Birds around Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Every measure here is worked out per 5 degree square, so this covers the wider area around Minneapolis (40° to 45° latitude, -95° to -90° longitude, about 550 km across), not the city alone. Counts are shares of all birds records in the same weeks, so busier stations do not inflate them (methods).

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Arrived in the last four weeks

Common Redpoll around 12 October
American Wigeon around 12 October
Northern Saw-Whet Owl around 5 October
Great Egret around 5 October
Rusty Blackbird around 5 October
Dark-eyed Junco around 5 October

Expected in the next six weeks

No arrivals expected here in the next six weeks, going by last year.

Dates are last year's first regular records after at least six weeks away, with each species' own uncertainty on its page. Each species page can email you when it turns up.

Most recorded, last eight weeks

Species	Records	Per 1,000
Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata	1,474,301	154.4
Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus	907,525	95.1
Black-Capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus	653,956	68.5
Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens	597,700	62.6
White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis	593,938	62.2
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis	593,212	62.1
Hairy Woodpecker Dryobates villosus	570,435	59.7
White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis	549,159	57.5
American Goldfinch Spinus tristis	406,139	42.5
House Sparrow Passer domesticus	385,871	40.4
House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus	373,659	39.1
Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum	278,825	29.2
American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos	252,820	26.5
Golden-crowned Kinglet Regulus satrapa	234,689	24.6
Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula	213,401	22.4

How well this area is covered

Watched in 12 of the last 12 weeks for birds (enough records to count; unwatched weeks say nothing about absence). Active stations here in the last 30 days: 88 BirdWeather. Add a station to fill the gap.