Checklist of the Birds of Minnesota
2020

Name:Regular (313 species)
Snow Goose
Ross’s Goose
Greater White-fronted Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
GadwallAmerican Wigeon
Mallard
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
RedheadRing-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf ScoterWhite-winged ScoterBlack ScoterLong-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Barrow’s Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Gray PartridgeRing-necked PheasantRuffed Grouse
Spruce Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Black-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Yellow Rail
Virginia RailSora
Casual (41 species)
Brant
Eurasian Wigeon
King Eider
Rufous Hummingbird
Black-necked Stilt
Red KnotRuffPurple 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

Total:

Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover
Killdeer
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Upland Sandpiper
WhimbrelHudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Stilt Sandpiper
Sanderling
DunlinBaird’s Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
American Woodcock
Wilson’s Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
WilletGreater Yellowlegs
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Parasitic Jaeger
Sabine’s Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Little Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Caspian Tern
Black Tern
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Double-crested CormorantAmerican White Pelican
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Great Blue HeronGreat Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-HeronWhite-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
OspreyGolden Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Snowy Owl
Northern Hawk Owl
Barred Owl
Great Gray Owl
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Boreal Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied WoodpeckerYellow-bellied Sapsucker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
American Kestrel
MerlinPeregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Great Crested Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Shrike
Bell’s Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Canada Jay
Blue Jay
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow

Common Raven
Horned Lark
Bank Swallow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Townsend’s Solitaire
Veery
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Swainson’s Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
American Pipit
Evening Grosbeak
Pine Grosbeak
House Finch
Purple Finch
Common Redpoll
Hoary Redpoll
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
Lapland Longspur
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Smith’s Longspur
Snow Bunting
Grasshopper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
Harris’s Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Leconte’s Sparrow
Nelson’s Sparrow
Henslow’s Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
Eastern Towhee
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Rusty Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
American Redstart
Cape May Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow WarblerChestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Wilson’s Warbler
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Dickcissel

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

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
Black RailKing RailPurple Gallinule
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
Mew GullGlaucous-winged Gull

Gull-billed Tern
Sandwich Tern
Elegant Tern
Yellow-billed Loon
Northern Fulmar
Wood Stork
Magnificent Frigatebird
Neotropic Cormorant
Tricolored HeronWhite 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
Pygmy Nuthatch
Rock Wren
Bewick’s Wren
American Dipper

Northern Wheatear
Fieldfare
Curve-billed Thrasher
Sage Thrasher
Brambling
Cassin’s Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
McCown’s Longspur
Cassin’s Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Brewer’s Sparrow
Baird’s Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
Bullock’s Oriole
Scott’s OrioleMacGillivray’s Warbler
Kirtland’s Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Painted Redstart

Accidental (89 species)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Garganey
Mottled Duck
Tufted Duck
Common Eider
Smew
Willow PtarmiganRock Ptarmigan
Band-tailed Pigeon
Inca Dove
Common Ground Dove

Extirpated (2 species)
Northern Bobwhite
Eskimo Curlew
Extinct (1 species)
Passenger Pigeon—AXH