Birds of Minnesota
474 bird species have been recorded in Minnesota on the eBird network — explore the 473 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
474 bird species have been recorded in Minnesota on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 473 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.
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Birds to know first
Abert’s TowheeMelozone aberti
Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorus
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
American Barn OwlTyto furcata
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
American Black DuckAnas rubripes
American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
American CootFulica americana
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
American KestrelFalco sparverius
American PipitAnthus rubescens
American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
American RobinTurdus migratorius
American Three-toed WoodpeckerPicoides dorsalis
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arborea
American White IbisEudocimus albus
American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
American WigeonMareca americana
American WoodcockScolopax minor
American Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestiva
Ancient MurreletSynthliboramphus antiquus
Anna’s HummingbirdCalypte anna
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Ash-throated FlycatcherMyiarchus cinerascens
The full checklist — 473 birds of Minnesota in our library
- Abert’s Towhee
- Acadian Flycatcher
- Acorn Woodpecker
- African Collared Dove
- Alder Flycatcher
- American Avocet
- American Barn Owl
- American Bittern
- American Black Duck
- American Cliff Swallow
- American Coot
- American Crow
- American Golden Plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Goshawk
- American Herring Gull
- American Kestrel
- American Pipit
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Three-toed Woodpecker
- American Tree Sparrow
- American White Ibis
- American White Pelican
- American Wigeon
- American Woodcock
- American Yellow Warbler
- Ancient Murrelet
- Anna’s Hummingbird
- Arctic Tern
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Baird’s Sparrow
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-tailed Pigeon
- Bar-headed Goose
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Owl
- Barrow’s Goldeneye
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Bell’s Vireo
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Guillemot
- Black Phoebe
- Black Rail
- Black Scoter
- Black Swan
- Black Tern
- Black Vulture
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-billed Cuckoo
- Black-billed Magpie
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Black-throated Grey Warbler
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
- Blue-headed Vireo
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Bobolink
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Boreal Chickadee
- Boreal Owl
- Brambling
- Brant Goose
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brewer’s Sparrow
- Broad-billed Hummingbird
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown Booby
- Brown Creeper
- Brown Pelican
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Budgerigar
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Bufflehead
- Burrowing Owl
- Cackling Goose
- California Gull
- Calliope Hummingbird
- Canada Goose
- Canada Jay
- Canada Warbler
- Canvasback
- Cape May Warbler
- Carolina Wren
- Caspian Tern
- Cassin’s Finch
- Cassin’s Kingbird
- Cassin’s Sparrow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Cerulean Warbler
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chimney Swift
- Chipping Sparrow
- Chuck-will’s-widow
- Chukar Partridge
- Cinnamon Teal
- Clark’s Grebe
- Clark’s Nutcracker
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Cockatiel
- Common Eider
- Common Gallinule
- Common Goldeneye
- Common Grackle
- Common Ground Dove
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Pheasant
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Connecticut Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Crested Caracara
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Diamond Dove
- Dickcissel
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Downy Woodpecker
- Dunlin
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Screech Owl
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Warbling Vireo
- Eastern Whip-poor-will
- Eastern Wood Pewee
- Egyptian Goose
- Emu
- Eskimo Curlew
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Wigeon
- European Goldfinch
- Evening Grosbeak
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Field Sparrow
- Fieldfare
- Fork-tailed Flycatcher
- Forster’s Tern
- Franklin’s Gull
- Fulvous Whistling Duck
- Gadwall
- Garganey
- Glaucous Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden Eagle
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Grasshopper Sparrow
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Grey Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Greater Prairie Chicken
- Greater Scaup
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Green Heron
- Green Pheasant
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Grey Catbird
- Grey Partridge
- Grey Plover
- Grey-cheeked Thrush
- Grey-crowned Rosy Finch
- Greylag Goose
- Groove-billed Ani
- Gull-billed Tern
- Gyrfalcon
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Harlequin Duck
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Henslow’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- Hermit Warbler
- Hooded Merganser
- Hooded Warbler
- Horned Grebe
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Iceland Gull
- Inca Dove
- Indian Peafowl
- Indigo Bunting
- Ivory Gull
- Japanese Quail
- Kentucky Warbler
- Killdeer
- King Eider
- King Rail
- Kirtland’s Warbler
- Lapland Longspur
- Lark Bunting
- Lark Sparrow
- Laughing Gull
- Lazuli Bunting
- Least Bittern
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- Least Tern
- LeConte’s Sparrow
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Lesser Scaup
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- Limpkin
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Little Gull
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Long-billed Curlew
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Long-billed Murrelet
- Long-eared Owl
- Long-tailed Duck
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Magnolia Warbler
- Magpie Shrike
- Mallard
- Mandarin Duck
- Marbled Godwit
- Marsh Wren
- Merlin
- Mississippi Kite
- Monk Parakeet
- Mottled Duck
- Mountain Bluebird
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Muscovy Duck
- Mute Swan
- Myrtle Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Nelson’s Sparrow
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Northern Bobwhite
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Fulmar
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Hawk-Owl
- Northern House Wren
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Parula
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Raven
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- Northern Saw-whet Owl
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shrike
- Northern Waterthrush
- Northern Wheatear
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Orchard Oriole
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Pacific Loon
- Painted Bunting
- Painted Whitestart
- Palm Warbler
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Passenger Pigeon
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Phainopepla
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Grosbeak
- Pine Siskin
- Pine Warbler
- Piping Plover
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Prairie Falcon
- Prairie Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Finch
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Red Crossbill
- Red Fox Sparrow
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-eyed Vireo
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-legged Partridge
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-whiskered Bulbul
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Redhead
- Redpoll
- Ring-billed Gull
- Ring-necked Duck
- Rock Dove
- Rock Ptarmigan
- Rock Wren
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Ross’s Goose
- Ross’s Gull
- Rough-legged Buzzard
- Royal Tern
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Ruffed Grouse
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Rusty Blackbird
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sage Thrasher
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Crane
- Savannah Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Scaly-breasted Munia
- Scarlet Ibis
- Scarlet Tanager
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- Scott’s Oriole
- Sedge Wren
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Sharp-tailed Grouse
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-billed Gull
- Short-eared Owl
- Silver Pheasant
- Slaty-backed Gull
- Smew
- Smith’s Longspur
- Snow Bunting
- Snow Goose
- Snowy Egret
- Snowy Owl
- Snowy Plover
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sora
- Spotted Dove
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Spotted Towhee
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Spruce Grouse
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Summer Tanager
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swainson’s Thrush
- Swainson’s Warbler
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Swamp Sparrow
- Swan Goose
- Tennessee Warbler
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Tree Swallow
- Tricolored Heron
- Tropical Kingbird
- Trumpeter Swan
- Tufted Duck
- Tufted Titmouse
- Tundra Swan
- Turkey Vulture
- Two-barred Crossbill
- Upland Sandpiper
- Varied Thrush
- Veery
- Vega Gull
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Vesper Sparrow
- Violet-green Swallow
- Virginia Rail
- Western Cattle Egret
- Western Grebe
- Western Kingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Western Sandpiper
- Western Tanager
- Western Warbling Vireo
- Western Wood Pewee
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-faced Ibis
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-tailed Kite
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Dove
- White-winged Scoter
- Whooper Swan
- Whooping Crane
- Wild Turkey
- Willet
- Williamson’s Sapsucker
- Willow Flycatcher
- Willow Ptarmigan
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Wilson’s Plover
- Wilson’s Snipe
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Winter Wren
- Wood Duck
- Wood Stork
- Wood Thrush
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Yellow Rail
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Yellow-breasted Chat
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron
- Yellow-headed Blackbird
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Yellow-throated Warbler
More places to explore
Birds of Minnesota by bird group
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Minnesota (53 species)
- New World Warblers of Minnesota (41 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Minnesota (34 species)
- New World Sparrows of Minnesota (29 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Minnesota (28 species)
- Tyrant Flycatchers of Minnesota (20 species)
Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in Minnesota?
474 species have been recorded in Minnesota on eBird; 473 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Minnesota right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.
