Neotropic Cormorant(Nannopterum brasilianum) |
Year | Season | N | S | |
1992 | Summer | | | First state record discovered on 7/16 at L. Vadnais, Ramsey Co. KB (The Loon 64:176–178). |
1992 | Fall | | | First state record (see Summer Season). Reported through 8/4 Ramsey fide RJ (The Loon 64:176–178). |
2003 | Fall | | | Second state record 8/12+ Lac qui Parle (2 adults at Big Stone N.W.R.) †KJB, m.obs. (The Loon 76:46). The same observer found the state's first in July 1992! Photographed by DAC, JPM, and others, with written documentation 8/13, 8/23 (†PCC), 8/16 (†PHS), and on six dates through 10/6 (†BJU). |
2004 | Fall | | | Third state record 8/15 Big Stone (adult in Otrey Township) †PHS, †PCC, ph. KRE, m.ob. Location is less than ten miles from Big Stone N.W.R., where two adults were found 12 August 2003 (The Loon 76:46). |
2007 | Spring | | 1 | Fourth state record 5/9–18 Hennepin (Diamond L., Richfield) †PEB, ph. TPB, †CMB, ph. †JPM, ph. †PHS, m.ob. (The Loon 79:237–238) |
2012 | Spring | | 1 | Fifth state record 3/30–31 Murray (Current Lake) ph. †CRM. |
2019 | Summer | | 1 | Â Observed 7/27–31+ Hennepin (Richfield Lake) ph. † BAF, † PRH, † EzH, ph. † DWK, ph. † CRM, ph. DnS. |
2019 | Fall | | 1 | Continuing adult from the summer season was observed 8/1–18 Hennepin (Richfield Lake Park) BAF, m.ob. |
2020 | Summer | | 2 | One found 6/3 Hennepin (Richfield Lake Park) †BAF, ph. †CMB, ph. BAb, m.ob., was joined by a second bird 7/19 †SLC; both were seen and photographed through at least 8/21 m.ob. New county record 6/4 Sherburne (Sherburne N.W.R.) ph. †ToL. |
2020 | Fall | | 1 | Continuing adults from the summer season were observed 8/1 – 10/20 Hennepin (max. 2, Richfield Lake Park, the last date that both birds were seen was 8/21) ph. †BAF, ph. †PEB, m.ob. |
2021 | Spring | | 1 | A likely returning bird from the past two years was found 4/24 – 5/28 Hennepin (Richfield Lake Park) †BAF, ph. FFa, m.ob., but also see summer report. |
2021 | Summer | | 1 | An adult continuing from spring season was joined by a second bird 6/11 Hennepin (Richfield L.) SLC, ph. †DWK, ph. †PEB, ph. CMB, m.ob. Both remained well into the fall season and were photographed by m.ob. |
2021 | Fall | | 2 | Continuing adults from the summer season were observed 8/2 – 10/1 Hennepin (max. 2, Richfield Lake Park; last date that both birds were observed was 9/21) BAF, m.ob.; what was possibly one of the same birds was also found 8/10–11 Dakota (Augusta Lake) ph. †DWK, ph. †BAb, m.ob. |
2022 | Summer | | 1 | Seen 6/8 – 7/31+ Hennepin (Richfield Lake) †BAF, ph. †CMB, RBW, m.ob. This is the fourth consecutive year that at least one individual of this species has been found at this location. |
2022 | Fall | | 2 | All south 8/1 – 9/3 Hennepin (continuing adult from the summer season, Richfield Lake Park & Wood Lake N.C.) BAF, ph. †CMB, ph. †PEB, m.ob., 9/4–7 Meeker ph. †AXH. |
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  | Fifteen records: two spring, one spring-fall, one summer, six summer-fall, and five fall. Recorded in five of the last ten years, most recently 2023. Formerly Accidental. |