Black And White Birds In Montana
Wings are dark with two white bars.
Black and white birds in montana. American black duck 4. Upper neck and head are featherless and dark gray. Download the bird guide 238 kb. Montana species snapshot all montana bird species montana natural heritage program.
As of june 2020 there are 440 species included in the official list. The most common backyard birds throughout the year in the state of montana are these. Of them 99 are on the review list see below and eight have been introduced to north america. Download bird guide images 1 7 mb this pdf document contains a high resolution view of the images in the bird guide.
Legs and feet are gray black. American coot fulica americana. Alternates between strong wing beats and gliding. American robin 38 frequency black capped chickadee 30 northern flicker 29 european starling 25 house.
Be sure to download it and take it with you to help identify birds in the field. Marlene affeld for many years i believed that the black billed magpie was the montana state bird. However the opportunist and rather aggressive black billed magpie is an icon of the american west and a welcome resident of montana. The majority of the latest season records are for august although one record just south of ninepipe national wildlife refuge indicates an individual present in october montana bird distribution committee 2012.
Small warbler black marked slate gray upperparts black streaks on flanks white underparts. Head has black hood and throat sharply contrasting white eyebrow and cheek stripe and yellow spot in front of eye. The black billed magpie pica hudsonia also known as the american magpie is a bird in the crow family that inhabits the western half of north america from colorado to southern coastal alaska to central oregon to northern california northern nevada northern arizona northern new mexico central kansas and nebraska it is black and white with black areas on the wings and tail showing. The bill is thick long and curved downward.
An additional 10 species are on a separate supplemental list. Black bill legs feet. This list of birds of montana includes species documented in the u s. I was wrong our state bird is the meadow lark.
State of montana and accepted by the montana bird records committee mbrc. Soars on thermals and updrafts.