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Black Hills Wildlife
Birds of the Black Hills
Copyright 2002-2006 Travis N. Wood | | Bird Pages by Common Names | | 1) Migratory Birds, Game Birds, Birds of Prey etc. | swans, geese, ducks; grouse, pheasant, turkey; loons, grebes, pelicans, cormorants, bitterns, herons, vultures, eagles, hawks, falcons, plovers, sandpipers, gulls, terns—and related birds. | | 2) Other Non-Passerine Birds | rails, coots, cranes; doves, pigeons; cuckoos, owls; swifts, hummingbirds; kingfishers; woodpeckers—and related birds. | | 3) Passerine Birds-Part One | flycatchers, pewees, phoebees, kingbirds, shrikes, vireos, jays, crows, ravens, larks, swallows, chickadees, nuthatches, wrens, dippers, kinglets, bluebirds, thrushes, robins, starlings, mockingbirds, waxwings—and related birds. | | 4) Passerine Birds-Part Two | warblers, tanagers, towhees, sparrows, juncos, longspurs, buntings, cardinals, grosbeaks, blackbirds, orioles, finches, pipits, thrushes—and related birds. | | | Bird Pages by Abbreviated Taxonomy | | i | Kingdom Animalia
.Phylum Chordata—with spinal chord
..Subphylum Vertebrata—with vertebra
...Class Aves—Birds | | 1 | ....Order Anseriformes—Swans, Geese, & Ducks
......Family Anatidae—Geese, & Ducks
....Order Galliformes—Grouse, Pheasant, Turkey, & Quail
......Family Phasianidae—Grouse
.......Subfamily Perdicinae—Francolins, Partridges
.......Subfamily Phasianinae—Pheasants
.......Subfamily Tetraoninae—Grouse
.......Subfamily Meleagridinae—Turkeys
......Family Odontophoridae—New World Quails
....Order Ciconiiformes—Herons, Ibis, & New World Vultures
......Family Gaviidae—Loons
......Family Podicipedidae—Grebes
......Family Pelecanidae—Pelicans
......Family Phalacrocoracidae—Cormorants
......Family Ardeidae—Herons
......Family Ciconiidae (cf. Cathartidae)—New World Vultures
......Family Accipitridae—Eagles, Kites, & Hawks
......Family Falconidae—Falcons
......Family Charadriidae—Shorebirds, Plovers, Stilt & Avocet
......Family Scolopacidae—Sandpipers
......Family Laridae—Jaegers, Gulls & Terns | | 2 | ....Order Gruiformes—Rails, Limpkin, & Cranes
......Family Rallidae—Rails
......Family Gruidae—Cranes
....Order Columbiformes—Doves
......Family Columbidae—
....Order Cuculiformes—Cuckoos, Roadrunner, & Anis
......Family Coccyzidae—Cuckoos
....Order Strigiformes—Owls
.....Family Tytonidae—Barn Owls
......Family Strigidae—Typical Owls
......Family Caprimulgidae—Goatsuckers, nightjars
....Order Apodiformes—Swifts & Hummingbirds
......Family Apodidae—Swifts
......Family Trochilidae—Hummingbirds
....Order Coraciiformes—Kingfishers
......Family Alcedinidae—Kingfishers
....Order Piciformes—Woodpeckers
......Family Picidae—Woodpeckers | | 3 | ....Order Passeriformes—Perching Birds
......Family Tyrannidae—Tyrant Flycatchers, Kindbirds
......Family Laniidae—Shrikes
......Family Vireonidae—Vireos
......Family Corvidae—Jays & Crows
......Family Alaudidae—Larks
......Family Hirundinidae—Swallows
......Family Paridae—Chickadees & Titmice
......Family Sittidae—Nuthatches
......Family Certhiidae—Creepers, Gnatcatchers
......Family Cinclidae—Dipper
......Family Regulidae—Kinglets
......Family Muscicapidae (cf. Turdidae)—Old World Flycatchers, Thrushes
......Family Sturnidae—Starling, Mockingbirds, & Thrashers
......Family Bombycillidae—Waxwings | | 4 | ......Family Fringillidae—Finches, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Northern Warblers, Tanagers, Towhees & Sparrows, Blackbirds, Meadowlarks, Orioles.
"Families" in parentheses indicate categories in earlier taxonomic systems that have been incorporated into Fringillidae in the ITIS taxonomy of the USDA, which is followed in these pages.
......(Family Parulidae)—Warblers
......(Family Thraupidae)—Tanagers
......(Family Emberizidae)—Towhees & Sparrows
......(Family Cardinalidae)—Grosbeaks & Buntings
......(Family Icteridae)—Blackbirds & Orioles
......(Family Fringillidae)—Finches
......Family Passeridae (cf. Motacillidae)—Old World Sparrows, Wagtails & Pipits
.....Suborder Oscines—
......Family Turdidae—Thrushes | Which Species are Included? This four-page list of birds in the Black Hills follows closely the Black Hills National Forest Bird Brochure available at Forest Service offices or downloadable at the link provided below. That list provides only common names. The taxonomic names we have obtained over the years from our own studies of taxonomy previous to Internet availability, from the USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter, from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) employed by the United States Department of Agriculture, and from the Wind Cave National Park Bird List. There are in these pages some species listed which are not currently listed in the Bird Brochure. Those species derive either from previous lists by the Forest Service (dating back to 1988), from Wind Cave National Park, from Devil's Tower National Monument, or from the Bird Checklist for Fort Meade Recreation Area. Having restricted ourselves to the immediate area of the Black Hills, we have made no attempt to include other birds which may be found in Badlands National Park. If we had, it is unlikely there would be many additions. Unlike our treatment of mammals, we have not included marginal or outlying areas surrounding the Hills. Not wishing to become insular in our perspective, we nonetheless suspect most of us would do well to be familiar with the 268 species of birds listed. If we have erred by being over-inclusive, it is with the purpose of being prepared for most possibilities. There is something to be said for including even more species, since some of those found in our lists evidently arrived in the Black Hills "by mistake." Perhaps a half dozen species, such as a few warblers, thrushes, or pipits, are not in the order used by the Bird Brochure. That slight reordering was necessary for us to follow the ITIS taxonomic structure. Perhaps the Forest Service made slight compromises to fit their valuable information onto printed pages. Taxonomy has always been a work in progress. A nation's or state's appraisal of its wildlife becomes codified into laws which rely upon taxonomic nomenclature. Meanwhile, countless proposals for revision are raised through various studies in widely-scattered venues. We are confronted today by a scientific world still finding new species of birds and attempting to institute the discoveries of genetic mapping. Our challenge in these pages is similar. Were we able to translate the elaborate hierarchy of Sibley and Monroe's genetic studies into our classification (and the notion does entertain us), we might find ourselves unable to decipher field guides from years past. Those small books on our shelves still provide valuable information and photographs. So we all compromise in our listings with the possible precision of incorporating new names and elaborate genetic structure. The new information can be fascinating, but for the non-professional enthusiast, with that new precision comes some obscurity. Our pages are designed to help us keep up to date as much as possible, while still retaining some simplicity and connection to those Latin terms and common names employed in previous guides. Occasionally in our pages, the reader will see in parentheses the abbreviation "cf." followed by a taxonomic name. Those two letters allow us to "compare" different taxonomic names, which may include the same species in slightly different structures. Resource Links: Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS
USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
Wind Cave National Park Bird List
Black Hills National Forest Bird Brochure
Bird Checklist for Fort Meade--USGS
South Dakota Birds and Birding
Wyoming State List of Birds
Northern State University
Devil's Tower Bird List
Animal Diversity Web on Birds
Bird Nature-com on Bird Families
Images of Wild Birds by Richard Ditch
WhatBird Identification Guide
Peterson Bird Identifications
Biology Base Birds of Wyoming
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center Checklists by State
Cornell University Bird Guide
Sibley and Monroe World List |
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