Birds of Savanna Portage State Park
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Birds of Savanna Portage State Park
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Birds of Savanna Portage State Park
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❏ Cliff Swallow
❏ Barn Swallow
❏ Black-capped Chickadee
❏ Red-breasted Nuthatch
❏ White-breasted Nuthatch
❏ Brown Creeper
❏ House Wren
❏ Winter Wren
❏ Sedge Wren
❏ Marsh Wren
❏ Golden-crowned Kinglet
❏ Ruby-crowned Kinglet
❏ Eastern Bluebird
❏ Veery
❏ Gray-cheeked Thrush
❏ Swainson’s Thrush
❏ Hermit Thrush
❏ Wood Thrush
❏ American Robin
❏ Gray Catbird
❏ Brown Thrasher
❏ European Starling
❏ American Pipit
❏ Cedar Waxwing
❏ Golden-winged Warbler
❏ Tennessee Warbler
❏ Orange-crowned Warbler
❏ Nashville Warbler
❏ Northern Parula
❏ Yellow Warbler
❏ Chestnut-sided Warbler
❏ Magnolia Warbler
❏ Cape May Warbler
❏ Yellow-rumped Warbler
❏ Black-throated Green Warbler
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❏ Blackburnian Warbler
❏ Pine Warbler
❏ Palm Warbler
❏ Bay-breasted Warbler
❏ Blackpoll Warbler
❏ Black-and-white Warbler
❏ American Redstart
❏ Ovenbird
❏ Northern Waterthrush
❏ Connecticut Warbler
❏ Mourning Warbler
❏ Common Yellowthroat
❏ Wilson’s Warbler
❏ Canada Warbler
❏ Scarlet Tanager
❏ American Tree Sparrow
❏ Chipping Sparrow
❏ Clay-colored Sparrow
❏ Savannah Sparrow
❏ Le Conte’s Sparrow
❏ Fox Sparrow
❏ Song Sparrow
❏ Lincoln’s Sparrow
❏ Swamp Sparrow
❏ White-throated Sparrow
❏ Harris’s Sparrow
❏ White-crowned Sparrow
❏ Dark-eyed Junco
❏ Lapland Longspur
❏ Snow Bunting
❏ Northern Cardinal
❏ Rose-breasted Grosbeak
❏ Indigo Bunting
❏ Red-winged Blackbird
❏ Eastern Meadowlark
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❏ Western Meadowlark
❏ Yellow-headed Blackbird
❏ Rusty Blackbird
❏ Common Grackle
❏ Brown-headed Cowbird
❏ Orchard Oriole
❏ Baltimore Oriole
❏ Pine Grosbeak
❏ Purple Finch
❏ House Finch
❏ Red Crossbill
❏ White-winged Crossbill
❏ Common Redpoll
❏ Hoary Redpoll
❏ Pine Siskin
❏ American Goldfinch
❏ Evening Grosbeak
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Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Division of Parks & Recreation
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March 2004
DNR Web Site: www.dnr.state.mn.us
Birding Opportunities at
Savanna Portage State Park
Savanna Portage State Park consists of over
15,000 acres of bogs, marshes, lakes, rivers and
rolling hills. This northern park boasts a
diversity of songbirds. Thirty species of
neotropical warblers and vireos occur in the
park, the vast majority of which remain to nest
during June and July. Due to a high population
of small mammals, the park also provides
important habitat for owls. Great gray, great
horned, barred, long-eared, short-eared and
northern saw-whet owls occur in the park. The
boreal owl has been recorded in winter.
Season and Abundance Key
The seasons in the checklist are defined as follows:
Sp (Spring) = March, April, May
Su (Summer) = June, July
Fa (Fall) = August, September, October, November
Wi (Winter) = December, January, February
Abundance codes are defined as follows:
C = Common — present, relatively easy to find
U = Uncommon — observed, may be difficult to find
O = Occasional — may or may not be present in
any year
R = Rare — has occurred at least once, may or
may not be expected to recur
The names and taxonomic arrangement of species follows that of
the Checklist of the Birds of Minnesota (January, 2001), prepared by
the Minnesota Ornithological Records Committee.
This checklist contains the names of all birds that have been
documented in the park by reliable observers. It was constructed by
Robert B. Janssen and the MN DNR-Division of Parks & Recreation
using observations of Mr. Janssen, park staff and other observers, as
well as Minnesota Ornithologist’s Union records and data contained
in research reports. If you are interested in the specific sources used
for a particular park, contact the Parks Division Resource Management Program Coordinator by telephone at 651-297-1158 or by mail
at MNDNR-Parks, 500 Lafayette Road, Box 39 St. Paul, MN 55155-4039.
“Equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from programs of the Minnesota Department of
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origin, sex, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, age, sexual orientation,
membership or activity in a local commission, or disability. Discrimination inquires should be sent
to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, 500 Lafayette Road, St. Paul, MN 55155-4031;
or the Equal Opportunity Office, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240.”
This document is available in alternative formats to individuals with disabilities by calling 651-297-1158.
Copyright 2004, State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources.
Birds of Savanna Portage State Park
❏ Canada Goose
❏ Trumpeter Swan
❏ Tundra Swan
❏ Wood Duck
❏ Gadwall
❏ American Wigeon
❏ American Black Duck
❏ Mallard
❏ Blue-winged Teal
❏ Northern Shoveler
❏ Northern Pintail
❏ Green-winged Teal
❏ Canvasback
❏ Redhead
❏ Ring-necked Duck
❏ Greater Scaup
❏ Lesser Scaup
❏ Bufflehead
❏ Common Goldeneye
❏ Hooded Merganser
❏ Common Merganser
❏ Red-breasted Merganser
❏ Ruddy Duck
❏ Ruffed Grouse
❏ Common Loon
❏ Pied-billed Grebe
❏ Horned Grebe
❏ American White Pelican
❏ Double-crested Cormorant
❏ American Bittern
❏ Great Blue Heron
❏ Green Heron
❏ Turkey Vulture
❏ Osprey
❏ Bald Eagle
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❏ Northern Harrier
❏ Sharp-shinned Hawk
❏ Cooper’s Hawk
❏ Northern Goshawk
❏ Red-shouldered Hawk
❏ Broad-winged Hawk
❏ Red-tailed Hawk
❏ Rough-legged Hawk
❏ Golden Eagle
❏ American Kestrel
❏ Merlin
❏ Peregrine Falcon
❏ Virginia Rail
❏ Sora
❏ American Coot
❏ Sandhill Crane
❏ Killdeer
❏ Greater Yellowlegs
❏ Lesser Yellowlegs
❏ Solitary Sandpiper
❏ Spotted Sandpiper
❏ Pectoral Sandpiper
❏ Wilson’s Snipe
❏ American Woodcock
❏ Bonaparte’s Gull
❏ Herring Gull
❏ Caspian Tern
❏ Black Tern
❏ Mourning Dove
❏ Black-billed Cuckoo
❏ Great Horned Owl
❏ Barred Owl
❏ Great Gray Owl
❏ Long-eared Owl
❏ Short-eared Owl
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Birds of Savanna Portage State Park
❏ Boreal Owl
❏ Northern Saw-whet Owl
❏ Common Nighthawk
❏ Whip-poor-will
❏ Chimney Swift
❏ Ruby-throated Hummingbird
❏ Belted Kingfisher
❏ Red-headed Woodpecker
❏ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
❏ Downy Woodpecker
❏ Hairy Woodpecker
❏ Black-backed Woodpecker
❏ Northern Flicker
❏ Pileated Woodpecker
❏ Olive-sided Flycatcher
❏ Eastern Wood-Pewee
❏ Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
❏ Alder Flycatcher
❏ Least Flycatcher
❏ Eastern Phoebe
❏ Great Crested Flycatcher
❏ Eastern Kingbird
❏ Northern Shrike
❏ Yellow-throated Vireo
❏ Blue-headed Vireo
❏ Warbling Vireo
❏ Philadelphia Vireo
❏ Red-eyed Vireo
❏ Gray Jay
❏ Blue Jay
❏ American Crow
❏ Common Raven
❏ Tree Swallow
❏ Northern Rough-winged Swallow
❏ Bank Swallow
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