Review List (Rare Birds)

The following 104 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

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
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (no report needed east of the Continental Divide)
Anna’s Hummingbird  (no report needed west of 111°W)
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-tailed 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
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  (no report needed for LLs 9, 10, 11, 12)
White-headed Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  (no report needed for LLs 10-12)
Vermilion Flycatcher
White-eyed Vireo
Bell’s Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo  (no report needed for LLs 5-8 and east of 108°W)
Philadelphia Vireo  (no report needed east of the Continental Divide)
California Scrub-Jay
Bewick’s Wren (no report needed west of the Continental Divide)
Carolina Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren  (no report needed for QLL 9C and LL 12)
Gray-cheeked Thrush  (no report needed east of the Continental Divide)
Wood Thrush
Fieldfare
Curve-billed Thrasher
Siberian Accentor
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Brambling
Smith’s Longspur
Cassin's Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Sagebrush Sparrow  (no report needed for QLLs 36B, 36D, 37A, 37C, 41C)
Eastern Towhee
Eastern Meadowlark
Hooded Oriole
Scott's Oriole
Great-tailed Grackle  (no report needed east of the Continental Divide)
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler  (no report needed east of the Continental Divide)
Blackburnian Warbler  (no report needed east of the Continental Divide)
Pine Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler  (no report needed east of 108°W)
Painted Redstart
Pyrrhuloxia
Blue Grosbeak  (no report needed for LL 41)
Painted Bunting