Birds of Minnesota

By:

Josh Hobday

Ryan Randolph

MN State Bird

• Common Loon-(Gavia immer)

• It feeds on both salt and fresh water fish, including pike, trout, bass, flounder and herring.

Great Blue Heron

• Ardea herodias

• Fish and other small amimals– Has been known to choke to death on prey

that’s to large for it to swallow.

Canada Goose

• Branta canadensis

• Eats variety of grasses, wheat, beans, rice, and corn.

• Male Female

Mallard

• Anas platyrhynchos

• Vegetation, insects, mollusks, and crustaceans.

Wood Duck

• Aix sponsa

• Vegetation, insects, snails, tadpoles, and salamanders.

Red-tailed Hawk

• Buteo jamaicensis

• Small mammals, some birds and reptiles.

Osprey

• Pandion haliaetus

• Fish

Bald Eagle

• Haliaeetus leucocephalus

• Fish, carion, waterfowl, other birds, turtles, rabbits, and road-killed deer.

American Crow

• Corvus brachyrhynchos

• Fruits, snails, salamanders, grain, small birds, mice, eggs, toads, corn, insects, and carrrion.

Red-Headed Woodpecker

• Melanerpes erythrocephalus

• Insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, seeds, nuts, and berrys.

Ring-Necked Pheasant

• Phasianus colchicus

• Waste grain, seeds, and plant parts.

Wild Turkey

• Meleagris gallopavo

• Seeds, acorns, leaves, grains, berries, and insects.

American Robin

• Turdus migratorius

• Wild and cultivated fruits, berries, earthworms, and insects.

Eastern Bluebird

• Sialia sialis

• Insects, earthworms, snails, invertebrates, and berries.

Northern Cardinal

• Cardinalis cardinalis

• Seeds, insects, fruit, and snails.

American Goldfinch

• Carduelis tristis

• Seeds, fruit, and suet.

Barn Swallow

• Hirundo rustica

• Insects

Blue Jay

• Cyanocitta cristata

• Fruits, nuts, insects, seeds, frogs, mice, and sometimes eggs.

Northern Oriole

• Icterus galbula

• Caterpillars, moths, beetles, ants, bugs, scale insects, aphids, woodborers, fruits, garden peas, and flower nectar.

Ruby Throated Hummingbird

• Archilochus colubris• Nectar, also eats

insects and spiders.

Common Raven

• Corvus corax• Food: carrion, insects, magets, beetles,

afterbirth of ewes, small mamals, reptiles, frogs, young or wounded birds, grain, acorns, and fruits.

Warblers

• Yellow-rumped Warbler

• Dendroica coronata• Deciduous Forest• Insects, berries, and

fruits.

• Black and White Warbler

• Mniotilta varia• Coniferous Forest• Caterpillars, flies, bugs,

beetles, spiders, borers, and arthropod egg masses.

Aquatic Wading

• American Bittern• Botaurus lentiginosus• Deciduous/

coniferous/prairie• Insects, amphibians,

crayfish, and small fish and mammals.

• Sandhill Crane• Grus canadensis• Coniferous Forest• Grains, berries, small

mammals, insects, snails, reptiles, and amphibians.

Ground Nesting Birds

• American Woodcock• Scolopax minor• Deciduous/

coniferous/prairie.• Earthworms, and

burrowing insects larva.

• Horned Lark• Eremophila alpestris• Coniferous• Seeds, insects, small

mollusks.

Ground Nesting

Falcons

• Merlin• Falco columbarius• Deciduous• Small birds, small

mammals, lizards, snakes, and insects.

• Peregrine Falcon• Falco peregrinus• Coniferous/Deciduous• Birds, reptiles, and

mammals.