COOK COUNTY SPRING BIRD COUNT - SPECIES list (and number seen)

 

May 7, 2005

Total # species: 192, plus 2 hybrids and 2 other (1 non-native: Eur. Goldfinch, and 1 rooster- submitted by one observer but not wild)

SPECIES & NUMBER REPORTED:

 

Canada Goose - 2,187

Mute Swan - 43

Wood Duck - 253

Gadwall - 12

Mallard - 752

Blue-winged Teal - 79

Northern Shoveler -14

Green-winged Teal - 2

Redhead - 1

Ring-necked Duck - 8

Lesser Scaup - 10

Bufflehead - 3

Common Goldeneye - 1

Hooded Merganser - 10

Common Merganser - 4

Red-breasted Merganser - 70

Ruddy Duck - 86

Ring-necked Pheasant - 4

 Pied-billed Grebe - 19

Double-crested Cormorant - 646

American Bittern - 2

Great Blue Heron - 141

Great Egret - 233

Snowy Egret - 1

Little Blue Heron - 4

Green Heron - 67

Black-crowned Night-Heron - 518

Turkey Vulture - 28

 

Osprey - 5

Sharp-shinned Hawk - 4

Cooper's Hawk -20

   (Accipiter species - 2)

Broad-winged Hawk - 8

Red-tailed Hawk - 75

American Kestrel - 18

Peregrine Falcon - 2

Yellow Rail - 1

Virginia Rail - 9

Sora - 28

Common Moorhen - 3

American Coot - 127

Sandhill Crane - 6

Semipalmated Plover - 7

Killdeer - 118

Greater Yellowlegs - 10

Lesser Yellowlegs - 69

Solitary Sandpiper - 126

Spotted Sandpiper - 104

Semipalmated Sandpiper - 6

Least Sandpiper - 79

Pectoral Sandpiper - 93

Dunlin - 9

Stilt Sandpiper - 1

Short-billed Dowitcher - 1

Common Snipe - 6

American Woodcock - 3

Wilson's Phalarope - 4

Laughing Gull - 1

  (Laughing X Ring-billed Gull hybrid - 1)

Ring-billed Gull - 12,906

Herring Gull - 96

  (gull, species 17)

Caspian Tern - 1,059

Common Tern - 10

Forster's Tern - 32

Black Tern - 1

 

Rock Pigeon - 669

Mourning Dove - 464

Monk Parakeet - 117

Great Horned Owl - 9

Whip-poor-will1 - 4

Chimney Swift - 235

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2

Belted Kingfisher - 27

Red-headed Woodpecker - 22

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 166

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 6

Downy Woodpecker - 179

Hairy Woodpecker - 38

Northern Flicker - 199

Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1

Eastern Wood-Pewee - 3

     (empidonax species - 1)

Least Flycatcher - 28

Eastern Phoebe - 40

Great Crested Flycatcher - 168

Eastern Kingbird - 14

White-eyed Vireo - 3

Yellow-throated Vireo - 9

Blue-headed Vireo - 25

Warbling Vireo - 91

Philadelphia Vireo - 3

Red-eyed Vireo - 36

Blue Jay - 422

American Crow - 228

Purple Martin - 85

Tree Swallow - 301

Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 402

Bank Swallow - 56

Cliff Swallow - 43

Barn Swallow - 567

Black-capped Chickadee - 248

Tufted Titmouse - 14

Red-breasted Nuthatch - 20

White-breasted Nuthatch - 57

Brown Creeper - 1

Carolina Wren - 13

House Wren - 139

Winter Wren - 5

Sedge Wren - 5

Marsh Wren - 17

Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 391

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 291

Eastern Bluebird - 34

Veery - 71

Gray-cheeked Thrush - 16

Swainson's Thrush - 48

Hermit Thrush - 50

Wood Thrush - 48

American Robin - 3,212

Gray Catbird - 159

Northern Mockingbird - 3

Brown Thrasher - 84

European Starling - 3,224

American Pipit - 16

Cedar Waxwing - 35

Blue-winged Warbler - 44

Golden-winged Warbler - 28

   [Brewster's Warbler hybrid - 1]

Tennessee Warbler  - 72

Orange-crowned Warbler - 45

Nashville Warbler - 220

Northern Parula - 41

Yellow Warbler - 281

Chestnut-sided Warbler - 37

Magnolia Warbler - 29

Cape May Warbler - 18

Black-throated Blue Warbler - 20

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1,895

Black-throated Green Warbler - 231

Blackburnian Warbler - 34

Pine Warbler - 11

Palm Warbler - 1,446

Bay-breasted Warbler - 10

Blackpoll Warbler - 10

Cerulean Warbler - 4

Black-and-white Warbler 108

American Redstart - 50

Prothonotary Warbler - 3

Worm-eating Warbler - 3

Ovenbird - 70

Northern Waterthrush - 122

Louisiana Waterthrush - 3

Kentucky Warbler - 2

Mourning Warbler - 1

Common Yellowthroat - 111

Hooded Warbler - 3

Wilson's Warbler - 4

Canada Warbler - 1

Yellow-breasted Chat - 2

Summer Tanager - 2

Scarlet Tanager  - 34

Eastern Towhee - 60

American Tree Sparrow - 8

Chipping Sparrow - 327

Clay-colored Sparrow - 4

Field Sparrow - 101

Vesper Sparrow - 1

Lark Sparrow - 2

Savannah Sparrow - 307

Grasshopper Sparrow - 2

Henslow's Sparrow - 2

Le Conte's Sparrow - 10

Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow - 2

Song Sparrow - 378

Lincoln's Sparrow - 81

Swamp Sparrow - 575

White-throated Sparrow - 1,811

White-crowned Sparrow - 2,025

Dark-eyed Junco - 5

Northern Cardinal - 548

Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 131

Indigo Bunting - 12

Bobolink - 95

Red-winged Blackbird - 2,588

Eastern Meadowlark  - 67

Yellow-headed Blackbird - 6

Rusty Blackbird - 3

Common Grackle - 1,625

Brown-headed Cowbird - 529

Orchard Oriole - 16

Baltimore Oriole - 208

Purple Finch - 2

House Finch - 172

American Goldfinch - 1,017

House Sparrow - 1,680

 

Other species reported:

European Goldfinch - 7

Rooster - 1

 

Earliest daylight time: 5:09 a.m.

Latest daylight time: 8:24 p.m.

Owling hours: 2.25  (4:00am start ... til dawn, and dusk til 8:30pm)

HOURS:

 a) Driving:  52.75      

 b) Walking:  284.0

 c) Other: 8.5  (6 feeder, 2.5 kayak)

MILES:

 a) Driving: 491.75

 b) Walking: 192.5

 c) Other: 2 (kayak)

 

Alan B. Anderson,

Compiler for Cook County, Spring Bird Count

casresearch@comcast.net

 


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