Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
A standing committee of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union

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MOURC Review List - 2006

The following 116 species from the Minnesota list all require documentation before an observation can be admitted into the Minnesota permanent record.



Casual Species: seen fewer than nine times in the past ten years but more than twice (35 species)
 
   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: seen fewer than three times in the past ten years (81 species)
 
   Fulvous Whistling-Duck
   Brant
   Garganey
   Common Eider
   Smew
   Willow Ptarmigan
   Rock Ptarmigan
   Yellow-billed Loon
   Brown Pelican
   Neotropic Cormorant
   Magnificent Frigatebird
   White Ibis
   Glossy Ibis
   Wood Stork
   Black Vulture
   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