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.
