Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch(Leucosticte tephrocotis) |
Year | Season | N | S | |
1967 | Winter | | | first seen on 2-2, remained throughout February, Bagley, Clearwater Co. 1 at feeder, photographed by Richard C. Davids. Second Minnesota record. |
1999 | Winter | | | One at feeder 2/17–18, 2/24–25 & 2/27 Wilkin (Connelly Twp.) MTB (The Loon 72:176–177). |
2000 | Winter | | | Interior form reported 1/13 – 2/4 St. Louis (Port Terminal in Duluth) CHo, JWH, mob. |
2004 | Winter | | | Interior form at rural residence near Hinckley 12/30 – early March in Pine ph. AXH, ph. †PHS (The Loon 77:182–183). (Note: access restricted by homeowner). Twelfth state record and third in last five years. |
2005 | Spring | | | One in Pine (please see winter report) lingered at a feeder near Hinckley through early March (The Loon 77:182–183). |
2006 | Fall | | | Second earliest arrival in the state and 13th record overall; three individuals of the “interior” form overwintered 11/27+ Carlton (near Cloquet) ph. MSc. All three were seen and photographed by m.ob. through 3/26; written documentation furnished by †MLH, †JLO, †PHS. |
2006 | Winter | 1 | | Three of the “interior form” overwintered 11/27–3/26 Carlton (near Cloquet) ph. MSc, ph. LME, †MLH, †JLO, ph. MSS, †PHS, m.ob. Also found 12/8 Wadena †RBW. [Corrected] |
2007 | Spring | 1 | | Three “interior form” were last reported 3/26 Carlton fide JWL |
2009 | Winter | 1 | | One (interior form) photographed at feeder 12/17 Aitkin (Raspberry Is., Big Sandy Lake) ph. JaH. This was the sixteenth state record, and seventh in the last decade. |
2011 | Fall | 1 | | One “interior form” found 10/27 on the shores of Bear Island Lake in Babbitt, St. Louis County †SLF, ph. DBF (The Loon 84:100). |
2015 | Fall | 1 | | Second county record and third earliest fall arrival 11/14 Lake (Iona's Beach S.N.A.) ph. †TiW. |
2015 | Winter | 2 | | First winter reports since 2009. New county record: 12/3, 2/5 Cook (private property near Tofte) HHD, ph. RBW, m.ob. Also reported 1/26 St. Louis (“Hepburn's” subspecies, Birch Lake near Babbitt) ph. KHp. |
2020 | Winter | 1 | | First report since 2015 winter season: 1/11–18 Koochiching (Loman) ph. GVP, ph. †EzH, ph. †LBa, m.ob. An adult male of the interior, brown-cheeked form. |
2021 | Spring | | 1 | Only the fourth south record of this Casual visitor: 3/10 Le Sueur (interior form, Kasota) ph. PSh. |
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  | Twenty-one records: four spring, three fall, one fall-winter, ten winter, and three winter-spring. Recorded in three of the last ten years, most recently 2021. |