Review List (Rare Birds)

The following 91 species are on the Official State List but are scarce enough (20 or fewer accepted records) to require that a rare bird report be submitted for any sighting EXCEPT for locations noted in parentheses for a particular species (QLL = quarter-latilong, LL = latilong). The MBRC reviews such records before they can be included in Montana Bird Distribution. Any species not on the Official State List also needs documentation. Species not previously documented in the state will be added to the list only if the MBRC accepts written accounts from two independent observers, or if the record is verified by a photograph or specimen. Please send your completed Rare Bird Report Form and supporting information (e.g., digital photos), if available, as an email attachment to Jeff Marks at jsmarks17@gmail.com.

Rare Bird Report Form

Tundra Bean-Goose
Brant
Baikal Teal
Garganey
Mexican Duck
Tufted Duck
Stejneger's Scoter
Willow Ptarmigan
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Inca Dove
Eastern/Mexican Whip-poor-will
Mexican Violetear
Rivoli’s Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Yellow Rail  (no report needed for LL 12)
Common Gallinule
Pacific Golden-Plover
Snowy Plover
Black Turnstone
Ruff
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Purple Sandpiper
American Woodcock
Wood Sandpiper
Pomarine Jaeger
Long-billed Murrelet
Ancient Murrelet
Black-legged Kittiwake
Ivory Gull
Little Gull
Ross's Gull
Laughing Gull
Heermann's Gull
Western Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Arctic Tern
Yellow-billed Loon
Manx Shearwater
Wood Stork
Neotropic Cormorant
Least Bittern
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Mississippi Kite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-bellied Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Vermilion Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Bell’s Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
California Scrub-Jay
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren
Wood Thrush
Fieldfare
Curve-billed Thrasher
Siberian Accentor
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
White Wagtail
Brambling
Smith’s Longspur
Cassin's Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Meadowlark
Hooded Oriole
Scott's Oriole
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Painted Redstart
Pyrrhuloxia
Painted Bunting