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) | ||
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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) | ||
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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 |