Appendix F: Rare Birds 



The Following list identifies species rare enough in Montana to require hill documentation of 

 anv reported sightings in the state. A species is considered rare it" it has been recorded in the state 

 fewer than 20 times. The Montana Bird Records Committee will re\'iew such records before their 

 inclusion in Montdiia Bird Distribution. Any species not previously seen in the state will only be 

 added to the state list if the committee accepts independent documentation from two or more skilled 

 observers, or if \erified bv a photograph or specimen. See Appendix G for Montana ILu'e Bird Report 

 form. 



The following species have been recorded with proper documentation at least once in the state, 

 but few er than 20 times: 



Red-throated Loon 



Pacific Loon 



Yellow- billed Loon 



Least Bittern 



Little Blue Heron 



Green Heron 



Yellow-crowned Night- Heron 



Wood Stork. 



Brant 



Garganey 



Black Scoter 



Mississippi Kite 



Red-shouldered Hawk 



Willow Ptarmigan 



Greater Prairie-Chicken 



Yellow Rail 



Common Moorhen 



Snow"\- Plo\er 



Hudsonian Godwit 



Black Turnstone 



Sharp-tailecH Sandpiper 



Curlew Sandpiper 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper 



American Woodcock 



Red Phalarope 



Pomarine Jaeger 



Parasitic Jaeger 



Long-tailed Jaeger 



Laughing Gull 



Little Gull 



Mew Gull 



Thayer's Gull 



Glaucous-wingeci Gull 



Glaucous Gull 



Great Black-backed Gull 



Sabine's Gull 



Black-legged Kittiwake 



Ivorv Gull 



Arctic Tern 



Ancient Murrelet 



Band-tailed Pigeon 

 Eurasian Collared- Dove 

 White-winged Dove 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 

 Wliip-poor-will 

 Rubv-throated Hummingbird 

 Anna's Hummingbird 

 Costa's Hummingbird 

 Broad-tailed Hummingbird 

 Red-bellied Woodpecker 

 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 

 White-headed Woodpecker 

 Eastern \Vood-Pewee 

 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 

 Alder Ehcatcher 

 Gra\' Ehcatcher 

 Eastern I^hoebe 

 Vermilion FK'catcher 

 Ash-thrt)ated Fhcatcher 

 Great Crested Flycatcher 

 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 

 White-exed Vireo 

 Yellow -throated \'ireo 

 Plumbeous Vireo 

 Blue-headeci \'ireo 

 Philadelphia Vireo 

 Western Scrub- Jay 

 Bewick's Wren 

 Sedge Wren 

 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 

 Gray-cheeked Thrush 

 Wood Thrush 

 Golden-winged Warbler 

 Northern Parula 



Cape May Warbler 

 Black-throated Blue Warbler 

 Black-throated Gray Warbler 

 Black-throated Green Warbler 

 Blackburnian Warbler 

 Yellow-throated Warbler 

 Pine Warbler 

 Prairie Warbler 

 Bay- breasted Warbler 

 Pre ithonotary Warbler 

 Kentucky Warbler 

 Connecticut Warbler 

 Hooded Warbler 

 Canacia Warbler 

 Painted Redstart 

 Summer Tanager 

 Scarlet Tanager 

 I^lack- throated Sparrow- 

 Sage Sparrow 

 Le Conte's Sparrow 

 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow- 

 Swamp Sparrow- 

 Golden -crowned Sparrow- 

 Smith's Longspur 

 Northern Cardinal 

 Pyrrhuloxia 

 Blue Grosbeak 

 Dickcissel 



Great-tailed Crackle 

 Hoodeci Oriole 

 Brambling 

 Lesser Goldfinch 



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