Birds at Risk
Conservation Assessments by the US Forest Service are available on many birds.
| Bird | Preferred Habitat |
Northern Goshawk |
mature to old deciduous-dominated mixed wood stands, with well developed canopies and open understories |
| Boreal Owl | mixture of mature spruce-fir stands, deciduous stands and clearings |
| Le Conte's Sparrow | moist grassland and wet meadow |
| Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow | marshes with dense emergent vegetation, or damp areas with dense grasses |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | mature hardwood forests |
| Black Tern | shallow, freshwater wetlands in emergent vegetation. Most nests are in semipermenent wetlands, in open or forested country, seem to prefer marshes or complexes greater than 20 ha |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | montane and northern coniferous forests, usually at mid- to high-elevations, most associated with forest oopenings and edges |
| Yellow Rail | wet meadows, fens, boggy swales, floodplians, montane meadows, and emergent vegetation in fresh and brackish wetlands |
| Trumpeter Swan | wetland areas associated with rivers, lakes, ponds, and marshes; open wooded regions; and prairies |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | mature sugar maple forests |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | northern coniferous forests or mixed forests, favoring young spruce and fir |
| Spruce Grouse | spruce-balsam swamps |
| American Peregrine Falcon | |
| Connecticut Warbler | mature black spruce-tamarack bogs, jack pine barrens with thick shrub understory |
| Wilson's Phalarope | fresh and alkali wetlands with open water, emergent vegetation, and open shoreline |
| Black-backed Woodpecker | boreal forests especially where recent fire or windstorm |
| Three-toed Woodpecker | spruce/fir |
| Caspian Tern | only suitable is on barren Leech Lake island |
| Common Tern | sparsely vegetated sand and gravel beaches of islands and peninsulas |
| Great Gray Owl | nesting habitat usually includes copses or islands of aspens within pure stands of conifers. Most foraging is done in open areas such as swamps, bogs, and forest clearings where there are scatttered trees and shurbs that can be used as perches |
| Sharp-tailed Grouse | open grass-brushland, savanna, and open boreal peatlands |