Minnesota Checklist -
The Birds of Minnesota — January 2009* ©The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union
 
-- Regular Species -- American Golden-Plover White-eyed Vireo Field Sparrow Lark Bunting
Greater White-fronted Goose Semipalmated Plover Bell's Vireo Vesper Sparrow Black-headed Grosbeak
Snow Goose Piping Plover Yellow-throated Vireo Lark Sparrow Lazuli Bunting
Ross's Goose Killdeer Blue-headed Vireo Savannah Sparrow Painted Bunting
Cackling Goose American Avocet Warbling Vireo Grasshopper Sparrow Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Canada Goose Spotted Sandpiper Philadelphia Vireo Henslow's Sparrow Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Mute Swan Solitary Sandpiper Red-eyed Vireo Le Conte's Sparrow -- Accidental Species --
Trumpeter Swan Greater Yellowlegs Gray Jay Nelson's Sparrow Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Tundra Swan Willet Blue Jay Fox Sparrow Garganey
Wood Duck Lesser Yellowlegs Black-billed Magpie Song Sparrow Common Eider
Gadwall Upland Sandpiper American Crow Lincoln's Sparrow Smew
American Wigeon Whimbrel Common Raven Swamp Sparrow Willow Ptarmigan
American Black Duck Hudsonian Godwit Horned Lark White-throated Sparrow Rock Ptarmigan
Mallard Marbled Godwit Purple Martin Harris's Sparrow Yellow-billed Loon
Blue-winged Teal Ruddy Turnstone Tree Swallow White-crowned Sparrow Brown Pelican
Cinnamon Teal Red Knot Northern Rough-winged Swallow Dark-eyed Junco Magnificent Frigatebird
Northern Shoveler Sanderling Bank Swallow Lapland Longspur White Ibis
Northern Pintail Semipalmated Sandpiper Cliff Swallow Smith's Longspur Glossy Ibis
Green-winged Teal Least Sandpiper Barn Swallow Chestnut-collared Longspur Wood Stork
Canvasback White-rumped Sandpiper Black-capped Chickadee Snow Bunting White-tailed Kite
Redhead Baird's Sandpiper Boreal Chickadee Summer Tanager Crested Caracara
Ring-necked Duck Pectoral Sandpiper Tufted Titmouse Scarlet Tanager Black Rail
Greater Scaup Dunlin Red-breasted Nuthatch Western Tanager King Rail
Lesser Scaup Stilt Sandpiper White-breasted Nuthatch Northern Cardinal Purple Gallinule
Harlequin Duck Buff-breasted Sandpiper Brown Creeper Rose-breasted Grosbeak Whooping Crane
Surf Scoter Short-billed Dowitcher Carolina Wren Blue Grosbeak Wilson's Plover
White-winged Scoter Long-billed Dowitcher House Wren Indigo Bunting Purple Sandpiper
Black Scoter Wilson's Snipe Winter Wren Dickcissel Curlew Sandpiper
Long-tailed Duck American Woodcock Sedge Wren Bobolink Ivory Gull
Bufflehead Wilson's Phalarope Marsh Wren Red-winged Blackbird Ross's Gull
Common Goldeneye Red-necked Phalarope Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Meadowlark Laughing Gull
Hooded Merganser Bonaparte's Gull Ruby-crowned Kinglet Western Meadowlark Mew Gull
Common Merganser Little Gull Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Yellow-headed Blackbird Slaty-backed Gull
Red-breasted Merganser Franklin's Gull Eastern Bluebird Rusty Blackbird Glaucous-winged Gull
Ruddy Duck Ring-billed Gull Mountain Bluebird Brewer's Blackbird Sandwich Tern
Gray Partridge Herring Gull Townsend's Solitaire Common Grackle Elegant Tern
Ring-necked Pheasant Thayer's Gull Veery Great-tailed Grackle Long-tailed Jaeger
Ruffed Grouse Iceland Gull Gray-cheeked Thrush Brown-headed Cowbird Dovekie
Spruce Grouse Lesser Black-backed Gull Swainson's Thrush Orchard Oriole Long-billed Murrelet
Sharp-tailed Grouse Glaucous Gull Hermit Thrush Baltimore Oriole Ancient Murrelet
Greater Prairie-Chicken Great Black-backed Gull Wood Thrush Pine Grosbeak Band-tailed Pigeon
Wild Turkey Caspian Tern American Robin Purple Finch Common Ground-Dove
Red-throated Loon Black Tern Varied Thrush House Finch Inca Dove
Pacific Loon Common Tern Gray Catbird Red Crossbill Groove-billed Ani
Common Loon Forster's Tern Northern Mockingbird White-winged Crossbill Barn Owl
Pied-billed Grebe Parasitic Jaeger Brown Thrasher Common Redpoll Common Poorwill
Horned Grebe Rock Pigeon European Starling Hoary Redpoll Chuck-will's-widow
Red-necked Grebe Eurasian Collared-Dove American Pipit Pine Siskin White-throated Swift
Eared Grebe Mourning Dove Bohemian Waxwing American Goldfinch Green Violetear
Western Grebe Yellow-billed Cuckoo Cedar Waxwing Evening Grosbeak Magnificent Hummingbird
Clark's Grebe Black-billed Cuckoo Blue-winged Warbler House Sparrow Anna's Hummingbird
American White Pelican Eastern Screech-Owl Golden-winged Warbler -- Casual Species -- Costa's Hummingbird
Double-crested Cormorant Great Horned Owl Tennessee Warbler Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Calliope Hummingbird
American Bittern Snowy Owl Orange-crowned Warbler Brant Rufous Hummingbird
Least Bittern Northern Hawk Owl Nashville Warbler Eurasian Wigeon Lewis's Woodpecker
Great Blue Heron Barred Owl Northern Parula King Eider Williamson's Sapsucker
Great Egret Great Gray Owl Yellow Warbler Barrow's Goldeneye Western Wood-Pewee
Snowy Egret Long-eared Owl Chestnut-sided Warbler Neotropic Cormorant Vermilion Flycatcher
Little Blue Heron Short-eared Owl Magnolia Warbler Tricolored Heron Ash-throated Flycatcher
Cattle Egret Boreal Owl Cape May Warbler Black Vulture Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Green Heron Northern Saw-whet Owl Black-throated Blue Warbler Swallow-tailed Kite Clark's Nutcracker
Black-crowned Night-Heron Common Nighthawk Yellow-rumped Warbler Mississippi Kite Violet-green Swallow
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Whip-poor-will Black-throated Green Warbler Ferruginous Hawk Pygmy Nuthatch
White-faced Ibis Chimney Swift Blackburnian Warbler Gyrfalcon Bewick's Wren
Turkey Vulture Ruby-throated Hummingbird Pine Warbler Snowy Plover American Dipper
Osprey Belted Kingfisher Palm Warbler Black-necked Stilt Northern Wheatear
Bald Eagle Red-headed Woodpecker Bay-breasted Warbler Long-billed Curlew Fieldfare
Northern Harrier Red-bellied Woodpecker Blackpoll Warbler Western Sandpiper Curve-billed Thrasher
Sharp-shinned Hawk Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Cerulean Warbler Ruff Black-throated Gray Warbler
Cooper's Hawk Downy Woodpecker Black-and-white Warbler Red Phalarope Townsend's Warbler
Northern Goshawk Hairy Woodpecker American Redstart Black-legged Kittiwake Hermit Warbler
Red-shouldered Hawk American Three-toed Woodpecker Prothonotary Warbler Sabine's Gull Kirtland's Warbler
Broad-winged Hawk Black-backed Woodpecker Ovenbird Black-headed Gull MacGillivray's Warbler
Swainson's Hawk Northern Flicker Northern Waterthrush California Gull Painted Redstart
Red-tailed Hawk Pileated Woodpecker Louisiana Waterthrush Least Tern Green-tailed Towhee
Rough-legged Hawk Olive-sided Flycatcher Kentucky Warbler Arctic Tern Brewer's Sparrow
Golden Eagle Eastern Wood-Pewee Connecticut Warbler Pomarine Jaeger Baird's Sparrow
American Kestrel Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Mourning Warbler White-winged Dove Golden-crowned Sparrow
Merlin Acadian Flycatcher Common Yellowthroat Burrowing Owl McCown's Longspur
Peregrine Falcon Alder Flycatcher Hooded Warbler Say's Phoebe Bullock's Oriole
Prairie Falcon Willow Flycatcher Wilson's Warbler Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Scott's Oriole
Yellow Rail Least Flycatcher Canada Warbler Rock Wren Brambling
Virginia Rail Eastern Phoebe Yellow-breasted Chat Sage Thrasher Cassin's Finch
Sora Great Crested Flycatcher Spotted Towhee Sprague's Pipit -- Extripated Species --
Common Moorhen Western Kingbird Eastern Towhee Yellow-throated Warbler Northern Bobwhite
American Coot Eastern Kingbird American Tree Sparrow Prairie Warbler Eskimo Curlew
Sandhill Crane Loggerhead Shrike Chipping Sparrow Worm-eating Warbler -- Extinct Species --
Black-bellied Plover Northern Shrike Clay-colored Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Passenger Pigeon
 
* Updated with name changes and order changes from AOU version 50