Illinois Christmas Bird Count Species List

Illinois Christmas Bird Count Species List Black Vulture *(except known locations) Turkey Vulture *N Count Name:______Bald Eagle (a:_____,i:____,?______) Count Date:______Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Count Compiler:______Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Greater White-fronted Goose Accipiter sp. Snow Goose (combined) Red-shouldered Hawk white Red-tailed Hawk blue Rough-legged Hawk Ross's Goose (compiler's comments) American Kestrel Cackling Goose Peregrine Falcon Canada Goose Virginia Rail (compiler's comments) Mute Swan American Coot Trumpeter Swan (compiler's comments) Sandhill Crane (compiler's comments) Tundra Swan Killdeer Wood Duck Wilson's Snipe Gadwall American Woodcock *N,C American Wigeon Bonaparte's Gull American Black Duck Ring-billed Gull Mallard Herring Gull Northern Shoveler Thayer's Gull Northern Pintail Lesser Black-backed Gull Green-winged Teal Glaucous Gull duck sp. Great Black-backed Gull Canvasback gull sp. Redhead Rock Pigeon Ring-necked Duck Ringed Turtle-Dove (Joliet only) Greater Scaup Eurasian Collared-Dove *N (except known locations) Lesser Scaup Mourning Dove scaup sp. Monk Parakeet Surf Scoter *(except L. Michigan) Barn Owl *N, C White-winged Scoter *(except L. Michigan) Eastern Screech-Owl Black Scoter *(except L. Michigan) Great Horned Owl Long-tailed Duck Snowy Owl (compiler comments) Bufflehead Barred Owl Common Goldeneye Long-eared Owl Hooded Merganser Short-eared Owl Common Merganser Northern Saw-whet Owl Red-breasted Merganser Belted Kingfisher Ruddy Duck Red-headed Woodpecker Ring-necked Pheasant Red-bellied Woodpecker Greater Prairie-Chicken (Newton CBC only) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Wild Turkey Downy Woodpecker Northern Bobwhite Hairy Woodpecker Common Loon Northern Flicker Pied-billed Grebe Pileated Woodpecker Horned Grebe Eastern Phoebe *N American White Pelican *N, C Loggerhead Shrike *N, C Double-crested Cormorant Northern Shrike *C, S Great Blue Heron Blue Jay Black-crowned Night-Heron American Crow Eurasian Tree Sparrow Horned Lark Carolina Chickadee *N Others – please include documentation forms Black-capped Chickadee *S Tufted Titmouse *______Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch *______Brown Creeper Carolina Wren *______House Wren *N, C Winter Wren *______Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet *N *______Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush *______American Robin Northern Mockingbird *______Brown Thrasher European Starling *______American Pipit *N, C

Cedar Waxwing Total Species:______Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Total Birds: ______Eastern Towhee Any species not on this list must be thoroughly American Tree Sparrow documented – if possible, please send a copy to Field Sparrow (N, compiler's comments) IORC as well. Savannah Sparrow (N, compiler's comments) Le Conte's Sparrow *N, C Miles: Fox Sparrow Driven:______Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Walked:______White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Other: ______Dark-eyed Junco Hours: Lapland Longspur Driven:______Snow Bunting Northern Cardinal Walked:______Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Other: ______Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird *N,C Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird blackbird sp. Purple Finch House Finch Red Crossbill (compiler's comments) White-winged Crossbill (compiler's comments) Common Redpoll (compiler's comments) Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak House Sparrow