[Sticky] Official Avian List

Posted below are the avian prey species. Other species can be found in the Prey Guide

Anything that's italicized will be a cross entry to another guide. The text following any entry to these lists will indicate original guide, and places to be crosslinked from (IE: HOME-GUIDE -> LINK1, LINK2).

Feel free to propose areas you think we might have overlooked something, or changes you think we may wish to make to the list as it currently stands. Make sure to keep in mind that our forest is in the US, MN (not far off the point of lake superior facing west).

You'll have about 24 hours without comments before I finalize this and start getting things ready to publish.

• Anything linked has been added to the main lists.
• Anything with a linked X in parenthesis following it has been entered into the TO DO LIST.
• Anything with a GRAY linked title has it's central page made in the Prey Guide.
• Anything with a RED linked title is awaiting the creation of it's central prey guide page.

• Birds marked with + are seen during spring/fall migrations
• Birds marked with - are seen during summer
• Birds marked with | are seen during winter
• Unmarked birds are year-round

Prey Species

Blackbird

• - Bobolink
• - Red-winged Blackbird
• - Brown-headed Cowbird

Canary

• - American Goldfinch
• -/+ Philadelphia Vireo
• - Yellow Warbler
• - Cape May Warbler
• -/+ Palm Warbler
• + Wilson's Warbler

Capped Sparrow

• - White-throated Sparrow
• + Lapland Longspur
• + Smith's Longspur
• - Chestnut-sided Warbler
• -/+ Horned Lark
• + White-crowned Sparrow
• + Blackpoll Warbler

Cardinal

• Northern Cardinal
• - Great Crested Flycatcher
• | Bohemian Waxwing
• Cedar Waxwing
• - Blue-headed Vireo
• - Scarlet Tanager
• | Pine Grosbeak
• Purple Finch
• Red Crossbill
• White-winged Crossbill

Chickadee

• Black-capped Chickadee
• Boreal Chickadee
• - Golden-crowned Kinglet
• - Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• White-breasted Nuthatch

Crow

• - American Crow
• European Starling
• -/+ Rusty Blackbird
• - Brewer's Blackbird
• - Common Grackle
• - Black Tern

Divingbird

• - Belted Kingfisher

Dove

• - Mourning Dove

Duck

• - Wood Duck
• - Green-winged Teal
• - American Black Duck
• - Mallard
• - Blue-winged Teal
• + Northern Shoveler
• - Gadwall
• -/+ American Wigeon
• + Canvasback
• + Redhead
• - Ring-necked Duck
• + Greater Scaup
• + Lesser Scaup
• + Long-tailed Duck
• Common Goldeneye
• -/+ Bufflehead
• - Hooded Merganser
• - Common Merganser
• - Red-breasted Merganser
• - Ruddy Duck
• - American Coot
• + Red-throated Loon
• - Common Loon
• - Pied-billed Grebe
• +/- Horned Grebe

Finch

• - Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• | Common Redpoll
• | Hoary Redpoll
• Pine Siskin
• - Common Yellowthroat
• - Golden-winged Warbler
• - Black-throated Blue Warbler
• - Connecticut Warbler
• - Black-throated Green Warbler

Goose

• + Snow Goose
• - Canada Goose

Grouse

• Spruce Grouse
• Ruffed Grouse
• Sharp-tailed Grouse

Gull

• - Ring-billed Gull
• - Herring Gull

Hawk

• Broad-winged Hawk ^{Pred -> Prey}
• Cooper's Hawk ^{Pred -> Prey}
• Northern Harrier ^{Pred -> Prey}
• Red-shouldered Hawk ^{Pred -> Prey}
• Sharp-shinned Hawk ^{Pred -> Prey}
• - Merlin

Heron

• - American Bittern
• | Cattle Egret

Hummingbird

• - Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Jay

Blue

• Blue Jay
• - Indigo Bunting

Gray

• Gray Jay
• | Northern Shrike
• - Olive-sided Flycatcher
• - Eastern Kingbird
• - Warbling Vireo
• - Black-billed Cuckoo

Kestrel

• - American Kestrel

Lark

• - Eastern Meadowlark
• - Western Meadowlark

Little Stork

• + Greater Yellowlegs
• + Lesser Yellowlegs
• + Stilt Sandpiper
• + Solitary Sandpiper

Marshbird

• + American Golden-Plover
• + Semipalmated Plover
• - Killdeer
• - Spotted Sandpiper
• - Upland Sandpiper
• + Semipalmated Sandpiper
• + Least Sandpiper
• + White-rumped Sandpiper
• + Pectoral Sandpiper
• + Dunlin
• - Wilson's Snipe

Nighthawk

• - Common Nighthawk
• - Whip-poor-will

Oriole

• - Baltimore Oriole
• + Orange-crowned Warbler
• - Nashville Warbler
• - Northern Parula
• - Magnolia Warbler
• - Blackburnian Warbler
• - Pine Warbler
• - American Redstart
• - Mourning Warbler
• - Canada Warbler
• Evening Grosbeak

Owl

• Barn Owl ^{Pred -> Prey}
• Barred Owl ^{Pred -> Prey}
• Long-eared Owl ^{Pred -> Prey}
• Short-eared Owl ^{Pred -> Prey}

Pigeon

• Rock Pigeon

Raven

• Common Raven ^{Pred -> Prey}

Robin

• - American Robin
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• -/+ Bay-breasted Warbler
• - Eastern Bluebird

Sandbird

• - Yellow Rail
• - Sora
• - American Woodcock

Snow Sparrow

• | Snow Bunting
• - Black-and-white Warbler

Sparrow

• + American Tree Sparrow
• - Chipping Sparrow
• - Vesper Sparrow
• + Fox Sparrow
• - Song Sparrow
• - Lincoln's Sparrow
• - Swamp Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco
• House Sparrow
• - Tennessee Warbler
• - Ovenbird
• - Northern Waterthrush
• - Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
• - Alder Flycatcher
• - Least Flycatcher
• - Eastern Phoebe
• - Red-eyed Vireo
• - Savannah Sparrow
• - Le Conte's Sparrow
• - Yellow-rumped Warbler

Swallow

• - Chimney Swift
• - Purple Martin
• - Tree Swallow
• - Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• - Cliff Swallow
• - Barn Swallow

Tern

• + Bonaparte's Gull
• + Franklin's Gull
• + Caspian Tern
• - Common Tern
• + Forster's Tern

Thrush

• - Veery
• + Gray-cheeked Thrush
• - Swainson's Thrush
• - Hermit Thrush
• - Gray Catbird
• Northern Mockingbird
• - Brown Thrasher
• + American Pipit
• - Eastern Wood-Pewee

Woodpecker

• - Red-headed Woodpecker
• - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Black-backed Woodpecker
• - Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker

Wren

• - House Wren
• - Winter Wren
• - Sedge Wren
• Brown Creeper
• - Marsh Wren