Midwest and Central Bird Species Guide
Use this guide to learn more about each of the 50 target bird species featured in the Midwest and Central Priority Breeding Bird Mapping Tool; species are categorized by habitat. Each species profile covers basic identification, range maps, habitat needs, conservation status, funding opportunities, and management guides.
Forest
Includes northern/boreal and mixed temperate forests—coniferous and deciduous. Eastern deciduous forest includes broadleaf and cone-bearing trees.
Black-billed Cuckoo
Canada Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Chuck-will’s-widow
Connecticut Warbler
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Evening Grosbeak
Kentucky Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Red-headed Woodpecker
Young Forest and Scrub/Shrub
Includes scrub/shrub, edge, open woods, and early-successional habitats.
Bell’s Vireo
Blue-winged Warbler
Brown Thrasher
Eastern Towhee
Field Sparrow
Golden-winged Warbler
Kirtland’s Warbler
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Bobwhite
Prairie Warbler
Shoreline
Includes areas where land meets water.
Bank Swallow
Least Tern
Piping Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Grassland
Includes open grasslands such as prairies, meadows, and hayfields.
Baird’s Sparrow
Bobolink
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Eastern Meadowlark
Grasshopper Sparrow
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Henslow’s Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Mountain Plover
Sprague’s Pipit
Wetland and Marsh
Includes both fresh and saltwater marshes, bogs, swamps, and peatlands.
American Bittern
Black Tern
Franklin’s Gull
Green Heron
Horned Grebe
King Rail
LeConte’s Sparrow
Marbled Godwit
Northern Pintail
