Region - The Mid Central region includes the southern prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, most of Montana, Minnesota and Nebraska and all of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa and only the northern portion of New Mexico.
This mid-continent region is known as the North American prairie and plains. The terrain is rolling-to-flat. Characteristic animal life is dominated by grazing and burrowing species. Today, there are only remnants of native grasslands, as most is under cultivation or used as open range for domestic stock. Ponds and pot-holes are numerous throughout the region. Overgrown weedy and brushy areas with scattered groves of deciduous trees are commonly found here.
Identification - There are 96 birds you can easily hear and identify in the Mid Central region. The following is a list, in the American Ornithologists' Union order, of these birds:
Pied-billed Grebe
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Trumpeter Swan
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
American Wigeon
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Northern Bobwhite
Virginia Rail
Sora
Killdeer
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Common Snipe
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Steller's Jay
Blue Jay
Scrub Jay
Clark's Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
American Dipper
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Scarlet Tanager
Western Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Rufous-sided Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole
Northern Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow
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