Species in Greatest Conservation Need in Minnesota:

For details see Tomorrow's Habitat for the Wild and Rare - An Action Plan for Minnesota Wildlife Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy.

Ducks, Geese, Swans
Trumpeter Swan
American Black Duck
Northern Pintail
Lesser Scaup

Partridge, Grouse, Turkey
Spruce Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Greater Prairie-Chicken

Loons
Common Loon

Grebes
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe

Pelicans
American White Pelican

Herons & Bitterns
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Black-crowned Night Heron

Hawks & Eagles
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Swainson's Hawk

Falcons
Peregrine Falcon

Rails, Gallinules, Coots
Yellow Rail
King Rail
Virginia Rail
Common Moorhen

Plovers
American Golden-Plover
Piping Plover
Avocet
American Avocet

Sandpipers & Phalaropes
Greater Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Hudsonian Godwit
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Dunlin
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
American Woodcock
Wilson's Phalarope

Jaegers, Gulls, Terns
Franklin 's Gull
Common Tern
Forster's Tern

Pigeons & Doves

Cuckoos
Black-billed Cuckoo

Owls
Burrowing Owl
Short-eared Owl
Boreal Owl

Nighthawks & Nightjars
Common Nighthawk
Whip-poor-will

Woodpeckers
Red-headed Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker

Tyrant Flycatchers
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatchear
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher

Shrikes
Loggerhead Shrike

Vireos
Bell 's Vireo

Larks

Swallows
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Boreal Chickadee

Wrens
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren

Thrushes
Veery
Wood Thrush

Mockingbirds & Thrashers
Brown Thrasher

Pipits
Sprague's Pipit

Wood-Warblers
Blue-winged Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Connecticut Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Canada Warbler

Towhees, Sparrows, Longspurs
Field Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Baird's Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Le Conte's Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Chestnut-collared Longspur

Cardinals & Grosbeaks
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Dickcissel

Blackbirds & Orioles
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird