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Common Birds In Decline Press Room:
State Specific Birds

Listed below are five birds of concern per state. Click a letter to jump to that group of state names involved, then click on the species name to download a high resolution photo.

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Arizona

  1. Black-throated Sparrow
  2. Common Nighthawk
  3. Loggerhead Shrike
  4. Verdin
  5. Phainopepla

Arkansas

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Eastern Meadowlark
  3. Field Sparrow
  4. Loggerhead Shrike
  5. Prothonotary Warbler

California

  1. Northern Pintail
  2. Horned Lark
  3. Loggerhead Shrike
  4. Lark Sparrow
  5. Evening Grosbeak

Colorado

  1. Evening Grosbeak
  2. Horned Lark
  3. Lark Bunting
  4. Western Meadowlark
  5. Northern Harrier

Connecticut

  1. Eastern Meadowlark
  2. Brown Thrasher
  3. Ruffed Grouse
  4. Prairie Warbler
  5. Baltimore Oriole

Florida

  1. Clapper Rail
  2. Black Skimmer
  3. Kestral
  4. Northern Bobwhite
  5. American Bittern

Georgia

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Eastern Meadowlark
  3. Common Grackle
  4. Grasshopper Sparrow
  5. Loggerhead Shrike

Illinois

  1. Eastern Meadowlark
  2. Bobolink
  3. Short-eared Owl
  4. Red-headed Woodpecker
  5. Field Sparrow

Indiana

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Whip-poor-will
  3. Red-headed Woodpecker
  4. Field Sparrow
  5. Grasshopper Sparrow

Louisiana

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Eastern Meadowlark
  3. King Rail
  4. Seaside Sparrow
  5. Northern Flicker

Maine

  1. Whip-poor-will
  2. Great Cormorant
  3. Chimney Swift
  4. Eastern Meadowlark
  5. Eastern Towhee

Maryland-DC

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Whip-poor-will
  3. Eastern Meadowlark
  4. Field Sparrow
  5. Grasshopper Sparrow

Michigan

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Red-headed Woodpecker
  3. Purple Martin
  4. Eastern Meadowlark
  5. Eastern Kingbird

Minnesota

  1. Meadowlark, Eastern and Western
  2. Red-headed Woodpecker
  3. Purple Martin
  4. Northern Pintail
  5. Indigo Bunting

Mississippi

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Red-winged Blackbird
  3. Wood Thrush
  4. Chimney Swift
  5. Little Blue Heron

Missouri

  1. Loggerhead Shrike
  2. Northern Bobwhite
  3. Eastern Meadowlark
  4. Whip-poor-will
  5. Northern Pintail

Montana

  1. Blue-winged Teal
  2. Great Blue Heron
  3. American Redstart
  4. Killdeer
  5. Belted Kingfisher

Nebraska

  1. Loggerhead Shrike
  2. Northern Bobwhite
  3. Field Sparrow
  4. Northern Pintail
  5. Eastern Meadowlark

Nevada

  1. Loggerhead Shrike
  2. Mountain Bluebird
  3. Rock Wren
  4. Sage Thrasher
  5. Brewer’s Sparrow

New Mexico

  1. Horned Lark
  2. Loggerhead Shrike
  3. Western Meadowlark
  4. Pinyon Jay
  5. Mountain Chickadee

New York

  1. Common Tern
  2. Eastern Meadowlark
  3. Ruffed Grouse
  4. Grasshopper Sparrow
  5. Field Sparrow

North Dakota

  1. Dickcissel
  2. Baird's Sparrow
  3. Red-headed Woodpecker
  4. Grasshopper Sparrow
  5. Loggerhead Shrike

North Carolina

  1. Common Tern
  2. Eastern Meadowlark
  3. Field Sparrow
  4. Loggerhead Shrike
  5. Northern Bobwhite

Ohio

  1. Green Heron
  2. Eastern Meadowlark
  3. Yellow-breasted chat
  4. Red-headed Woodpecker
  5. Northern Flicker

Pennsylvania

  1. Golden-winged Warbler
  2. Eastern Meadowlark
  3. Wood Thrush
  4. American Bittern
  5. Ruffed Grouse

South Carolina

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Field Sparrow
  3. Eastern Meadowlark
  4. Little Blue Heron
  5. Red-winged Blackbird
  6. Loggerhead Shrike

South Dakota

  1. Chestnut-collared Longspur
  2. Wilson's Phalarope
  3. Grasshopper Sparrow
  4. Northern Pintail
  5. Loggerhead Shrike

Texas

  1. Northern Pintail
  2. Lark Sparrow
  3. Northern Bobwhite
  4. Loggerhead Shrike
  5. Eastern Meadowlark
  6. Black-throated Sparrow
  7. American Bittern

Utah

  1. Sage Thrasher
  2. Western Scrub Jay
  3. Loggerhead Shrike
  4. Horned Lark
  5. Rough-legged Hawk

Vermont

  1. Eastern Meadowlark
  2. Purple Finch
  3. Hermit Thrush
  4. White-throated Sparrow
  5. Common Tern

Virginia

  1. Northern Bobwhite
  2. Loggerhead Shrike
  3. Eastern Meadowlark
  4. Field Sparrow
  5. Rusty Blackbird
  6. American Black Duck

Washington

  1. Evening Grosbeak
  2. Bonaparte's Gull
  3. Purple Finch
  4. Yellow-headed Blackbird
  5. Western Meadowlark

Wisconsin

  1. Eastern Meadowlark
  2. Field Sparrow
  3. Grasshopper Sparrow
  4. Whip-poor-will
  5. American Bittern

Wyoming

  1. Evening Grosbeak
  2. Loggerhead Shrike
  3. Grasshopper Sparrow
  4. American Bittern
  5. Ruffed Grouse