Managing Habitat for Grassland Birds
A Guide for Wisconsin
Appendices
| APPENDIX A. Grassland birds and other birds
that use grassland habitats in Wisconsin.a |
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| I. Birds (105 species) that regularly or semi-regularly use grasslands and related open country habitats for some part of their breeding cycle. | |
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| American bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus |
| Cattle egret | Bubulcus ibis |
| Canada goose | Branta canadensis |
| Green-winged teal | Anas crecca |
| American black duck | Anas rubripes |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos |
| Northern pintail | Anas acuta |
| Blue-winged teal | Anas discor |
| Northern shoveler | Anas clypeata |
| Gadwall | Anas streper |
| American wigeon | Anas americana |
| Ring-necked duck | Aythya collaris |
| Lesser scaup | Aythya affinis |
| Turkey vulture | Cathartes aura |
| Northern harrier | Circus cyaneus |
| Red-tailed hawk | Buteo jamaicensis |
| American kestrel | Falco sparverius |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius |
| Gray partridge | Perdix perdix |
| Ring-necked pheasant | Phasianus colchicus |
| Greater prairie-chicken | Tympanuchus cupido |
| Sharp-tailed grouse | Tympanuchus phasianellus |
| Wild turkey | Meleagris gallopavo |
| Northern bobwhite | Colinus virginianus |
| Yellow rail | Coturnicops novaboracensis |
| King rail | Rallus elegans |
| Virginia rail | Rallus limicola |
| Sora | Porzana Carolina |
| Sandhill crane | Grus canadensis |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferous |
| Spotted sandpiper | Actitis macularia |
| Upland sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda |
| Common snipe | Gallinago gallinago |
| American woodcock | Scolopax minor |
| Wilson's phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor |
| Ring-billed gull | Larus delawarensis |
| Herring gull | Larus argentatus |
| Rock dove | Columba livia |
| Mourning dove | Zenaida macroura |
| Barn owl | Tyto alba |
| Great horned owl | Bubo virginianus |
| Short-eared owl | Asio flammeus |
| Common nighthawk | Chordeiles minor |
| Ruby-throated hummingbird | Archilochus colubris |
| Red-headed woodpecker | Melanerpes erythrocephalus |
| Downy woodpecker | Picoides pubescens |
| Northern flicker | Colaptes auratus |
| Alder flycatcher | Empidonax alnorum |
| Willow flycatcher | Empidonax traillii |
| Eastern phoebe | Sayornis phoebe |
| Western kingbird | Tyrannus verticalis |
| Eastern kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus |
| Horned lark | Eremophila alpestris |
| Purple martin | Progne subis |
| Tree swallow | Tachycineta bicolor |
| Northern rough-winged swallow | Stelgidopteryx serripennis |
| Bank swallow | Riparia riparia |
| Cliff swallow | Hirundo pyrrhonota |
| Barn swallow | Hirundo rustica |
| Blue jay | Cyanocitta cristata |
| American crow | Corvus brachyrhynchos |
| Common raven | Corvus corax |
| Black-capped chickadee | Parus atricapillus |
| House wren | Troglodytes aedon |
| Sedge wren | Cistothorus platensis |
| Eastern bluebird | Sialia sialis |
| American robin | Turdus migratorius |
| Gray catbird | Dumetella carolinensis |
| Brown thrasher | Toxostoma rufum |
| Cedar waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum |
| Loggerhead shrike | Lanius ludovicianus |
| European starling | Sturnus vulgaris |
| Bell's vireo | Vireo bellii |
| Yellow warbler | Dendroica petechia |
| Common yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas |
| Yellow-breasted chat | Icteria virens |
| Northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis |
| Indigo bunting | Passerina cyanea |
| Dickcissel | Spiza americana |
| Eastern towhee | Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
| Chipping sparrow | Spizella passerina |
| Clay-colored sparrow | Spizella pallida |
| Field sparrow | Spizella pusilla |
| Vesper sparrow | Pooecetes gramineus |
| Lark sparrow | Chondestes grammacus |
| Savannah sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis |
| Grasshopper sparrow | Ammodramus savannarum |
| Henslow's sparrow | Ammodramus henslowii |
| Le Conte's sparrow | Ammodramus leconteii |
| Nelson's sharp-tailed sparrow | Ammodramus nelsoni |
| Song sparrow | Melospiza melodia |
| Lincoln's sparrow | Melospiza lincolnii |
| Swamp sparrow | Melospiza georgiana |
| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus |
| Red-winged blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus |
| Eastern meadowlark | Sturnella magna |
| Western meadowlark | Sturnella neglecta |
| Yellow-headed blackbird | Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus |
| Brewer's blackbird | Euphagus cyanocephalus |
| Common grackle | Quiscalus quiscula |
| Brown-headed cowbird | Molothrus ater |
| Orchard oriole | Icterus spurius |
| Baltimore oriole | Icterus galbula |
| American goldfinch | Carduelis tristis |
| House sparrow | Passer domesticus |
| II. Non-grassland species that are occasionally associated with grassland habitats. | |
| Common Name | Scientific Name |
| Least bittern | Ixobrychus exilis |
| Great blue heron | Ardea herodias |
| Green heron | Butorides virescens |
| Black tern | Chlidonias niger |
| Black-billed cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus |
| Eastern wood-pewee | Contopus virens |
| Least flycatcher | Empidonax minimus |
| Great-crested flycatcher | Myiarchus crinitus |
| White-breasted nuthatch | Sitfa carolinensis |
| Marsh wren | Cistothorus palustris |
| Veery | Catharus fuscescens |
| Warbling vireo | Vireo gilvus |
| Blue-winged warbler | Certhia pinus |
| Nashville warbler | Vermivora ruficapilla |
| Chestnut-sided warbler | Dendroica pensylvanica |
| Rose-breasted grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus |
| a Species are listed in taxonomic order, following the 6th edition of the American Ornithologists' (AOU) Union check-list of North American birds (AOU 1983) and the 40th supplement to the AOU check-list (AOU 1995). | |
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