On May 15, 2010, sixty-three Gusties went birding. Many of these adventurers were located right here in Minnesota, but others were spread out throughout the country and still others were situated on different continents. Wherever they were, they compiled a list of the birds they saw on the first annual Gustavus Birding Big Day.
A very respectable total of 367 bird species was observed by participants across the globe, representing three continents (Africa, Europe, North America), three countries (Sweden, Tanzania, United States of America), eight U.S. States (California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin), and eighteen different locations in Minnesota. Below is the list of species observed in alphabetical order. Join us next year for the second annual Gustavus Birding Big Day on Saturday, May 14, 2011.
Abdim’s Stork
Abyss White-eye
Acadian Flycatcher
African Grey Hornbill
African Hawk Eagle
African Hoopoe
African Jacana
African Pied Wagtail
African Sand Martin
African Silverbill
African Spoonbill
African Water Rail
Alder Flycatcher
American Avocet
American Bittern
American Coot
American Crow
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Pipit
American Redstart
American Robin
American White Pelican
Anna’s Hummingbird
Bald Eagle
Baltimore Oriole
Banded Parisoma
Bank Swallow
Bare-eyed Thrush
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Barred Owl
Beautiful Sunbird
Bell’s Vireo
Belted Kingfisher
Black Bishop
Black Crake
Black Heron
Black Phoebe
Black Tern
Black Vulture
Black-and-white Warbler
Black-backed Puffback
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Social Weaver
Black-cheeked Waxbill
Black-faced Sandgrouse
Black-headed Heron
Black-necked Grebe
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-shouldered Kite
Blacksmith Plover
Black-throated Barbet
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-winged Stilt
Blue Grosbeak
Blue Jay
Blue Tit
Blue-capped Cordonbleu
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue-naped Mousebird
Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged Warbler
Bobolink
Brant
Brewer’s Blackbird
Broad-winged Hawk
Brown Pelican
Brown Thrasher
Brown-breasted Barbet
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brubru
California Gull
California Quail
California Towhee
Canada Goose
Cape May Warbler
Cardinal Quelea
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Cassin’s Finch
Cattle Egret
Cedar Waxwing
Cerulean Warbler
Chaffinch
Chestnut Sparrow
Chestnut Weaver
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chimney Swift
Chipping Sparrow
Chukar
Cliff Swallow
Common Bulbul
Common Grackle
Common Loon
Common Magpie
Common Moorhen
Common Nighthawk
Common Yellowthroat
Cooper’s Hawk
Crested Francolin
Crimson-rumped Waxbill
Crowned Plover
d-Arnaud’s Barbet
Double-crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Dwarf Bittern
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Kingbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Screech-Owl
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Egyptian Goose
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
European Blackbird
European Robin
European Starling
European White Stork
Fawn-colored Lark
Field Sparrow
Fiscal Shrike
Fischer Sparrowlark
Fischer’s Starling
Fish Eagle
Fork-tailed Drongo
Forster’s Tern
Franklin’s Gull
Fulvous Treeduck
Glossy Ibis
Golden-backed Weaver
Goliath Heron
Grasshopper Sparrow
Gray Catbird
Great Blue Heron
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Egret
Great Horned Owl
Great Tit
Great White Pelican
Green Heron
Green-backed Camaroptera
Green-backed Heron
Greenshank
Green-winged Pytilia
Grey Crowned Crane
Grey Flycatcher
Grey Heron
Grey Wren Warbler
Grey-headed Gull
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Grey-headed Silverbill
Grey-headed Sparrow
Gull-billed Tern
Hadada Ibis
Hairy Woodpecker
Hammerkop
Harris’s Sparrow
Hermit Thrush
Hildebrandt’s Francolin
Hildebrandt’s Starling
Hooded Merganser
Hooded Oriole
Horned Lark
Horus Swift
Hottentot Teal
House Finch
House Sparrow
House Wren
Hunter’s Sunbird
Indigo Bunting
Killdeer
Knob-billed Duck
Laughing Dove
Lazuli Bunting
Least Flycatcher
Lesser Goldfinch
Lesser Jacana
Lesser Masked Weaver
Lesser Scaup
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lilac-breasted Roller
Little Bee-eater
Little Blue Heron
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Little Sparrow Hawk
Little Swift
Long-tailed Cormorant
Long-tailed Fiscal
Long-toed Plover
Louisiana Waterthrush
Madagascar Bee-eater
Madagascar Squacco Heron
Magnolia Warbler
Malachite Kingfisher
Mallard
Marbled Godwit
Marico Sunbird
Marsh Wren
Mourning Dove
Namaqua Dove
Nashville Warbler
Northern Bobwhite
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Parula
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Northern Shoveler
Northern Waterthrush
Nubian Woodpecker
Oak Titmouse
Orange-bellied Parrot
Orchard Oriole
Osprey
Ovenbird
Pale Chanting Goshawk
Palm Warbler
Paradise Flycatcher
Paradise Whydah
Pied Crow
Pied Kingfisher
Pied-billed Grebe
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Warbler
Pink-breasted Lark
Pin-tailed Whydah
Plain Martin
Prairie Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Purple Finch
Purple Gallinule
Purple Grenadier
Purple Martin
Pygmy Batis
Pygmy Nuthatch
Rattling Cisticola
Red-and-yellow Barbet
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-billed Buffalo Weaver
Red-billed Oxpecker
Red-billed Quelea
Red-billed Teal
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-chested Cuckoo
Red-eyed Dove
Red-eyed Vireo
Red-fronted Warbler
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-knobbed Coot
Red-necked Grebe
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-winged Blackbird
Red-winged Starling
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-necked Dove
Ring-necked Pheasant
Rock Pigeon
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rosy-patched Bush-Shrike
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Rufous-tailed Weaver
Ruppell’s Robin Chat
Sacred Ibis
Sand Martin
Sandhill Crane
Savannah Sparrow
Scaly Chatterer
Scarlet Tanager
Sedge Wren
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Slate-colored Boubou
Snowy Egret
Solitary Sandpiper
Song Sparrow
Sora
Southern Grosbeak Canary
Southern Pochard
Southern Red Bishop
Speckled Mousebird
Speckled Pigeon
Spotted Morning-Thrush
Spotted Sandpiper
Spur-winged Goose
Spur-winged Lapwing
Squacco Heron
Square-tailed Nightjar
Steel-blue Whydah
Straw-tailed Whydah
Striped Swallow
Sulphur-breasted Bush-Shrike
Superb Starling
Swainson’s Thrush
Swamp Sparrow
Taita Fiscal
Taveta Golden Weaver
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Temminck’s Courser
Tennessee Warbler
Three-banded Sand Plover
Tree Swallow
Trumpeter Swan
Tufted Titmouse
Turkey Vulture
Two-banded Courser
Variable Sunbird
Veery
Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
Vesper Sparrow
Virginia Rail
Vitelline Masked Weaver
Von der Decken’s Hornbill
Warbling Vireo
Wattled Starling
Western Bluebird
Western Scrub-Jay
Western Tanager
Whiskered Tern
White-backed Duck
White-bellied Canary
White-bellied Go-away Bird
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-browed Coucal
White-browed Scrub Robin
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
White-crowned Shrike
White-crowned Sparrow
White-eyed Vireo
White-faced Treeduck
White-headed Buffalo Weaver
White-headed Mousebird
White-rumped Swift
White-throated Sparrow
Wild Turkey
Willow Flycatcher
Winding Cisticola
Wire-tailed Swallow
Wood Duck
Wood Owl
Wood Thrush
Worm-eating Warbler
Yellow Bishop
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Yellow-billed Egret
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Yellow-breasted Chat
Yellow-collared Lovebird
Yellow-crowned Bishop
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Yellow-rumped Seedeater
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler