[BCNnet] List of Illinois' Threatened and Endangered Birds

[Donnie Dann]

The Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board recently updated the list
of Illinois' endangered and threatened species.  For the interest of all,
the current list of state designated birds follows.  

 

Donnie Dann

Highland Park/Lake County

donniebird at yahoo.com

 

BIRDS 

25 Endangered, 5 Threatened 

Endangered 

Asio flammeus Short-eared Owl 

Bartramia longicauda Upland Sandpiper 

Botaurus lentiginosus American Bittern 

Buteo swainsoni Swainson's Hawk 

Charadrius melodus** Piping Plover 

Chlidonias niger Black Tern 

Circus cyaneus Northern Harrier 

Egretta caerulea Little Blue Heron 

Egretta thula Snowy Egret 

Gallinula chloropus Common Moorhen 

Lanius ludovicianus Loggerhead Shrike 

Laterallus jamaicensis Black Rail 

Limnothlypis swainsonii Swainson's Warbler 

Nyctanassa violacea Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 

Nycticorax nycticorax Black-crowned Night-Heron 

Pandion haliaetus Osprey 

Phalaropus tricolor Wilson's Phalarope 

Rallus elegans King Rail 

Sterna forsteri Forster's Tern 

Sterna hirundo Common Tern 

Sternula antillarum** Least Tern 

Thryomanes bewickii Bewick's Wren 

Tympanuchus cupido Greater Prairie-Chicken 

Tyto alba Barn Owl 

Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus Yellow-headed Blackbird 

Threatened 

Coccyzus erythropthalmus Black-billed Cuckoo 

Dendroica cerulea Cerulean Warbler 

Falco peregrinus Peregrine Falcon 

Ictinia mississippiensis Mississippi Kite 

Ixobrychus exilis Least Bittern 

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