page_title: List of birds of Minnesota
section_title: Crows, jays, and magpies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Minnesota / Crows, jays, and magpies
caption_attribution_description: English: Black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia )
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: Corvidae
  The family Corvidae includes crows, ravens, jays, choughs, magpies, treepies, nutcrackers, and ground jays. Corvids are above average in size among the Passeriformes, and some of the larger species show high levels of intelligence.
  Canada jay, Perisoreus canadensis
  Blue jay, Cyanocitta cristata
  Clark's nutcracker, Nucifraga columbiana (C)
  Black-billed magpie, Pica hudsonia
  American crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos
  Common raven, Corvus corax
caption: Black-billed magpie
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