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North Dakota Rare Birds

With a goal of keeping the North Dakota state list accurate, reports of rare birds are peer-reviewed prior to publication. This table provides you with a list of species and specific criteria for which documentation is required. You should also document any species new to the state or very much out of range or season.

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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck	Western Flycatcher	Gray Flycatcher
Fulvous Whistling-Duck	Brant	Garganey
Eurasian Wigeon	Mottled Duck	King Eider
Common Eider	Harlequin Duck	Barrow's Goldeneye
Willow Ptarmigan	Clark's Grebe nesting	Band-tailed Pigeon
Inca Dove	White-winged Dove	Groove-billed Ani
Black-chinned Hummingbird	Anna's Hummingbird	Calliope Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird	Broad-tailed Hummingbird	King Rail
Common Gallinule	Common Crane	Mountain Plover
Snowy Plover	Eskimo Curlew EXTINCT	Ruff
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper	Curlew Sandpiper	Little Stint
Western Sandpiper	Red Phalarope	Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger	Long-tailed Jaeger	Black-legged Kittiwake except those at Garrison Dam
Little Gull	Ross's Gull	Laughing Gull
Short-billed Gull	Glaucous-winged Gull	Great Black-backed Gull
Arctic Tern	Red-throated Loon	Pacific Loon
Yellow-billed Loon	Wood Stork	Northern Gannet
Neotropic Cormorant	Brown Pelican	Little Blue Heron sightings and nesting
Tricolored Heron	Yellow-crowned Night-Heron	White Ibis
Glossy Ibis	White-tailed Kite	Swallow-tailed Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk	Barn Owl	Northern Hawk Owl
Great Gray Owl	Boreal Owl	Lewis's Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker	Black-backed Woodpecker	Crested Caracara
Gyrfalcon	White-crested Elaenia	Cassin's Kingbird
Thick-billed Kingbird	Scissor-tailed Flycatcher	Hammond's Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher	White-eyed Vireo	Cassin's Vireo
Plumbeous Vireo	Canada Jay	Pinyon Jay
Clark's Nutcracker	Boreal Chickadee	Tufted Titmouse
Pygmy Nuthatch	Bewick's Wren	Carolina Wren
Sage Thrasher	Western Bluebird	Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Brambling	Cassin's Finch	Lesser Goldfinch
Thick-billed Longspur other than at “Rhame Prairie”	Black-throated Sparrow	Golden-crowned Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow	Green-tailed Towhee	Eastern Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle	Painted Redstart	Worm-eating Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush	Blue-winged Warbler	Prothonotary Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler	Kentucky Warbler	Hooded Warbler
Cerulean Warbler	Pine Warbler	Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler	Black-throated Gray Warbler	Townsend's Warbler
Painted Bunting