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Mississippi Flyway

Birding Festival - 2004

 
 

April 30 - May 2, 2004


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Mississippi Flyway Birding Festival Bird Checklist

The Upper Mississippi River is recognized as a Globally Important Bird Area and migratory "Flyway" for birds. About 40% of all North American waterfowl use the river as a migratory flyway, and 326 species of birds (35% or about 1/3 of all species in North America) use the river corridor as a flyway in their spring and fall migrations. The Mississippi Flyway Birding Festival takes place within the boundaries of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, which stretches southward for 261 miles along the Mississippi River from just above Wabasha, Minnesota, nearly to Rock Island, Illinois. This refuge and the entire Upper Mississippi River offer fabulous opportunities for birding among extensive marshlands, wooded bottom lands, open water, sand prairie, and wooded bluffs.

These 117 bird species were seen during the 2004 Festival

SWANS, GEESE, and DUCKS
    Greater White-fronted Goose
    Snow Goose
 X  Canada Goose
 X;  Trumpeter Swan
    Tundra Swan
 X  Wood Duck
 X  Gadwall
    American Wigeon
 X  American Black Duck
 X  Mallard
 X  Blue-winged Teal
 X  Northern Shoveler
    Northern Pintail
    Green-winged Teal
    Canvasback
    Redhead
    Ring-necked Duck
    Greater Scaup
    Lesser Scaup
    Bufflehead
    Common Goldeneye
 X  Hooded Merganser
    Common Merganser
    Red-breasted Merganser
    Ruddy Duck

GROUSE, and TURKEYS
    Ring-necked Pheasant
    Ruffed Grouse
 X  Wild Turkey

QUAIL
    Northern Bobwhite

LOONS
    Common Loon

GREBES
 X  Pied-billed Grebe
    Horned Grebe
    Red-necked Grebe
    Eared Grebe
 X  Western Grebe

PELICANS
 X  American White Pelican

CORMORANTS
 X  Double-crested Cormorant

BITTERNS and HERONS
    American Bittern
    Least Bittern
 X  Great Blue Heron
 X  Great Egret
    Snowy Egret
    Little Blue Heron
    Cattle Egret
 X  Green Heron
    Black-crowned Night-Heron
    Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

AMERICAN VULTURES
 X  Turkey Vulture

HAWKS, EAGLES, and ALLIES
    Osprey
 X  Bald Eagle

 X  Northern Harrier
    Sharp-shinned Hawk
 X  Cooper's Hawk
    Northern Goshawk
 X  Red-shouldered Hawk
 X  Broad-winged Hawk
 X  Red-tailed Hawk
    Rough-legged Hawk
    Golden Eagle

FALCONS
 X  American Kestrel
    Merlin
    Peregrine Falcon

RAILS, GALLINULES, and COOTS
 X  Virginia Rail
 X  Sora
    Common Moorhen
 X  American Coot

CRANES
 X  Sandhill Crane

PLOVERS and LAPWINGS
    Black-bellied Plover
    American Golden-Plover
     Snowy Plover
    Semipalmated Plover
    Piping Plover
 X   Killdeer

STILTS and AVOCETS
    Black-necked Stilt
    American Avocet

SANDPIPERS and PHALAROPES
 X  Greater Yellowlegs
 X  Lesser Yellowlegs
 X  Solitary Sandpiper
    Willet
 X  Spotted Sandpiper
    Upland Sandpiper
    Whimbrel
    Long-billed Curlew
    Hudsonian Godwit
    Marbled Godwit
    Ruddy Turnstone
    Sanderling
    Semipalmated Sandpiper
    Western Sandpiper
    Least Sandpiper
    White-rumped Sandpiper
    Baird's Sandpiper
    Pectoral Sandpiper
    Dunlin
    Curlew Sandpiper
    Stilt Sandpiper
    Buff-breasted Sandpiper
    Short-billed Dowitcher
    Long-billed Dowitcher
 X  Common Snipe
    American Woodcock
    Wilson's Phalarope
    Red-necked Phalarope

GULLS and TERNS
    Franklin's Gull
    Little Gull
    Black-headed Gull

    Bonaparte's Gull
 X  Ring-billed Gull
 X  Herring Gull
    Thayer's Gull
    Iceland Gull
    Lesser Black-backed Gull
    Glaucous Gull
    Great Black-backed Gull
    Black-legged Kittiwake
    Caspian Tern
    Royal Tern
    Common Tern
    Forster's Tern
    Black Tern

PIGEONS and DOVES
 X  Rock Pigeon
 X  Eurasian Collared-Dove
 X  Mourning Dove

CUCKOOS
    Black-billed Cuckoo
    Yellow-billed Cuckoo

BARN OWLS
    Barn Owl

TYPICAL OWLS
    Eastern Screech-Owl
 X  Great Horned Owl
 X  Barred Owl
    Long-eared Owl
    Short-eared Owl
    Northern Saw-whet Owl

GOATSUCKERS
    Common Nighthawk
    Whip-poor-will

SWIFTS
 X  Chimney Swift

HUMMINGBIRDS
 X  Ruby-throated Hummingbird

KINGFISHERS
 X  Belted Kingfisher

WOODPECKERS and ALLIES
 X  Red-headed Woodpecker
 X  Red-bellied Woodpecker
 X  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
 X  Downy Woodpecker
 X  Hairy Woodpecker
 X  Northern Flicker
 X  Pileated Woodpecker

TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
    Olive-sided Flycatcher
    Eastern Wood-Pewee
    Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
    Acadian Flycatcher
    Alder Flycatcher
    Willow Flycatcher
    Least Flycatcher
 X  Eastern Phoebe
    Great Crested Flycatcher
    Eastern Kingbird
    Scissor-tailed Flycatcher


SHRIKES
    Loggerhead Shrike
    Northern Shrike

VIREOS
    White-eyed Vireo
    Bell's Vireo
 X  Yellow-throated Vireo
    Blue-headed Vireo
    Warbling Vireo
    Philadelphia Vireo
    Red-eyed Vireo

JAYS and CROWS
 X  Blue Jay
 X  American Crow
    Common Raven

LARKS
    Horned Lark

SWALLOWS
    Purple Martin
 X  Tree Swallow
 X  No. Rough-winged Swallow
    Bank Swallow
 X  Cliff Swallow
 X  Barn Swallow

TITMICE and CHICKADEES
 X  Black-capped Chickadee
 X  Tufted Titmouse

NUTHATCHES
    Red-breasted Nuthatch
 X  White-breasted Nuthatch

CREEPERS
    Brown Creeper

WRENS
    Carolina Wren
    Bewick's Wren
 X  House Wren
    Winter Wren
 X  Sedge Wren
 X  Marsh Wren

KINGLETS
 X  Golden-crowned Kinglet
 X  Ruby-crowned Kinglet

GNATCATCHERS
 X  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

THRUSHES
 X  Eastern Bluebird
    Townsend's Solitaire
    Veery
    Gray-cheeked Thrush
    Swainson's Thrush
 X  Hermit Thrush
 X  Wood Thrush
 X  American Robin

MOCKINGBIRDS and ALLIES
 X  Gray Catbird
    Northern Mockingbird
 X  Brown Thrasher

STARLINGS and ALLIES
 X  European Starling

WAGTAILS and PIPITS
    American Pipit

WAXWINGS
    Bohemian Waxwing
    Cedar Waxwing

WOOD-WARBLERS
 X  Blue-winged Warbler
 X  Golden-winged Warbler
 X  Tennessee Warbler
 X  Orange-crowned Warbler
 X  Nashville Warbler
    Northern Parula
 X  Yellow Warbler
    Chestnut-sided Warbler
    Magnolia Warbler
    Cape May Warbler
    Black-throated Blue Warbler
 X  Yellow-rumped Warbler
 X  Black-throated Green Warbler
    Blackburnian Warbler
    Yellow-throated Warbler
 X  Pine Warbler
    Prairie Warbler
 X  Palm Warbler
    Bay-breasted Warbler
    Blackpoll Warbler
 X  Cerulean Warbler
 X  Black-and-white Warbler
    American Redstart
 X  Prothonotary Warbler
    Worm-eating Warbler
    Ovenbird
 X  Northern Waterthrush
 X  Louisiana Waterthrush
    Kentucky Warbler
    Connecticut Warbler
    Mourning Warbler
    Common Yellowthroat
    Hooded Warbler
 X  Wilson's Warbler
    Canada Warbler
    Yellow-breasted Chat

TANAGERS
    Summer Tanager
    Scarlet Tanager

NEW WORLD SPARROWS and ALLIES
 X  Eastern Towhee
 X  American Tree Sparrow
 X  Chipping Sparrow
    Clay-colored Sparrow
 X  Field Sparrow
    Vesper Sparrow
    Lark Sparrow
    Savannah Sparrow
 X  Grasshopper Sparrow
 X  Henslow's Sparrow
    Le Conte's Sparrow
    Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
    Fox Sparrow
 X  Song Sparrow
 X  Lincoln's Sparrow
 X  Swamp Sparrow
 X  White-throated Sparrow
    Harris's Sparrow
 X  White-crowned Sparrow
 X  Dark-eyed Junco
    Lapland Longspur

CARDINALS, BUNTINGS, and GROSBEAKS
 X  Northern Cardinal
 X  Rose-breasted Grosbeak
    Blue Grosbeak
    Indigo Bunting
    Dickcissel

BLACKBIRDS and ORIOLES
    Bobolink
 X  Red-winged Blackbird
 X  Eastern Meadowlark
    Western Meadowlark
 X  Yellow-headed Blackbird
 X  Rusty Blackbird
    Brewer's Blackbird
 X  Common Grackle
 X  Brown-headed Cowbird
    Orchard Oriole
    Bullock's Oriole
 X  Baltimore Oriole

FINCHES
    Pine Grosbeak
    Purple Finch
 X  House Finch
    Red Crossbill
    White-winged Crossbill
    Common Redpoll
    Pine Siskin
 X  American Goldfinch
    Evening Grosbeak

OLD WORLD SPARROWS
 X  House Sparrow

 

Photo by A.B. Sheldon

 

 

 



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