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Posted below are the avian prey species. Other species can be found in the Prey Guide
Anything that's italicized will be a cross entry to another guide. The text following any entry to these lists will indicate original guide, and places to be crosslinked from (IE: HOME-GUIDE -> LINK1, LINK2).
Feel free to propose areas you think we might have overlooked something, or changes you think we may wish to make to the list as it currently stands. Make sure to keep in mind that our forest is in the US, MN (not far off the point of lake superior facing west).
You'll have about 24 hours without comments before I finalize this and start getting things ready to publish.
- Anything linked has been added to the main lists.
- Anything with a linked X in parenthesis following it has been entered into the TO DO LIST.
- Anything with a GRAY linked title has it's central page made in the Prey Guide.
- Anything with a RED linked title is awaiting the creation of it's central prey guide page.
- Birds marked with + are seen during spring/fall migrations
- Birds marked with - are seen during summer
- Birds marked with | are seen during winter
- Unmarked birds are year-round
Prey Species
- - Bobolink
- - Red-winged Blackbird
- - Brown-headed Cowbird
- - American Goldfinch
- -/+ Philadelphia Vireo
- - Yellow Warbler
- - Cape May Warbler
- -/+ Palm Warbler
- + Wilson's Warbler
- - White-throated Sparrow
- + Lapland Longspur
- + Smith's Longspur
- - Chestnut-sided Warbler
- -/+ Horned Lark
- + White-crowned Sparrow
- + Blackpoll Warbler
- Northern Cardinal
- - Great Crested Flycatcher
- | Bohemian Waxwing
- Cedar Waxwing
- - Blue-headed Vireo
- - Scarlet Tanager
- | Pine Grosbeak
- Purple Finch
- Red Crossbill
- White-winged Crossbill
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Boreal Chickadee
- - Golden-crowned Kinglet
- - Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- - American Crow
- European Starling
- -/+ Rusty Blackbird
- - Brewer's Blackbird
- - Common Grackle
- - Black Tern
- - Wood Duck
- - Green-winged Teal
- - American Black Duck
- - Mallard
- - Blue-winged Teal
- + Northern Shoveler
- - Gadwall
- -/+ American Wigeon
- + Canvasback
- + Redhead
- - Ring-necked Duck
- + Greater Scaup
- + Lesser Scaup
- + Long-tailed Duck
- Common Goldeneye
- -/+ Bufflehead
- - Hooded Merganser
- - Common Merganser
- - Red-breasted Merganser
- - Ruddy Duck
- - American Coot
- + Red-throated Loon
- - Common Loon
- - Pied-billed Grebe
- +/- Horned Grebe
- - Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- | Common Redpoll
- | Hoary Redpoll
- Pine Siskin
- - Common Yellowthroat
- - Golden-winged Warbler
- - Black-throated Blue Warbler
- - Connecticut Warbler
- - Black-throated Green Warbler
- + Snow Goose
- - Canada Goose
- Spruce Grouse
- Ruffed Grouse
- Sharp-tailed Grouse
- - Ring-billed Gull
- - Herring Gull
- - American Bittern
- | Cattle Egret
- - Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Jay
- Blue Jay
- - Indigo Bunting
- Gray Jay
- | Northern Shrike
- - Olive-sided Flycatcher
- - Eastern Kingbird
- - Warbling Vireo
- - Black-billed Cuckoo
- - Eastern Meadowlark
- - Western Meadowlark
- + Greater Yellowlegs
- + Lesser Yellowlegs
- + Stilt Sandpiper
- + Solitary Sandpiper
- + American Golden-Plover
- + Semipalmated Plover
- - Killdeer
- - Spotted Sandpiper
- - Upland Sandpiper
- + Semipalmated Sandpiper
- + Least Sandpiper
- + White-rumped Sandpiper
- + Pectoral Sandpiper
- + Dunlin
- - Wilson's Snipe
- - Common Nighthawk
- - Whip-poor-will
- - Baltimore Oriole
- + Orange-crowned Warbler
- - Nashville Warbler
- - Northern Parula
- - Magnolia Warbler
- - Blackburnian Warbler
- - Pine Warbler
- - American Redstart
- - Mourning Warbler
- - Canada Warbler
- Evening Grosbeak
- - American Robin
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- -/+ Bay-breasted Warbler
- - Eastern Bluebird
- - Yellow Rail
- - Sora
- - American Woodcock
- | Snow Bunting
- - Black-and-white Warbler
- + American Tree Sparrow
- - Chipping Sparrow
- - Vesper Sparrow
- + Fox Sparrow
- - Song Sparrow
- - Lincoln's Sparrow
- - Swamp Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- House Sparrow
- - Tennessee Warbler
- - Ovenbird
- - Northern Waterthrush
- - Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- - Alder Flycatcher
- - Least Flycatcher
- - Eastern Phoebe
- - Red-eyed Vireo
- - Savannah Sparrow
- - Le Conte's Sparrow
- - Yellow-rumped Warbler
- - Chimney Swift
- - Purple Martin
- - Tree Swallow
- - Northern Rough-winged Swallow
- - Cliff Swallow
- - Barn Swallow
- + Bonaparte's Gull
- + Franklin's Gull
- + Caspian Tern
- - Common Tern
- + Forster's Tern
- - Veery
- + Gray-cheeked Thrush
- - Swainson's Thrush
- - Hermit Thrush
- - Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- - Brown Thrasher
- + American Pipit
- - Eastern Wood-Pewee
- - Red-headed Woodpecker
- - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- - Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- - House Wren
- - Winter Wren
- - Sedge Wren
- Brown Creeper
- - Marsh Wren
Posted by Kitsufox (administrator) on 21 February 2016 at 17:33.
Edited by Kitsufox (administrator) on 5 May 2017 at 21:21. |
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What about the Common Nighthawk, also known as the Bullbat? https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Nighthawk/lifehistory Unrelated to true hawks, they're a type of nightjar and owl-like in appearance. They'd be seen in the Forest during summer.
I'm giving a report on them in school, so I'd be happy to make a sheet for the species. It'd be doing me a favor, actually, since I have to research them anyway; this way I'll be having fun, and have to get my data all organized!
| Posted by Fae~o~the~Wind (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 07:20. |
| Not sure how they got missed. I'll have to look into where they'll fit (I leave for work in just a few so I don't have time to do more than glance). I'll sort out what species it will belong to (probobly hawk or falcon, based on the looks) and let you know.
| Posted by Kitsufox (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 11:29. |
| Species: Caprimulgidae minor.
Order: Caprimulgiformes
Family: Caprimulgidae
Related Species: Whip-poor-will, Common Pauraque
These insectivores are definitely not raptors like hawks.
Source: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse_tax.aspx?family=12
Posted by Fae~o~the~Wind (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 12:20.
Edited by Fae~o~the~Wind (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 12:21. |
| The cats lump. I've got some duck species listed as gulls and things like that. They wouldn't split species the way humans do. Despite not technically being a raptor, it may still get lumped with hawks or falcons (depending on size, it might even get called a kestrel, which to the cats is just a very tiny falcon). I'll let you know ;) I should swap to radio silence pretty soon. I'm at work already.
| Posted by Kitsufox (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 12:34. |
| ~lightbulb moment~ Ah! Okay. I hadn't considered that cat species are much more inclusive than human species.
No need to reply when you're at work; this isn't all that urgent for me. The game's gotten along just fine without Nighthawks thus far. ;D
- Personally, I think the Nighthawk fits best as an Falcon.
- "The farsighted falcon is a traitor,
betraying the same borders it defends as sole dictator." That omen could work.
- Owl
- Its relative, the whip-poor-will, is already listed as an owl, and the two look very similar to each other.
- HOWEVER, the animal omen doesn't quite fit
- "Owl is master of ambush and flight, surrounded by whispers in the darkness of night."
- The Nighthawk isn't strictly nocturnal like owls and poor-wills are; it's most active at sunrise and sunset
- It wouldn't go under Kestrels.
- Though they're roughly the same size (Nighthawk wingspan 53-57 cm, Kestrel wingspan 51-61 cm), the animal omen for Kestrel doesn't work with Nighthawks:
- "Noble Kestrel of Green-Leaf skies, into a Fresh-Kill Pile tucks its prize".
- Since Nighthawks hunt insects whilst flying, they wouldn't make what cats recognize as a fresh-kill pile.
- "Hawk, this Flying Thief, is the Taker of Kits, to many Queens' grief."
- Similar size to Merlin, but
- Again, Nighthawks are insectivores. They wouldn't be after kits.
- Maybe it could go under as a tiny Falcon, as you suggested?
Posted by Fae~o~the~Wind (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 14:10.
Edited by Fae~o~the~Wind (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 17:15. |
| You're making my life easy, doing all of the thinking (and kindly not just laying out your conclusions, but your impetus). This is why I love you. I'm squeezing thoughts in when I can, not breaking any rules. I'm done at 11, so I don't have much more to do today.
| Posted by Kitsufox (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 14:18. |
| I was replying mostly because I'd rather be doing this than cataloging receipts. Bookkeeping is not my favorite part of my spare job ;)
Now... Glancing about at things... I'm almost tempted to break Whip-poor-will and Nighthawk into their own (somewhat rare) species entry as "Nighthawks". I try to avoid single-species cat-names for the birds unless there's a solid reason to make that choice (Examples: Hummingbird, Raven). Whip-poor-will was one of those weird single species birds that didn't seem to require it's own species... But adding a second species and thus making it more than an occasionally sighted "weird owl" seems like it might be an option to discuss... Whip-poor-will alone was behaviorally different enough to almost get split from own from the start. The only reason I didn't it because cats would do the daytime, dawn, dusk thing. It seems that extreme nighttime activity other than patrols and standing guard aren't exactly clan-catty. I feel like with the Nighthawk added in it would significantly increase the experience of them that the clans have...
| Posted by Kitsufox (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 19:17. |
| Ooh, I like that idea the best, having the Whip-poor-will and Nighthawk together in their own Nighthawk Species.
| Posted by Fae~o~the~Wind (administrator) on 4 April 2016 at 22:11. |
| I decided to officially make the split. Nighthawk is now officially a cat-species-name comprised of Whip-poor-will and common nighthawk.
| Posted by Kitsufox (administrator) on 5 May 2017 at 21:23. |
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