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The common loon is the state bird of Minnesota. This list of birds of Minnesota includes species documented in the U.S. state of Minnesota and accepted by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (MOURC). As of October 2020, there are 446 species included in the official list.
The Minnesota Iceman is a sideshow exhibit and elaborate hoax that depicts a fake man-like creature frozen in a block of ice. It was displayed at shopping malls , state fairs , and carnivals in the United States and Canada in the 1960s and early 1970s and promoted as the " missing link " between Modern man and Neanderthals .
Edmondson's photographs are widely published in bird encyclopedias and natural history field guides worldwide, including dozens of images in Bird: The Definitive Visual Guide by Audubon (DK Publishing) as well as in the American Museum of Natural History: Pocket Birds series, field guides by Stan Tekiela, and many other books.
Over 250 bird species have been observed in the refuge. The site represents an important migration stopover at the edge of the Mississippi and Central flyways. Audubon Minnesota includes the refuge in its Lac qui Parle-Big Stone Important Bird Area (IBA). [3] In the spring, upwards of 75,000 ducks and 84,000 geese have been counted.
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The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.
Bird flu has jumped to cattle for the first time in the U.S., and recently infected a dairy worker in Texas. Agriculture officials in Minnesota are watching closely for infections in the state's ...
The greater prairie-chicken or pinnated grouse (Tympanuchus cupido), sometimes called a boomer, [2] is a large bird in the grouse family.This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare and extirpated over much of its range due to habitat loss. [2]