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MOURC Review List

The following 120 species from the Minnesota list all require documentation before an observation can be admitted into the Minnesota permanent record.



Casual Species: seen fewer than nine times in the past ten years but more than twice (42 species)
 
   Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
   Brant
   Eurasian Wigeon
   King Eider
   Barrow's Goldeneye
   Neotropic Cormorant
   Tricolored Heron
   Black Vulture
   Swallow-tailed Kite
   Mississippi Kite
   Ferruginous Hawk
   Gyrfalcon
   Snowy Plover
   Black-necked Stilt
Long-billed Curlew
Western Sandpiper
Ruff
Red Phalarope
Black-legged Kittiwake
Sabine's Gull
Black-headed Gull
California Gull
Least Tern
Arctic Tern
Pomarine Jaeger
White-winged Dove
Burrowing Owl
Say's Phoebe
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Rock Wren
Sage Thrasher
Sprague's Pipit
Worm-eating Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Painted Bunting
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
Eurasian Tree Sparrow



Accidental Species: seen fewer than three times in the past ten years (78 species)
 
   Fulvous Whistling-Duck
   Garganey
   Common Eider
   Smew
   Willow Ptarmigan
   Rock Ptarmigan
   Yellow-billed Loon
   Wood Stork
   Magnificent Frigatebird
   Brown Pelican
   White Ibis
   Glossy Ibis
   White-tailed Kite
   Crested Caracara
   Black Rail
   King Rail
   Purple Gallinule
   Whooping Crane
   Wilson's Plover
   Purple Sandpiper
   Curlew Sandpiper
   Ivory Gull
   Ross's Gull
   Laughing Gull
   Mew Gull
   Slaty-backed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Sandwich Tern
Elegant Tern
Long-tailed Jaeger
Dovekie
Black Guillemot
Long-billed Murrelet
Ancient Murrelet
Band-tailed Pigeon
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Groove-billed Ani
Barn Owl
Common Poorwill
Chuck-will's-widow
White-throated Swift
Green Violetear
Magnificent Hummingbird
Anna's Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Lewis's Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Williamson's Sapsucker
Western Wood-Pewee
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Clark's Nutcracker
Violet-green Swallow
Pygmy Nuthatch
Bewick's Wren
American Dipper
Northern Wheatear
Fieldfare
Curve-billed Thrasher
McCown's Longspur
MacGillivray's Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Painted Redstart
Green-tailed Towhee
Brewer's Sparrow
Baird's Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Bullock's Oriole
Scott's Oriole
Brambling
Cassin's Finch