SSP

STW

SWe

SWi

TEB

TFB

TGu

TPB

TPW

WCM

WEN

WMS

WW

m.ob.

Shane S. Patterson

Sylvia T. Winkelman

Steve Weston

Susan Wiste

Tom & Elizabeth Bell

Tom F. Boevers

Tom Guttormsson

Terry P. Brashear

Terry P. Wiens

William C. Marengo

Warren E. Nelson

William M. Stauffer

Warren Woessner

many observers

Abbreviations

C.P. County Park

D.N.R. Department of Natural Resources

M.C.B.S.Minnesota County Biological

Survey

N.R.R.I. Natural Resources Research

Institute

N.W.R. National Wildlife Refuge

P.R. Park Reserve

R.P. Regional Park

S.N.A. Scientific and Natural Area

S.P. State Park

W.M.A. Wildlife Management Area

Proceedings of the Minnesota

Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee

Kim R. Eckert

As has been the practice of this

Committee every five years, a new

Checklist of the Birds of Minnesota

was compiled and published in January

2004. There are now 427 Accepted spe-

cies, with a net increase of four species

since the previous Checklist in 1999: the

additions are Smew, Black Vulture, White-

tailed Kite, White-throated Swift, and

Costa’s Hummingbird (see record #2003-

80 below); deleted is Black Phoebe (see

record #2003-42 below). In addition, the

status of several species has changed in

the past five years:

Additions to the Regular list

Eurasian Collared-Dove (formerly Ac-

cidental)

Great-tailed Grackle (formerly Acciden-

tal)

Deletions from the Regular list

Cinnamon Teal (now Casual)

Northern Bobwhite (now considered

Extirpated: i.e., all current records

are presumed to be of escaped or

released individuals, unless there is

documentation with a record to sug-

gest wild origin)

Gyrfalcon (now Casual)

Worm-eating Warbler (now Casual)

Additions to the Casual list

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (formerly

Accidental)

Cinnamon Teal (formerly Regular)

Gyrfalcon (formerly Regular)

Pomarine Jaeger (formerly Accidental)

Black-headed Gull (formerly Acciden-

tal)

Arctic Tern (formerly Accidental)

Band-tailed Pigeon (formerly Acciden-

tal)

Sage Thrasher (formerly Accidental)

Worm-eating Warbler (formerly Regu-

lar)

Spring 2004

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