{"id":257,"date":"2025-10-13T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:25:03","slug":"fargo-big-sit-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/fargo-big-sit-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Fargo Big Sit 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A cold windy day of birding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you everyone for coming to the Fargo Big sit. We had 21 people and 39 species! The morning wasn&#8217;t bad, we were at 30+ species by 9 am. But as the wind picked up, the birds slowed down&#8230;Regardless, it was a really fun event! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up : Christmas Bird Count! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ChatGPT-Image-Oct-13-2025-11_17_10-AM-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ChatGPT-Image-Oct-13-2025-11_17_10-AM-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ChatGPT-Image-Oct-13-2025-11_17_10-AM-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ChatGPT-Image-Oct-13-2025-11_17_10-AM-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ChatGPT-Image-Oct-13-2025-11_17_10-AM-600x900.png 600w, https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ChatGPT-Image-Oct-13-2025-11_17_10-AM.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>       <strong>List of birds from Fargo Big Sit 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Canada Goose (<em>Branta canadensis<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wood Duck (<em>Aix sponsa<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mallard (<em>Anas platyrhynchos<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rock Pigeon (Feral ) (<em>Columba livia<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mourning Dove (<em>Zenaida macroura<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turkey Vulture (<em>Cathartes aura<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sharp-shinned Hawk (<em>Accipiter striatus<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bald Eagle (<em>Haliaeetus leucoceph<\/em>alus)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red-tailed Hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensi<\/em>s) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red-bellied Woodpecker (<em>Melanerpes ca<\/em>rolinus) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Downy Woodpecker (<em>Dryobates pubescens<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hairy Woodpecker (<em>Dryobates villosus<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pileated Woodpecker (<em>Dryocopus pileatus<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Northern Flicker (<em>Colaptes auratus<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Merlin (<em>Falco columbarius<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blue Jay (<em>Cyanocitta cristata<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Crow (<em>Corvus brachyrhynchos<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Black-capped Chickadee (<em>Poecile atricapillus<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Golden-crowned Kinglet (<em>Regulus satrapa<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White-breasted Nuthatch (<em>Sitta carolinensis<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red-breasted Nuthatch (<em>Sitta canadensis<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Robin (<em>Turdus migratorius<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cedar Waxwing (<em>Bombycilla cedrorum<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>House Finch (<em>Haemorhous mexicanus<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Purple Finch (<em>Haemorhous purpur<\/em>eus) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Goldfinch (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fox Sparrow (<em>Passerella iliaca<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dark-eyed Junco (<em>Junco hyemalis<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White-crowned Sparrow (<em>Zonotrichia leucophrys<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harris&#8217;s Sparrow (<em>Zonotrichia querula<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White-throated Sparrow (<em>Zonotrichia albicollis<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Song Sparrow (<em>Melospiza melod<\/em>ia) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red-winged Blackbird (<em>Agelaius phoeniceus<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rusty Blackbird (<em>Euphagus carolinus<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Common Grackle (<em>Quiscalus quiscu<\/em>la) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Northern Cardinal (<em>Cardinalis cardinalis<\/em>) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rose-breasted Grosbeak (<em>Pheucticus ludovicianus)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>European Starling (<em>Sturnus vulgaris<\/em>) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cold windy day of birding Thank you everyone for coming to the Fargo Big sit. We had 21 people and 39 species! The morning wasn&#8217;t bad, we were at 30+ species by 9 am. But as the wind picked up, the birds slowed down&#8230;Regardless, it was a really fun event! Next up : Christmas Bird Count! List of birds from Fargo Big Sit 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmbirders.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}