Breeding Species List, Safe Dates, and Special Species • This list includes species that regularly, rarely, or hypothetically could breed in South Dakota. • On the Block Visit data sheet, only report observations of species from this list and within a species' safe date. • Please submit an SDOU Rare Bird Report for all species with CAPITALIZED names.
Common Name Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Wood Duck Mallard Northern Pintail Common Merganser Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead HOODED MERGANSER Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup BUFFLEHEAD COMMON GOLDENEYE Gray Partridge Ring-necked Pheasant Ruffed Grouse Greater Sage-Grouse Sharp-tailed Grouse Greater Prairie-Chicken Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite COMMON LOON Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe
AOU Code Safe Dates CAGO TRUS WODU MALL NOPI COME GADW AMWI ABDU BWTE CITE NSHO AGWT CANV REDH HOME RUDU RNDU LESC BUFF COGO GRPA RINP RUGR GRSG STGR GRPC WITU NOBO COLO PBGR HOGR
4/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/1/ - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31
Common Name 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 Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron TRICOLORED HERON Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON GLOSSY IBIS White-faced Ibis Turkey Vulture Osprey 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 Golden Eagle
AOU Code
Safe Dates
RNGR EAGR WEGR CLGR AWPE DCCO AMBI LEBI GBHE GREG SNEG LBHE TRHE CAEG GRHE BCNH YCNH GLIB WFIB TUVU OSPR BAEA NOHA SSHA COHA NOGO RSHA BWHA SWHA RTHA FEHA GOEA
5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1/ - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31
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Common Name American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon YELLOW RAIL KING RAIL Virginia Rail Sora COMMON MOORHEN American Coot SNOWY PLOVER Piping Plover Killdeer MOUNTAIN PLOVER BLACK-NECKED STILT American Avocet Willet Spotted Sandpiper Upland Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Wilson's Phalarope Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull HERRING GULL CASPIAN TERN Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Black Tern Rock Pigeon BAND-TAILED PIGEON Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl
AOU Code Safe Dates AMKE MERL PEFA PRFA YERA KIRA VIRA SORA COMO AMCO SNPL PIPL KILL MOUP BNST AMAV WILL SPSA UPSA LBCU MAGO WISN AMWO WIPH FRGU RBGU CAGU HERG CATE COTE FOTE LETE BLTE ROPI BTPI EUCD MODO BBCU YBCU BNOW EASO
4/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 8/31 6/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 8/31 4/15 - 8/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 9/30 3/1 - 7/31
Common Name Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl BARRED OWL Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Common Nighthawk Common Poorwill CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift White-throated Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird BROAD-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD Belted Kingfisher Lewis's Woodpecker Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-naped Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker American Three-toed Woodpecker Black-backed Woodpecker Northern Flicker - Red-shafted Northern Flicker - Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker - hybrid Pileated Woodpecker OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER Western Wood-Pewee Eastern Wood-Pewee ALDER FLYCATCHER Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER Dusky Flycatcher Cordilleran Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher CASSIN'S KINGBIRD
AOU Code
Safe Dates
GHOW BUOW BDOW LEOW SEOW NSWO CONI COPO CWWI WPWI CHSW WTSW RTHU BTLH BEKI LEWO RHWO RBWO YBSA RNSA DOWO HAWO ATTW BBWO RSFL YSFL XFL PIWO OSFL WEWP EAWP ALFL WIFL LEFL HAFL DUFL COFL EAPH SAPH GCFL CAKI
2/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/15 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/5 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31
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Common Name Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER Loggerhead Shrike WHITE-EYED VIREO Bell's Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Plumbeous Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Gray Jay Blue Jay Pinyon Jay Clark's Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie American Crow COMMON RAVEN Horned Lark Purple Martin Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE TUFTED TITMOUSE Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper Rock Wren Canyon Wren BEWICK'S WREN House Wren WINTER WREN Sedge Wren Marsh Wren American Dipper
AOU Code Safe Dates WEKI EAKI STFL LOSH WEVI BEVI YTVI PLVI WAVI REVI GRAJ BLJA PIJA CLNU BBMA AMCR CORA HOLA PUMA TRES VGSW NRWS BANS CLSW BARS BCCH MOCH ETTI RBNU WBNU PYNU BRCR ROWR CANW BEWR HOWR WIWR SEWR MAWR AMDI
5/20 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 4/1 - 7/31
Common Name Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Veery Swainson's Thrush HERMIT THRUSH Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Brown Thrasher European Starling Sprague's Pipit Cedar Waxwing BLUE-WINGED WARBLER GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER NASHVILLE WARBLER Virginia's Warbler NORTHERN PARULA Yellow Warbler CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER Yellow-rumped Warbler PRAIRIE WARBLER CERULEAN WARBLER Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart PROTHONOTARY WARBLER Ovenbird KENTUCKY WARBLER MacGillivray's Warbler Common Yellowthroat HOODED WARBLER Yellow-breasted Chat SUMMER TANAGER Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager
AOU Code
Safe Dates
GCKI RCKI BGGN EABL MOBL TOSO VEER SWTH HETH WOTH AMRO GRCA NOMO SATH BRTH EUST SPPI CEDW BWWA GWWA NAWA VIWA NOPA YWAR CSWA YRWA PRAW CERW BAWW AMRE PROW OVEN KEWA MGWA COYE HOWA YBCH SUTA SCTA WETA
5/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 6/10 - 7/31 6/10 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 3
Common Name GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE Spotted Towhee Eastern Towhee CASSIN'S SPARROW Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow SAGE SPARROW Lark Bunting Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Baird's Sparrow HENSLOW'S SPARROW Le Conte's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Dark-eyed (White-winged) Junco MCCOWN'S LONGSPUR Chestnut-collared Longspur Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Hybrid Black-headed x Rosebreasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Indigo Bunting Hybrid Lazuli x Indigo Bunting Dickcissel Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle
AOU Code Safe Dates GTTO SPTO EATO CASP CHSP CCSP BRSP FISP VESP LASP SAGS LARB SAVS GRSP BAIS HESP LCSP NSTS SOSP SWSP WWJU MCLO CCLO NOCA RBGR BHGR
5/25 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31
HGR
5/25 - 7/31
BLGR LAZB INBU HBU DICK BOBO RWBL EAME WEME YHBL BRBL COGR
6/1 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 6/1 - 7/31 5/20 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 7/31 4/15 - 8/5 5/15 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31
Common Name
AOU Code
Safe Dates
GTGR BHCO OROR BUOR BAOR HOR PIGR CAFI HOFI RECR WWCR PISI LEGO AMGO EVGR HOSP
5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/25 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/1 - 7/31 5/15 - 7/31 6/1 - 8/30 6/1 - 7/31 3/1 - 7/31
Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Bullock's Oriole Baltimore Oriole Hybrid - Baltimore x Bullock Oriole PINE GROSBEAK Cassin's Finch House Finch Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Pine Siskin LESSER GOLDFINCH American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow
Send data to: Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory 230 Cherry St., Suite 150 Fort Collins, CO 80521 OR email to :
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Species Monitored by the SD Natural Heritage Program Outside of blocks, record all Possible, Probable, or Confirmed breeding observations of these species on the Extra Observations Form. Horned Grebe Red-Necked Grebe Clark's Grebe American White Pelican Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Green-Backed Heron Black-Crowned Night-Heron Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron White-Faced Ibis Piping Plover Black-Necked Stilt California Gull Common Tern Interior Least Tern Black Tern Least Bittern Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Yellow Rail King Rail Osprey Bald Eagle
Sharp-Shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Broad-Winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Golden Eagle Merlin Peregrine Falcon Prairie Falcon Whooping Crane Mountain Plover Long-Billed Curlew American Woodcock Barn Owl Burrowing Owl Long-Eared Owl Northern Saw-Whet Owl Flammulated Owl Common Poorwill Chuck-will's-widow Whip-Poor-Will Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Lewis' Woodpecker Three-Toed Woodpecker Black-Backed Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker
Olive-Sided Flycatcher Cassin's Kingbird Clark's Nutcracker Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper American Dipper Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Veery Wood Thrush Northern Mockingbird Sage Thrasher Sprague's Pipit Yellow-Throated Vireo Black-And-White Warbler Cerulean Warbler Virginia's Warbler Scarlet Tanager Brewer's Sparrow Baird's Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Le Conte's Sparrow Sharp-Tailed Sparrow Mccown's Longspur Eastern Meadowlark Cassin's Finch
