Forty years of Christmas Bird Counts show 208 of 305 national bird species moving slowly north. Birds now found farther north in Minnesota include:
• Tundra swan
• Cardinal
• Red-headed woodpecker
• Bald eagle
• Wild turkey
• Merganser
• Cooper's hawk
• Gadwall
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