Appendix I. Checklist of Birds of Montana 



_ Red thix)atcd Iakiii* 



. Pacific Lnon* 



. Common Loon 



.Yellow-billed LcH)n* 



. ried-billed Ciebe 



. Horned Grebe 



. Red-necked Grebe 



. Eared Grebe 



. Western Grebe 



. Clark's Grebe 



. American White Pelican 



. Double-crested Cormorant 



American Bittern 

 . Least Bittern* 

 . Great Blue Heron 

 . Great Egret 

 . Snow\' Egret 

 . Little Blue Heron* 

 . Cattle Egret 

 . Green Heron* 

 . Black-crowned Night- Heron 

 . Yellow-crowned Night-Heron* 

 . White-taced Ibis 

 . Wood Stork* 

 . Turkey Vulture 

 . Greater White-fronted Goose 

 . Snow Goose 



Ross's Goose 



Canada Goose 



Brant* 

 . Mute Swan 

 . Trumpeter Swan 

 . Tundra Swan 

 . Wood Duck 

 . Gadwall 

 . Eurasian Wigeon 

 . American Wigeon 

 . American Black Duck 

 . Mallard 



. Blue-winged Teal 

 . ('innamon Teal 

 . Northern Shoveler 

 . Northern Pintail 

 . Garganey* 

 . Green-winged Teal 

 . Canvasback 



Redhead 



Ring-necked Duck 



Greater Scaup 



Lesser Scaup 



Harlequin Duck 



Surf Scoter 



White-winged Scoter 



Black Scoter* 



Long-tailed Duck 



_ Buftlehead 



Common Goldeneye 



Barrow's Goldeneye 



Hocxied Merganser 



Common Merganser 



Red- breasted Merganser 



_ Ruddy Duck 



Osprey 



Mississippi Kite* 



_ Bald Eagle 



Northern Harrier 



Sharp-shinned Hawk 



Cooper's Hawk 



Northern Goshawk 



Red-shouldered Hawk* 



Broad-winged Hawk 



Swainson's Hawk 



_ Red-tailed Hawk 



Ferruginous Hawk 



Rough-legged Hawk 



Golden Eagle 



American Kestrel 



Merlin 



Gyrfalcon 



Peregine Falcon 



Prairie Falcon 



Chukar 



Gray Partridge 



Ring-necked Pheasant 



Ruffed Grouse 



Greater Sage-Grouse 



Spruce Grouse 



Willow Ptarmigan* 



White-tailed Ptarmigan 



Blue Grouse 



Sharp-tailed Grouse 



Greater Prairie-C^hicken* 



_ Wild Turkey 

 _ Yellow Rail* 



.Virginia R^iil 



. Sora 



, Common Moorhen* 



. American Coot 



. Sandhill Crane 



Whooping Crane 

 . Black- bellied Plover 

 _ American Golden -Plover 

 _ Snowy Pk)ver* 

 _ Semipalmated Plover 

 _ Piping Plover 

 . iMlldeer 



_ Mountain Plover 

 _ Black-necked Stilt 

 _ American Avocet 

 . Greater Yellowlegs 

 . Lesser Yellowlegs 

 . Solitary Sandpiper 

 . Willet 



_ Spotted Sandpiper 

 _ Uplancl Sandpiper 

 _ Whimbrel 

 _ Long-billed Curlew 

 _ Hudsonian Godwit* 

 _ Marbled Ciodwit 

 . Ruddy Turnstone 

 _ Black Turnstone* 

 _ Red Knot 

 _ Sanderling 



_ Semipalmatecf Sandpiper 

 . Western Sandpiper 

 . Least Sandpiper 

 . White-rumped Sandpiper 

 . Baird's Sandpiper 

 _ Pectoral Sandpiper 

 _ Sharp-tailed Sanclpiper* 

 _ Dunlin 



_ Curlew Sandpiper* 

 _ Stilt Sandpiper 

 _ Buff-breasted Sandpiper* 

 _ Short-billed Dowitchcr 

 _ Long-billed Dowitchcr 

 _ Wilson's Snipe 

 _ American Woodcock* 

 _ Wilson's Phalarope 

 . Red-necked Phalarope 

 . Red Phalarope* 



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