page_title: List of birds of Minnesota
section_title: Thrushes and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Minnesota / Thrushes and allies
caption_attribution_description: English: Eastern Bluebird
context_page_description: This list of birds of Minnesota includes species documented in the U.S. state of Minnesota and accepted by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Records Committee. As of the end of 2019, there are 444 species included in the official list. Of them, 87 are classed as accidental, 41 are classed as casual, eight have been introduced to North America, two are extinct, and one has been extirpated.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  Unless otherwise noted, all species listed below are considered to occur regularly in Minnesota as permanent residents, summer or winter visitors, or migrants. The following codes are used to define some categories of occurrence:
  Accidental - "Species for which there are accepted records in no more than two of the past ten years" per the MOURC
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Turdidae
  The thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World. They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium-sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs.
  Eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis
  Mountain bluebird, Sialia currucoides
  Townsend's solitaire, Myadestes townsendi (C)
  Veery, Catharus fuscescens
  Gray-cheeked thrush, Catharus minimus
  Swainson's thrush, Catharus ustulatus
  Hermit thrush, Catharus guttatus
  Wood thrush, Hylocichla mustelina
  Fieldfare, Turdus pilaris (A)
  American robin, Turdus migratorius
  Varied thrush, Ixoreus naevius
caption: Eastern bluebird
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