Species I still have not observed in Itasca County

 

The following is a list of Minnesota regular species on the official Itasca list that I have not yet observed in Itasca County.  If you find any of these species, or a species you believe to be out of range / accidental / rare please consider contacting me (replace 'AT' with @) to share the sighting.  Thanks!   

 

• Greater White-fronted Goose
• Snow Goose
• Mute Swan
• American Wigeon
• Canvasback
• Greater Scaup
• Harlequin Duck
• Surf Scoter
• White-winged Scoter
• Black Scoter
• Long-tailed Duck
• Spruce Grouse
• Red-throated Loon
• Pacific Loon
• Eared Grebe
• Least Bittern
• Cattle Egret
• Black-crowned Night-heron
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Ferruginous Hawk
• Golden Eagle
• Yellow Rail
• Common Moorhen
• Black-bellied Plover
• Semipalmated Plover
• Upland Sandpiper
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Least Sandpiper
• Baird’s Sandpiper
• Pectoral Sandpiper
• Dunlin
• Stilt Sandpiper
• Buff-breasted Sandpiper
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Little Gull
• Forster’s Tern
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Eastern Screech-owl
• Long-eared Owl
• Boreal Owl
• Western Kingbird
• Blue-headed Vireo
• Carolina Wren
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Northern Mockingbird
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Connecticut Warbler
• Eastern Towhee
• Field Sparrow
• Grasshopper Sparrow
• Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
• Lapland Longspur
• Dickcissel
• Western Meadowlark
• Orchard Oriole