2011 Bird List

2011 total: 137 (includes California birds)
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Anseriforms: Swans, geese, ducks
  • Cackling Goose
  • Canada Goose
  • Greylag Goose (CA 3/25)
  • Greater White-fronted Goose 3/19
  • Trumpeter Swan
  • Tundra Swan
  • Wood Duck
  • American Wigeon 4/3 (CA 3/25)
  • Gadwall 3/19/2011
  • Mallard
  • Green-winged Teal 4/3 (CA 3/25)
  • Cinnamon Teal  (CA 3/27)
  • Blue-winged Teal 4/9
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Canvasback (CA 3/29)
  • Redhead 3/19
  • Ring-necked Duck 3/19
  • Greater Scaup (CA 3/25)
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Surf Scoter (CA 3/25)
  • Common Goldeneye 1/30 Hastings (CA 3/27)
  • Bufflehead
  • Red-breasted Merganser 4/25
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Common Merganser 1/30 Hastings (CA 3/27)
  • Ruddy Duck (CA 3/25)
Galliforms: Grouse, Ptarmigan
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Wild Turkey
Gaviiformes: Loons
  • Common Loon 4/3
  • Red-throated Loon (CA 3/27)
Podicipediformes: Grebes
  • Pied-billed Grebe 4/3
  • Horned Grebe (CA 3/25)
  • Eared Grebe (CA 3/25)
  • Western Grebe (CA 3/25)
  • Clark's Grebe (CA 3/25)
Pelecaniformes: Pelicans; Cormorants
  • American White Pelican 4/3
  • Double-crested Cormorant 4/3 (CA 3/25)
Ciconiiformes: Herons; American Vultures
  • Great Blue Heron 3/19
  • Great Egret 4/3 (CA 3/27)
  • Snowy Egret (CA 3/25)
  • Green Heron (CA 3/27)
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron (CA 3/27)
  • Turkey Vulture 4/3 (CA 3/25)
Falconiformes: Hawks and Eagles; Falcons
  • White-tailed Kite  (CA Aug.)
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Northern Harrier (CA 3/27)
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • Golden Eagle (CA Aug.)
  • Bald Eagle 
  • American Kestrel 4/9
Gruiformes: Rails and Coots; Cranes
  • American Coot
  • Whooping Crane (9/9)
  • Sandhill Crane (CA 9/6; Sherburne NWR 11/6)
Charadriiformes: Plovers; Sandpipers; Gulls and Terns
  • Black-bellied Plover (CA 3/25)
  • Killdeer 3/19
  • Black Oystercatcher (CA 3/25)
  • American Avocet (CA 3/25) 
  • Black-necked Stilt (CA 3/25) 
  • Willet (CA 3/25)
  • Greater Yellowlegs (CA 3/28)
  • Marbled Godwit (CA 3/25)
  • Black Turnstone (CA 3/25) 
  • Western Sandpiper (CA 3/25)
  • Least Sandpiper (CA 3/25) 
  • Spotted Sandpiper 4/25
  • Solitary Sandpiper 5/1 Yard bird!
  • Dunlin (CA 3/25)  
  • Pectoral Sandpiper (CA 3/25)
  • Ring-billed Gull (CA 3/25)
  • California Gull (CA 3/25)
  • Herring Gull (CA 3/25)
  • Western Gull  (CA 3/25)
  • Forster's Tern  5/5 along the Cannon River in central Northfield (CA 3/27)
Columbiformes: Pigeons and Doves
  • Rock Pigeon
  • Mourning Dove
Cuculiformes: Cuckoos and Anis Strigiformes: True Owls Caprimulgiformes: Nighthawks
  • Common Nighthawk 5/10?
 Apodiformes: Swifts; Hummingbirds
  • Chimney Swift 4/26
  • Anna's Hummingbird (CA 3/23)
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5/7?
  Coraciiformes: Kingfishers
  • Belted Kingfisher 4/3
 Piciformes: Woodpeckers
  • Red-headed Woodpecker
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker (CA 3/27)
  • Pileated Woodpecker 5/25 approx.; heard earlier
Passeriformes: Tyrant flycatchers; Shrikes; Vireos; Jays and Crows; Larks; Swallows; Titmice and Chickadees; Nuthatches; Creepers; Wrens; Kinglets; Gnatcatchers; Thrushes; Mimic Thrushes; Starlings; Pipits; Waxwings; Warblers; Tanagers; Sparrows; Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings and Dickcissel; Blackbirds, Grackles and Orioles; Finches; Old world sparrows
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee 5/15
  • Black Phoebe (CA 3/27)
  • Eastern Phoebe 4/3
  • Great-crested Flycatcher 5/15
  • Eastern Kingbird 5/26
  • Northern Shrike
  • Blue Jay
  • American Crow
  • Common Raven (CA 3/27)
  • Horned Lark
  • Tree Swallow 4/3 (CA 3/27)
  • Violet-green Swallow (CA 3/27)
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow (CA 3/27)
  • Cliff Swallow 5/26
  • Barn Swallow 5/5 (CA 3/27)
  • Cliff Swallow (CA 3/27)
  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Red-breasted Nuthatch
  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Bewick's Wren (CA 3/27)
  • Eastern Bluebird 4/?
  • Swainson's Thrush 5/14
  • Hermit Thrush 5/15
  • American Robin 3/18
  • Northern Mockingbird (CA 3/25)
  • Brown Thrasher 4/20 approx.
  • European Starling
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Tennesssee Warbler 5/15 
  • Orange-crowned Warbler 5/15 (CA 3/27)
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler 5/15
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler (CA 3/27) 4/24
  • Black-and-white Warbler 5/7
  • Blackburnian Warbler 5/15
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler (CA 3/27)
  • Bay-breasted Warbler 5/15 
  • Blackpoll Warbler 5/15
  • Yellow Warbler 5/15
  • Northern Waterthrush 5/7
  • Common Yellowthroat 5/15
  • American Redstart 5/15
  • Scarlet Tanager 5/15
  • California Towhee (CA 3/23) 
  • American Tree Sparrow
  • Chipping Sparrow 4/24? (CA 3/27)
  • Clay-colored Sparrow 5/26
  • Field Sparrow 5/30
  • Vesper Sparrow 5/30 
  • Song Sparrow 4/3 (CA 3/25)
  • White-crowned Sparrow 4/30 (CA 3/25)
  • Golden-crowned Sparrow (CA 3/25)
  • White-throated Sparrow 4/30 (CA 3/23)
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • Snow Bunting
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak 5/7 yard bird!
  • Indigo Bunting 5/13
  • Bobolink 5/26
  • Eastern Meadowlark 3/31
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Common Grackle 4/3
  • Brown-headed Cowbird (CA 3/25)
  • Purple Finch 5/1 female at feeder
  • House Finch
  • Pine Siskin
  • American Goldfinch
  • House Sparrow