Minnesota Bird Songs - an interactive audio guide to songbirds from the Minnesota Conservation Volunteer magazine *RSG - Animals listed on the Rare Species Guide

This bird list includes 246 species found by MBS during the breeding season. See About the Bird List for an explanation of which species are included and descriptions of the fields.

View maps of 246 bird species recorded by MBS during the breeding season. The Minnesota Biological Survey (MBS) has been documenting birds in Minnesota since 1988.

This list has 246 Minnesota breeding bird species found by the Minnesota Biological Survey. Several of these species are very rare and may not nest annually in Minnesota.

Nine woodpecker species not only breed in Minnesota but also spend the winters here at least in small numbers, forgoing the long-distance migrations of less hardy birds.

The Rare Species Guide is a dynamic, interactive resource for information on Minnesota's endangered, threatened and special concern species. You can make the Rare Species Guide …

Approximately 16 percent (346) of these species are identified as Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) in Minnesota's Wildlife Action Plan because they are rare, their …

Minnesota’s Endangered Species Statute (Minnesota Statutes, Section 84.0895) requires the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to adopt rules designating species …

Most are migrants through the state, but these may linger on larger lakes and marshes until freeze up. Only three species breed within Minnesota: ring-billed gull, Franklin's gull*, and herring gull.

The sandhill crane, or "sandhill," is among Minnesota's largest bird species, standing about five feet tall and having a wingspread of nearly seven feet. Sandhills are birds of wet meadows and …