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Mississippi Flyway

Birding Festival - 2006

May 19 - 21, 2006

Pre-registrations must be received by May 12th, 2006

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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.

Many of these bird species will be seen during the Festival


The highlighted 142 species were seen during the 2005 Festival.
Help us find more this Year!

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

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

QUAIL
    Northern Bobwhite

LOONS
    Common Loon

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

PELICANS
    American White Pelican

CORMORANTS
    Double-crested Cormorant

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

AMERICAN VULTURES
    Turkey Vulture

HAWKS, EAGLES, and ALLIES
    Osprey
    Bald Eagle

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

FALCONS
    American Kestrel
    Merlin
    Peregrine Falcon

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

CRANES
    Sandhill Crane

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

STILTS and AVOCETS
    Black-necked Stilt
    American Avocet

SANDPIPERS and PHALAROPES
    Greater Yellowlegs
    Lesser Yellowlegs
    Solitary Sandpiper
    Willet
    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
    Common Snipe
    American Woodcock
    Wilson's Phalarope
    Red-necked Phalarope

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

    Bonaparte's Gull
    Ring-billed Gull
    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
    Rock Pigeon
    Eurasian Collared-Dove
    Mourning Dove

CUCKOOS
    Black-billed Cuckoo
    Yellow-billed Cuckoo

BARN OWLS
    Barn Owl

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

GOATSUCKERS
    Common Nighthawk
    Whip-poor-will

SWIFTS
    Chimney Swift

HUMMINGBIRDS
    Ruby-throated Hummingbird

KINGFISHERS
    Belted Kingfisher

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

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


SHRIKES
    Loggerhead Shrike
    Northern Shrike

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

JAYS and CROWS
    Blue Jay
    American Crow
    Common Raven

LARKS
    Horned Lark

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

TITMICE and CHICKADEES
    Black-capped Chickadee
    Tufted Titmouse

NUTHATCHES
    Red-breasted Nuthatch
    White-breasted Nuthatch

CREEPERS
    Brown Creeper

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

KINGLETS
    Golden-crowned Kinglet
    Ruby-crowned Kinglet

GNATCATCHERS
    Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

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

MOCKINGBIRDS and ALLIES
    Gray Catbird
    Northern Mockingbird
    Brown Thrasher

STARLINGS and ALLIES
    European Starling

WAGTAILS and PIPITS
    American Pipit

WAXWINGS
    Bohemian Waxwing
    Cedar Waxwing

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

TANAGERS
    Summer Tanager
    Scarlet Tanager

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

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

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

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

OLD WORLD SPARROWS
    House Sparrow

 

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of the Scarlet Tanager to reach
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