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Minnesota wildlife

470 species in the Minnesota dex: 142 Common, 165 Uncommon, 141 Rare, 22 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#034 🦌 Northern Myotis · location protected

#035 🦌 Woodland jumping mouse

#061 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#067 🐦 Boreal Owl

#069 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#078 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#084 🐦 Greylag Goose

#086 🐦 Swan Goose

#100 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#145 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#189 🐦 Black Vulture

#209 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#222 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#307 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#327 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#348 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#404 🐦 Rock Wren

#466 🐦 African Collared Dove

#473 🐦 Northern hawk-owl

#496 🐦 American Barn Owl

#521 🦎 Smooth softshell turtle

#546 🐸 Mudpuppy

Rare

141

#001 🦌 North American Hoary Bat

#005 🦌 Domesticated cattle · introduced

#009 🦌 Star-nosed Mole

#012 🦌 Horse · introduced

#016 🦌 Northern Flying Squirrel

#019 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#020 🦌 Red Bat

#022 🦌 White-tailed Jackrabbit

#033 🦌 Little Brown Myotis

#038 🦌 Fisher

#039 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#040 🦌 North American Deermouse

#043 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#047 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#053 🦌 American Badger

#054 🦌 Richardson's Ground Squirrel

#058 🦌 Round-tailed Ground Squirrel

#059 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#064 🐦 Clark's Grebe

#066 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#071 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#075 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#088 🐦 Ross's Goose

#092 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#098 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#099 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#105 🐦 Tufted Duck

#109 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#115 🐦 Brent Goose

#120 🐦 Cattle Egret

#123 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#129 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#131 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#132 🐦 Lark Bunting

#134 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#135 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#140 🐦 Red Knot

#142 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#148 🐦 Ruff

#150 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#152 🐦 Spruce Grouse

#168 🐦 Piping Plover

#182 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#192 🐦 Yellow Rail

#199 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#201 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#206 🐦 Little blue heron

#207 🐦 Snowy egret

#215 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#231 🐦 Common Moorhen

#235 🐦 Pacific Loon

#236 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#238 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#241 🐦 Whooping Crane

#247 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#249 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#251 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#252 🐦 Little Gull

#255 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#256 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#260 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#262 🐦 Varied Thrush

#266 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#268 🐦 California Gull

#270 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#274 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#285 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#288 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#294 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#297 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#301 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#302 🐦 Black Scoter

#303 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#305 🐦 Surf Scoter

#314 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#317 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#326 🐦 Whimbrel

#328 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#332 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#333 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#337 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#340 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#343 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#344 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#345 🐦 Painted Bunting

#351 🐦 Grey Partridge · introduced

#357 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#358 🐦 Red Phalarope

#359 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#366 🐦 American Three-toed Woodpecker

#370 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#371 🐦 Western Tanager

#373 🐦 Summer Tanager

#376 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#377 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#391 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#394 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#398 🐦 American Avocet

#403 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#406 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#410 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#411 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#414 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#416 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#417 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#419 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#420 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#424 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#435 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#441 🐦 King Eider

#443 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#458 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#459 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#463 🐦 Arctic Tern

#464 🐦 Least Tern

#467 🐦 Great Grey Owl

#474 🐦 Ancient Murrelet

#478 🐦 Carolina Wren

#483 🐦 Willet

#488 🐦 Greater Prairie Chicken

#490 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#494 🐦 Western Kingbird

#499 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#502 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#507 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#508 🐦 White-winged Dove

#511 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

#515 🐸 Blue-spotted Salamander

#519 🐸 Great Plains Toad

#523 🦎 Six-lined Racerunner

#527 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

#532 🦎 Wood turtle

#533 🦎 Common map turtle

#534 🦎 Ouachita map turtle

#535 🦎 False Map Turtle

#536 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#537 🦎 Western Hognose Snake

#538 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#539 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#549 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#550 🦎 Western Foxsnake

Uncommon

165

#003 🦌 American bison

#004 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#007 🦌 Wolf

#011 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#013 🦌 North American porcupine

#014 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#015 🦌 Plains pocket gopher

#017 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#024 🦌 Canadian Lynx

#027 🦌 American Marten

#028 🦌 Striped Skunk

#029 🦌 Meadow vole

#030 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#031 🦌 Ermine

#032 🦌 Southern Red-backed Vole

#041 🦌 Franklin's Ground Squirrel

#044 🦌 Eastern Mole

#050 🦌 Least Chipmunk

#055 🦌 Gray Fox

#056 🦌 American Black Bear

#057 🦌 Red Fox

#062 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#065 🐦 Western Grebe

#073 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#074 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#077 🐦 Northern Pintail

#082 🐦 American Black Duck

#083 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#085 🐦 Snow Goose

#089 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#093 🐦 Golden Eagle

#103 🐦 Redhead

#106 🐦 Greater scaup

#107 🐦 Canvasback

#108 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#111 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#112 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#113 🐦 American Bittern

#117 🐦 Cackling Goose

#118 🐦 Snowy Owl

#119 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#125 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#126 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#133 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#137 🐦 Sanderling

#138 🐦 Dunlin

#139 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#143 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#146 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#147 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#149 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#153 🐦 Canada Warbler

#154 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#159 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#160 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#163 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#169 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#171 🐦 Black Tern

#172 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#173 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#174 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#176 🐦 Marsh Wren

#177 🐦 Sedge Wren

#178 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#179 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#180 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#186 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#197 🐦 Tundra Swan

#202 🐦 Bobolink

#211 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#212 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#214 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#218 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#219 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#220 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#221 🐦 Merlin

#223 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#230 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#239 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#248 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#253 🐦 Caspian Tern

#254 🐦 Wood Thrush

#259 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#265 🐦 Northern Shrike

#272 🐦 Iceland Gull

#273 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#277 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#282 🐦 Franklin's gull

#284 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#287 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#291 🐦 Red Crossbill

#292 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#293 🐦 American Wigeon

#299 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#309 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#313 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#329 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#334 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#338 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#342 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#352 🐦 Gray Jay

#360 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#364 🐦 Black-billed Magpie

#365 🐦 Black-backed Woodpecker

#367 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#369 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#372 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#375 🐦 Snow Bunting

#378 🐦 American Golden Plover

#379 🐦 Grey Plover

#380 🐦 Horned Grebe

#381 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#382 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#385 🐦 Boreal Chickadee

#386 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#387 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#389 🐦 Sora

#390 🐦 Purple Martin

#397 🐦 Virginia Rail

#402 🐦 Sand Martin

#407 🐦 American Woodcock

#412 🐦 Northern Parula

#415 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#421 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#429 🐦 Pine Warbler

#431 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#432 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#434 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#451 🐦 Dickcissel

#457 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#461 🐦 Forster's Tern

#462 🐦 Common Tern

#465 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#468 🐦 Barred owl

#469 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#470 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#481 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#482 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#484 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#486 🐦 Winter Wren

#489 🐦 Sharp-tailed Grouse

#497 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#498 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#504 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#505 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#506 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#512 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#513 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#514 🐸 Blanchard's Cricket Frog

#516 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#517 🐸 Tiger Salamander

#520 🐸 Canadian Toad

#522 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#526 🦎 Eastern Racer

#528 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#531 🦎 Blanding's turtle

#542 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#544 🐸 Mink Frog

#547 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#548 🐸 Eastern Newt

#551 🦎 Gopher Snake

#552 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#553 🦎 Northern Prairie Skink

#557 🦎 Brown Snake

#559 🦎 Plains Garter Snake

Common

142

#002 🦌 Moose

#006 🦌 Coyote

#008 🦌 American beaver

#010 🦌 Virginia opossum

#018 🦌 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

#021 🦌 Snowshoe Hare

#023 🦌 North American River Otter

#025 🦌 Bobcat

#026 🦌 Woodchuck

#036 🦌 White-tailed deer

#037 🦌 Muskrat

#042 🦌 Raccoon

#045 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#046 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#048 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#051 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#052 🦌 Red Squirrel

#060 🐦 Common Redpoll

#063 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#068 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#070 🐦 Wood Duck

#079 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#081 🐦 Mallard

#095 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#096 🐦 Great Egret

#097 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#102 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#104 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#110 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#116 🐦 Canada goose

#121 🐦 Bufflehead

#122 🐦 Common goldeneye

#124 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#127 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#130 🐦 Green Heron

#155 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#157 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#158 🐦 Veery

#161 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#165 🐦 Brown Creeper

#166 🐦 Chimney Swift

#170 🐦 Killdeer

#175 🐦 Hen Harrier

#181 🐦 Northern Flicker

#183 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#188 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#190 🐦 American Crow

#191 🐦 Common Raven

#194 🐦 Blue Jay

#196 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#203 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#204 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#205 🐦 Gray Catbird

#213 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#216 🐦 Horned Lark

#225 🐦 American Kestrel

#228 🐦 American Coot

#234 🐦 Common Loon

#240 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#242 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#244 🐦 House Finch

#245 🐦 Purple Finch

#246 🐦 Bald Eagle

#250 🐦 Barn Swallow

#257 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#263 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#269 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#276 🐦 American Herring Gull

#278 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#279 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#280 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#290 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#295 🐦 Gadwall

#296 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#298 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#306 🐦 Wild Turkey

#308 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#310 🐦 Song Sparrow

#312 🐦 Goosander

#315 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#316 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#320 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#336 🐦 Osprey

#339 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#341 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#346 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#349 🐦 American White Pelican

#353 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#356 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#361 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#362 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#383 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#384 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#395 🐦 Common Grackle

#399 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#400 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#405 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#408 🐦 Ovenbird

#418 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#423 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#426 🐦 Palm Warbler

#427 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#428 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#430 🐦 American Redstart

#436 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#437 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#438 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#442 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#444 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#446 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#448 🐦 Pine Siskin

#450 🐦 American Goldfinch

#453 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#454 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#455 🐦 Field Sparrow

#456 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#471 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#475 🐦 Tree Swallow

#480 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#485 🐦 House Wren

#487 🐦 American Robin

#493 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#500 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#501 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#503 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#509 🐦 Mourning Dove

#510 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#518 🐸 American Toad

#524 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#525 🦎 Painted Turtle

#529 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#530 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#540 🐸 American Bullfrog

#541 🐸 Green Frog

#543 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#545 🐸 Wood Frog

#554 🐸 Redback Salamander

#555 🐸 Spring Peeper

#556 🐸 Boreal Chorus Frog

#558 🦎 Redbelly Snake

#560 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#561 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#049 🦌 Southern bog lemming

#072 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#076 🐦 Black-Throated Sparrow

#080 🐦 Mottled Duck

#087 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#090 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#091 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#094 🐦 Limpkin

#101 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#114 🐦 Long-billed Murrelet

#128 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#136 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#141 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#144 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#151 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#156 🐦 European Goldfinch

#162 🐦 Baird's Sparrow

#164 🐦 Black Guillemot

#167 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#184 🐦 Inca Dove

#185 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#187 🐦 Western wood-pewee

#193 🐦 Groove-billed Ani

#195 🐦 Black swan

#198 🐦 Whooper Swan

#200 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#208 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#210 🐦 White-tailed Kite

#217 🐦 White Ibis

#224 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#226 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#227 🐦 Brambling

#229 🐦 Northern Fulmar

#232 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#233 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#237 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#243 🐦 Cassin's Finch

#258 🐦 Scott's Oriole

#261 🐦 Least Bittern

#264 🐦 Rock Ptarmigan

#267 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#271 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#275 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#281 🐦 Laughing Gull

#283 🐦 Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

#286 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#289 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia · introduced

#300 🐦 Acorn Woodpecker

#304 🐦 Common Scoter

#311 🐦 Abert's towhee

#318 🐦 Wood Stork

#319 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#321 🐦 Painted Whitestart

#322 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#323 🐦 Clark's Nutcracker

#324 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#325 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#330 🐦 Cockatiel

#331 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#335 🐦 Ivory Gull

#347 🐦 Band-tailed Pigeon

#350 🐦 Brown Pelican

#354 🐦 Cassin's Sparrow

#355 🐦 Phainopepla

#363 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#368 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#374 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#388 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#392 🐦 Red-whiskered bulbul · introduced

#393 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#396 🐦 King Rail

#401 🐦 Ross's Gull

#409 🐦 Calliope Hummingbird

#413 🐦 Audubon's Warbler

#422 🐦 Kirtland's Warbler

#425 🐦 Hermit Warbler

#433 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#439 🐦 Pygmy Nuthatch

#440 🐦 Common Eider

#445 🐦 Garganey

#447 🐦 Spotted Dove · introduced

#449 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#452 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#460 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#472 🐦 Brown Booby

#476 🐦 Royal Tern

#477 🐦 Bewick's Wren

#479 🐦 Curve-billed Thrasher

#491 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#492 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#495 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird