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Birds of Minnesota. By: Josh Hobday Ryan Randolph. Common Loon-(Gavia immer) It feeds on both salt and fresh water fish, including pike, trout, bass, flounder and herring. MN State Bird. Great Blue Heron. Ardea herodias Fish and other small amimals - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Birds of Minnesota
By:
Josh Hobday
Ryan Randolph
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MN State Bird
• Common Loon-(Gavia immer)
• It feeds on both salt and fresh water fish, including pike, trout, bass, flounder and herring.
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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.
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Canada Goose
• Branta canadensis
• Eats variety of grasses, wheat, beans, rice, and corn.
• Male Female
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Mallard
• Anas platyrhynchos
• Vegetation, insects, mollusks, and crustaceans.
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Wood Duck
• Aix sponsa
• Vegetation, insects, snails, tadpoles, and salamanders.
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Red-tailed Hawk
• Buteo jamaicensis
• Small mammals, some birds and reptiles.
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Osprey
• Pandion haliaetus
• Fish
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Bald Eagle
• Haliaeetus leucocephalus
• Fish, carion, waterfowl, other birds, turtles, rabbits, and road-killed deer.
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American Crow
• Corvus brachyrhynchos
• Fruits, snails, salamanders, grain, small birds, mice, eggs, toads, corn, insects, and carrrion.
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Red-Headed Woodpecker
• Melanerpes erythrocephalus
• Insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, seeds, nuts, and berrys.
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Ring-Necked Pheasant
• Phasianus colchicus
• Waste grain, seeds, and plant parts.
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Wild Turkey
• Meleagris gallopavo
• Seeds, acorns, leaves, grains, berries, and insects.
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American Robin
• Turdus migratorius
• Wild and cultivated fruits, berries, earthworms, and insects.
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Eastern Bluebird
• Sialia sialis
• Insects, earthworms, snails, invertebrates, and berries.
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Northern Cardinal
• Cardinalis cardinalis
• Seeds, insects, fruit, and snails.
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American Goldfinch
• Carduelis tristis
• Seeds, fruit, and suet.
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Barn Swallow
• Hirundo rustica
• Insects
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Blue Jay
• Cyanocitta cristata
• Fruits, nuts, insects, seeds, frogs, mice, and sometimes eggs.
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Northern Oriole
• Icterus galbula
• Caterpillars, moths, beetles, ants, bugs, scale insects, aphids, woodborers, fruits, garden peas, and flower nectar.
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Ruby Throated Hummingbird
• Archilochus colubris• Nectar, also eats
insects and spiders.
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Common Raven
• Corvus corax• Food: carrion, insects, magets, beetles,
afterbirth of ewes, small mamals, reptiles, frogs, young or wounded birds, grain, acorns, and fruits.
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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.
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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.
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Ground Nesting Birds
• American Woodcock• Scolopax minor• Deciduous/
coniferous/prairie.• Earthworms, and
burrowing insects larva.
• Horned Lark• Eremophila alpestris• Coniferous• Seeds, insects, small
mollusks.
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Ground Nesting
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Falcons
• Merlin• Falco columbarius• Deciduous• Small birds, small
mammals, lizards, snakes, and insects.
• Peregrine Falcon• Falco peregrinus• Coniferous/Deciduous• Birds, reptiles, and
mammals.