The following 136 species from the Minnesota list all require documentation before an observation can be admitted into the Minnesota permanent record. Casual Species: recorded in fewer than nine of the past ten years but in more than two (41 species) | ||
Brant Eurasian Wigeon King Eider Rufous Hummingbird Black-necked Stilt Red Knot Ruff Purple Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Black-legged Kittiwake Laughing Gull California Gull | Slaty-backed Gull Least Tern Arctic Tern Brown Pelican Glossy Ibis Black Vulture Mississippi Kite Barn Owl Burrowing Owl Lewis's Woodpecker Gyrfalcon Scissor-tailed Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Clark's Nutcracker | Mountain Bluebird Eurasian Tree Sparrow Sprague's Pipit Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Lark Bunting Golden-crowned Sparrow Worm-eating Warbler Kentucky Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Painted Bunting |
Accidental Species: recorded in fewer than three of the past ten years (95 species) | ||
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck Garganey Mottled Duck Tufted Duck Common Eider Smew Willow Ptarmigan Rock Ptarmigan Band-tailed Pigeon Inca Dove Common Ground Dove Groove-billed Ani Common Poorwill Chuck-will's-widow White-throated Swift Mexican Violetear Rivoli's Hummingbird Anna's Hummingbird Costa's Hummingbird Calliope Hummingbird Broad-billed Hummingbird King Rail Purple Gallinule Black Rail Limpkin Whooping Crane Wilson's Plover Snowy Plover Long-billed Curlew Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper | Long-tailed Jaeger Dovekie Black Guillemot Long-billed Murrelet Ancient Murrelet Ivory Gull Black-headed Gull Ross's Gull Short-billed Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Gull-billed Tern Sandwich Tern Elegant Tern Yellow-billed Loon Northern Fulmar Wood Stork Magnificent Frigatebird Brown Booby Neotropic Cormorant Tricolored Heron White Ibis Roseate Spoonbill White-tailed Kite Swallow-tailed Kite Ferruginous Hawk Acorn Woodpecker Williamson's Sapsucker Crested Caracara Ash-throated Flycatcher Tropical Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Western Wood-Pewee Vermilion Flycatcher Violet-green Swallow Phainopepla Pygmy Nuthatch Rock Wren Bewick's Wren Curve-billed Thrasher Sage Thrasher American Dipper Fieldfare Northern Wheatear Brambling Cassin's Finch Lesser Goldfinch Thick-billed Longspur Cassin's Sparrow Black-throated Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Baird's Sparrow Abert's Towhee Green-tailed Towhee Bullock's Oriole Scott's Oriole Swainson's Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Kirtland's Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler Painted Redstart |