Overview
How to use this checklist
This checklist identifies the roughly 430 bird species that have been seen in South Dakota. A handful of species listed here are "hypothetical", birds that haven't yet been seen, but are likely to be seen at some point in the future. Note that an exact copy of this checklist is available as a printer-friendly PDF
Codes
Season and abundance codes
WWinter
MMigrant
SSummer
PPermanent Resident
(1)Common to abundant
(2)Uncommon
(3)Rare or accidental
(E)Likely extirpated in the state
Checklist
Complete bird species table
This version includes the full original checklist content, restyled for readability and easier scrolling.
| X | Species | Code | Notes | X | Species | Code | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ducks, Geese, and Swans (Anatidae) | ||||||||
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | (3) | Fulvous Whistling-Duck | (3) | |||||
| Greater White-fronted Goose | M (1) | Snow Goose | M (1) | |||||
| Ross's Goose | M (2) | Brant | M (3) | |||||
| Cackling Goose | MW (2) | Canada Goose | P (1) | |||||
| Mute Swan | P (3) | Trumpeter Swan | P (2) | |||||
| Tundra Swan | M (2) | Wood Duck | S (1) | |||||
| Gadwall | SM (1) | Eurasian Wigeon | (3) | |||||
| American Wigeon | SM (1) | American Black Duck | (3) | |||||
| Mallard | P (1) | Blue-winged Teal | SM (1) | |||||
| Cinnamon Teal | SM (3) | Northern Shoveler | SM (1) | |||||
| Northern Pintail | SM (1) | Green-winged Teal | SM (1) | |||||
| Canvasback | SM (1) | Redhead | SM(1) | |||||
| Ring-necked Duck | M (1) | Greater Scaup | M(3) | |||||
| Lesser Scaup | SM (1) | Common Eider | (3) | |||||
| Harlequin Duck | W (3) | Surf Scoter | M (3) | |||||
| White-winged Scoter | M (3) | Black Scoter | M (3) | |||||
| Long-tailed Duck | (3) | Bufflehead | M (1) | |||||
| Common Goldeneye | MW (1) | Barrow's Goldeneye | MW (3) | |||||
| Hooded Merganser | SM (2) | Common Merganser | MW (1) | |||||
| Red-breasted Merganser | M (2) | Ruddy Duck | SM (1) | |||||
| New World Quail (Odontophoridae) | ||||||||
| Northern Bobwhite | P (2) | |||||||
| Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, and Old World Quail (Phasianidae) | ||||||||
| Chukar | P (3) | Gray Partridge | P (2) | |||||
| Ring-necked Pheasant | P (1) | Ruffed Grouse | P (2) | |||||
| Greater Sage Grouse | P (2) | Dusky Grouse | P (E) | |||||
| Sharp-tailed Grouse | P (1) | Greater Prairie Chicken | P (2) | |||||
| Wild Turkey | P (1) | |||||||
| Loons (Gaviidae) | ||||||||
| Red-throated Loon | (3) | Pacific Loon | (3) | |||||
| Common Loon | M (2) | Yellow-billed Loon | (3) | |||||
| Grebes (Podicipedidae) | ||||||||
| Pied-billed Grebe | S (1) | Horned Grebe | SM (2) | |||||
| Eared Grebe | SM (1) | Red-necked Grebe | SM (3) | |||||
| Western Grebe | SM (1) | Clark's Grebe | (3) | |||||
| Storks (Ciconiidae) | ||||||||
| Wood Stork | (3) | |||||||
| Cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae) | ||||||||
| Neotropic Cormorant | (3) | Double-crested Cormorant | SM (1) | |||||
| Pelicans (Pelecanidae) | ||||||||
| American White Pelican | SM (1) | Brown Pelican | (3) | |||||
| Bitterns, Herons, and Allies (Ardeidae) | ||||||||
| American Bittern | S (2) | Least Bittern | SM (2) | |||||
| Great Blue Heron | SM (1) | Great Egret | SM (1) | |||||
| Snowy Egret | SM (2) | Little Blue Heron | SM (3) | |||||
| Tricolored Heron | (3) | Cattle Egret | SM (2) | |||||
| Green Heron | S (2) | Black-crowned Night Heron | SM (2) | |||||
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | (3) | |||||||
| Ibises and Spoonbills (Threskiomithidae) | ||||||||
| White Ibis | (3) | Glossy Ibis | (3) | |||||
| White-faced Ibis | SM (2) | |||||||
| New World Vultures (Cathartidae) | ||||||||
| Black Vulture | (3) | Turkey Vulture | S (1) | |||||
| Ospreys, Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies (Pandionidae and Accipitridae) | ||||||||
| Osprey | SM (2) | Swallow-tailed Kite | (3) | |||||
| White-tailed Kite | (3) | Mississippi Kite | (3) | |||||
| Bald Eagle | P (2) | Northern Harrier | P (2) | |||||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | P (2) | Cooper's Hawk | SM (2) | |||||
| Northern Goshawk | P (3) | Red-shouldered Hawk | (3) | |||||
| Broad-winged Hawk | SM (2) | Swainson's Hawk | SM (1) | |||||
| Red-tailed Hawk | P (1) | Ferruginous Hawk | P (2) | |||||
| Rough-legged Hawk | W (1) | Golden Eagle | (P (2) | |||||
| Caracaras and Falcons (Falconidae) | ||||||||
| Crested Caracara | (3) | American Kestrel | P (1) | |||||
| Merlin | P (2) | Gyrfalcon | W (3) | |||||
| Peregrine Falcon | M (2) | Prairie Falcon | P (2) | |||||
| Rails, Gallinules, and Coots (Rallidae) | ||||||||
| Yellow Rail | SM (3) | Black Rail | (3) | |||||
| King Rail | SM (3) | Virginia Rail | SM (1) | |||||
| Sora | SM (1) | Purple Gallinule | (3) | |||||
| Common Gallinule | S (3) | American Coot | SM (1) | |||||
| Cranes (Gruidae) | ||||||||
| Sandhill Crane | M (1) | Whooping Crane | M (3) | |||||
| Lapwings and Plvoers (Charadriidae) | ||||||||
| Black-bellied Plover | M (2) | American Golden Plover | M (2) | |||||
| Snowy Plover | S (3) | Semipalmated Plover | M (2) | |||||
| Piping Plover | SM (3) | Mountain Plover | S (3) | |||||
| Killdeer | SM (1) | |||||||
| Stilts and Avocets (Recurvirostridae) | ||||||||
| Black-necked Stilt | SM (3) | American Avocet | SM (1) | |||||
| Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies (Scolopacidae) | ||||||||
| Spotted Sandpiper | SM (1) | Solitary Sandpiper | M (2) | |||||
| Greater Yellowlegs | M (1) | Lesser Yellowlegs | M (1) | |||||
| Willet | SM (2) | Upland Sandpiper | S (1) | |||||
| Eskimo Curlew | (E) | Whimbrel | M (3) | |||||
| Long-billed Curlew | SM (2) | Hudsonian Godwit | M (2) | |||||
| Marbled Godwit | SM (2) | Ruddy Turnstone | M (3) | |||||
| Red Knot | M (3) | Sanderling | M (2) | |||||
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | M (1) | Western Sandpiper | M (3) | |||||
| Least Sandpiper | M (1) | White-rumped Sandpiper | M (1) | |||||
| Baird's Sandpiper | M (1) | Pectoral Sandpiper | M (1) | |||||
| Dunlin | M (1) | Stilt Sandpiper | M (1) | |||||
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | M (3) | Ruff | M (3) | |||||
| Short-billed Dowitcher | M (2) | Long-billed Dowitcher | M (1) | |||||
| Wilson's Snipe | SM (1) | American Woodcock | SM (2) | |||||
| Wilson's Phalarope | SM (1) | Red-necked Phalarope | M (2) | |||||
| Red Phalarope | M (3) | |||||||
| Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers (Laridae) | ||||||||
| Black-legged Kittiwake | MW(3) | Ivory Gull | (3) | |||||
| Sabine's Gull | (3) | Bonaparte's Gull | M (1) | |||||
| Little Gull | (3) | Ross's Gull | (3) | |||||
| Laughing Gull | (3) | Franklin's Gull | SM (1) | |||||
| Mew Gull | (3) | Ring-billed Gull | P (1) | |||||
| California Gull | SM (3) | Herring Gull | SMW (2) | |||||
| Thayer's Gull | MW (3) | Iceland Gull | (3) | |||||
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | (3) | Glaucous-winged Gull | (3) | |||||
| Glaucous Gull | MW (3) | Great Black-backed Gull | (3) | |||||
| Least Tern | SM (3) | Caspian Tern | SM (3) | |||||
| Black Tern | S (3) | Common Tern | SM (2) | |||||
| Arctic Tern | (3) | Forster's Tern | SM (1) | |||||
| Skuas and Jaegers (Stercorariidae) and Auks (Alcidae) | ||||||||
| Pomarine Jaeger | (3) | Parasitic Jaeger | (3) | |||||
| Long-tailed Jaeger | (3) | Ancient Murrelet | (3) | |||||
| Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae) | ||||||||
| Rock Pigeon | P (1) | Band-tailed Pigeon | (3) | |||||
| Eurasian Collared Dove | P (1) | White-winged Dove | (3) | |||||
| Mourning Dove | P (1) | Passenger Pigeon | (E) | |||||
| Inca Dove | (3) | Common Ground-Dove | (3) | |||||
| Lories, Parakeets, Macaws, and Parrots (Psittacidae) | ||||||||
| Carolina Parakeet | (E) | |||||||
| Cuckoos, Roadrunners, and Anis (Cuculidae) | ||||||||
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | S (2) | Black-billed Cuckoo | S (2) | |||||
| Groove-billed Ani | (3) | |||||||
| Barn Owls and Typical Owls (Tytonidae and Strigidae) | ||||||||
| Barn Owl | S (2) | Flammulated Owl | (3) | |||||
| Eastern Screech Owl | P (1) | Great Horned Owl | P (1) | |||||
| Snowy Owl | W (3) | Northern Hawk Owl | (3) | |||||
| Burrowing Owl | S (2) | Barred Owl | P (3) | |||||
| Great Gray Owl | (3) | Long-eared Owl | P (2) | |||||
| Short-eared Owl | P (2) | Boreal Owl | (3) | |||||
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | P (2) | |||||||
| Goatsuckers (Caprimulgidae) | ||||||||
| Common Nighthawk | S (1) | Common Poorwill | S (2) | |||||
| Chuck-will's Widow | S (3) | Eastern Whip-poor-will | S (2) | |||||
| Swifts (Apodidae) | ||||||||
| Chimney Swift | S (1) | White-throated Swift | S (2) | |||||
| Hummingbirds (Trochilidae) | ||||||||
| Magnificent Hummingbird | (3) | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | S (2) | |||||
| Anna's Hummingbird | (3) | Costa's Hummingbird | (3) | |||||
| Calliope Hummingbird | (3) | Broad-tailed Hummingbird | S (3) | |||||
| Rufous Hummingbird | (3) | |||||||
| Kingfishers (Alcedinidae) | ||||||||
| Belted Kingfisher | P (1) | |||||||
| Woodpeckers and Allies (Picidae) | ||||||||
| Lewis's Woodpecker | P (2) | Red-headed Woodpecker | S (1) | |||||
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | P (2) | Williamson's Sapsucker | (3) | |||||
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | S (1) | Red-naped Sapsucker | S (2) | |||||
| Downy Woodpecker | P (1) | Hairy Woodpecker | P (2) | |||||
| American Three-toed Woodpecker | P (3) | Black-backed Woodpecker | P (3) | |||||
| Northern Flicker | P (1) | Pileated Woodpecker | P (3) | |||||
| Tyrant Flycatchers (Tyrannidae) | ||||||||
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | M (3) | Western Wood-pewee | S (1) | |||||
| Eastern Wood-pewee | S (1) | Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | M (3) | |||||
| Acadian Flycatcher | (3) | Alder Flycatcher | M (2) | |||||
| Willow Flycatcher | S (2) | Least Flycatcher | SM (1) | |||||
| Hammond's Flycatcher | (3) | Dusky Flycatcher | S (1) | |||||
| Cordilleran Flycatcher | S (2) | Eastern Phoebe | S (2) | |||||
| Say's Phoebe | S (1) | Vermilion Flycatcher | (3) | |||||
| Great Crested Flycatcher | S (1) | Great Kiskadee | (3) | |||||
| Cassin's Kingbird | S (3) | Western Kingbird | S (1) | |||||
| Eastern Kingbird | S (1) | Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | (3) | |||||
| Shrikes (Laniidae) | ||||||||
| Loggerhead Shrike | S (2) | Northern Shrike | W (2) | |||||
| Vireos (Vireonidae) | ||||||||
| White-eyed Vireo | M (3) | Bell's Vireo | SM (1) | |||||
| Yellow-throated Vireo | SM (2) | Plumbeous Vireo | SM (2) | |||||
| Blue-headed Vireo | M (2) | Warbling Vireo | S (1) | |||||
| Philadelphia Vireo | M (3) | Red-eyed Vireo | S (1) | |||||
| Jays and Crows (Corvidae) | ||||||||
| Gray Jay | P (2) | Pinyon Jay | P (2) | |||||
| Steller's Jay | (3) | Blue Jay | P (1) | |||||
| Clark's Nutcracker | P (3) | Black-billed Magpie | P (2) | |||||
| American Crow | P (1) | Common Raven | (3) | |||||
| Larks (Alaudidae) | ||||||||
| Horned Lark | P (1) | |||||||
| Swallows (Hirundinidae) | ||||||||
| Purple Martin | S (1) | Tree Swallow | S (1) | |||||
| Violet-green Swallow | S (1) | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | S (1) | |||||
| Bank Swallow | S (1) | Cliff Swallow | S (1) | |||||
| Barn Swallow | S (1) | |||||||
| Chickadees and Titmice (Paridae) | ||||||||
| Black-capped Chickadee | P (1) | Mountain Chickadee | (3) | |||||
| Boreal Chickadee | (3) | Tufted Titmouse | S (3) | |||||
| Nuthatches (Sittidae) and Creepers (Certhiidae) | ||||||||
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | P (1) | White-breasted Nuthatch | P (1) | |||||
| Pygmy Nuthatch | P (3) | Brown Creeper | P (2) | |||||
| Wrens (Troglodytidae) and Gnatcatchers (Polioptillidae) | ||||||||
| Rock Wren | S (1) | Canyon Wren | P (3) | |||||
| Carolina Wren | (3) | Bewick's Wren | (3) | |||||
| House Wren | S (1) | Pacific Wren | (3) | |||||
| Winter Wren | W (3) | Sedge Wren | S (1) | |||||
| Marsh Wren | S (1) | Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | S (2) | |||||
| Dippers (Cinclidae) | ||||||||
| American Dipper | P (2) | |||||||
| Kinglets (Regulidae) | ||||||||
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | MW (1) | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | PM (1) | |||||
| Thrushes (Turdidae) | ||||||||
| Eastern Bluebird | S (1) | Western Bluebird | (3) | |||||
| Mountain Bluebird | S (1) | Townsend's Solitaire | P (2) | |||||
| Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush | (3) | Veery | S (2) | |||||
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | M (2) | Swainson's Thrush | M (1) | |||||
| Hermit Thrush | M (2) | Wood Thrush | SM (2) | |||||
| American Robin | P (1) | Varied Thrush | (3) | |||||
| Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae), and Starlings (Sturnidae) | ||||||||
| Gray Catbird | S (1) | Northern Mockingbird | S (2) | |||||
| Sage Thrasher | S (2) | Brown Thrasher | S (1) | |||||
| Curve-billed Thrasher | (3) | European Starling | P (1) | |||||
| Wagtails and Pipits (Motacillidae), and Waxwings (Bombycillidae) | ||||||||
| American Pipit | M (1) | Sprauge's Pipit | SM (2) | |||||
| Cedar Waxwing | P (1) | Bohemian Waxwing | W (2) | |||||
| Longspurs and Snow Buntings (Calcariidae) | ||||||||
| Lapland Longspur | W (1) | Chestnut-collared Longspur | S (1) | |||||
| Smith's Longspur | M (3) | McCown's Longspur | SM (3) | |||||
| Snow Bunting | W (1) | |||||||
| Wood-Warblers (Parulidae) | ||||||||
| Blue-winged Warbler | SM (3) | Golden-winged Warbler | M (3) | |||||
| Tennessee Warbler | M (1) | Orange-crowned Warbler | M (1) | |||||
| Nashville Warbler | M (2) | Virginia's Warbler | S (3) | |||||
| Northern Parula | M (3) | Yellow Warbler | S (1) | |||||
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | M (2) | Magnolia Warbler | M (1) | |||||
| Cape May Warbler | M (1) | Black-throated Blue Warbler | M (3) | |||||
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | SM (1) | Black-throated Gray Warbler | M (3) | |||||
| Black-throated Green Warbler | M (2) | Townsend's Warbler | M (3) | |||||
| Blackburnian Warbler | M (2) | Pine Warbler | M (3) | |||||
| Prairie Warbler | SM (3) | Palm Warbler | M (2) | |||||
| Bay-breasted Warbler | M (2) | Blackpoll Warbler | M (1) | |||||
| Cerulean Warbler | SM (3) | Black-and-White Warbler | SM (1) | |||||
| American Redstart | SM (1) | Prothonotary Warbler | M (3) | |||||
| Worm-eating Warbler | M (3) | Ovenbird | S (1) | |||||
| Northern Waterthrush | M (2) | Louisiana Waterthrush | M (3) | |||||
| Kentucky Warbler | SM (3) | Connecticut Warbler | M (3) | |||||
| Mourning Warbler | M (2) | MacGillivray's Warbler | S (2) | |||||
| Common Yellowthroat | S (1) | Hooded Warbler | M (3) | |||||
| Wilson's Warbler | M (1) | Canada Warbler | M (2) | |||||
| Yellow-breasted Chat | S (2) | |||||||
| Towhees, Sparrows, and their Allies (Emberizidae) | ||||||||
| Green-tailed Towhee | (3) | Spotted Towhee | S (1) | |||||
| Eastern Towhee | S (2) | Cassin's Sparrow | (3) | |||||
| American Tree Sparrow | W (1) | Chipping Sparrow | S (1) | |||||
| Clay-colored Sparrow | SM (1) | Brewer's Sparrow | S (2) | |||||
| Field Sparrow | S (1) | Vesper Sparrow | S (1) | |||||
| Lark Sparrow | S (1) | Black-throated Sparrow | (3) | |||||
| Sage Sparrow | S (3) | Lark Bunting | S (1) | |||||
| Savannah Sparrow | S (1) | Grasshopper Sparrow | S (1) | |||||
| Baird's Sparrow | S (2) | Henslow's Sparrow | SM (3) | |||||
| Towhees, Sparrows, and their Allies (Emberizidae) - Continued | ||||||||
| Le Conte's Sparrow | SM (2) | Nelson's Sparrow | SM (3) | |||||
| Fox Sparrow | MW (2) | Song Sparrow | S (1) | |||||
| Lincoln's Sparrow | M (1) | Swamp Sparrow | S (2) | |||||
| White-throated Sparrow | M (1) | Harris's Sparrow | M (1) | |||||
| White-crowned Sparrow | M (1) | Golden-crowned Sparrow | (3) | |||||
| Dark-eyed Junco | W (1) | |||||||
| Cardinals, Piranga Tanagers, and Allies (Cardinialidae) | ||||||||
| Summer Tanager | SM (3) | Scarlet Tanager | S (2) | |||||
| Western Tanager | S (2) | Northern Cardinal | P (1) | |||||
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | S (1) | Black-headed Grosbeak | S (1) | |||||
| Blue Grosbeak | S (2) | Lazuli Bunting | S (2) | |||||
| Indigo Bunting | S (1) | Painted Bunting | (3) | |||||
| Dickcissel | S (1) | |||||||
| Blackbirds (Icteridae) | ||||||||
| Bobolink | S (1) | Red-winged Blackbird | P (1) | |||||
| Eastern Meadowlark | P (3) | Western Meadowlark | P (1) | |||||
| Yellow-headed Blackbird | S (1) | Rusty Blackbird | M (2) | |||||
| Brewer's Blackbird | S (1) | Common Grackle | S (1) | |||||
| Great-tailed Grackle | S (2) | Brown-headed Cowbird | S (1) | |||||
| Orchard Oriole | S (1) | Baltimore Oriole | S (1) | |||||
| Bullock's Oriole | S (2) | |||||||
| Fringilline and Careuline Finches and Allies (Fringillidae) | ||||||||
| Brambling | (3) | Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch | W (2) | |||||
| Pine Grosbeak | W (3) | Purple Finch | W (2) | |||||
| Cassin's Finch | P (2) | House Finch | P (1) | |||||
| Red Crossbill | P (1) | White-winged Crossbill | W (3) | |||||
| Common Redpoll | W (2) | Hoary Redpoll | W (3) | |||||
| Pine Siskin | PW (1) | Lesser Goldfinch | S (3) | |||||
| American Goldfinch | P (1) | Evening Grosbeak | P (2) | |||||
| Old World Sparrows (Passeridae) | ||||||||
| House Sparrow | P (1) | |||||||