeneye Tricolored Heron White-faced Ibis

Mississippi Kite Gyrfalcon Ruff Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Laughing Gull Black-headed Gull

California Gull Sabine's Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Arctic Tern Least Tern Band-tailed Pigeon Burrowing Owl

Say's Phoebe Scissor-tailed Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Rock Wren Sage Thrasher Sprague's Pipit Yellow-throated Warbler

Prairie Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Black-throated Sparrow Lark Bunting Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Painted Bunting

Accidental Species In Minnesota (80 plus 2 extirpated and 1 extinct)

Fulvous Whistling-Duck Brant Garganey Common Eider Smew Willow Ptarmigan Rock Ptarmigan Yellow-billed Loon Neotropic Cormorant Magnificent Frigatebird White Ibis Glossy Ibis Black Vulture Wood Stork Swallow-tailed Kite White-tailed Kite Crested Caracara

Black Rail King Rail Purple Gallinule Whooping Crane Snowy Plover Wilson's Plover Black-necked Stilt Long-billed Curlew Western Sandpiper Purple Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Long-tailed Jaeger Mew Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Ross's Gull Ivory Gull Sandwich Tern

Dovekie Ancient Murrelet White-winged Dove Common Ground-Dove Groove-billed Ani Barn Owl Common Poorwill Chuck-will's-widow White-throated Swift Green Violet-ear Magnificent Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Lewis's Woodpecker Williamson's Sapsucker

Western Wood-Pewee Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Fork-tailed Flycatcher Clark's Nutcracker Violet-green Swallow Pygmy Nuthatch Bewick's Wren American Dipper Northern Wheatear Fieldfare Curve-billed Thrasher Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Kirtland's Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler

Painted Redstart Green-tailed Towhee Brewer's Sparrow Baird's Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow McCown's Longspur Bullock's Oriole Scott's Oriole Brambling Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Cassin's Finch Eurasian Tree Sparrow Northern Bobwhite (Extirpated) Eskimo Curlew (Extirpated) Passenger Pigeon (Extinct)

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