From casresearch at comcast.net Fri May 1 22:11:21 2020 From: casresearch at comcast.net (ALAN ANDERSON) Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 22:11:21 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [BCNnet] 2020 Illinios Spring Bird Count is May 9th; here is the 2019 count results for Cook County Message-ID: <396711172.1392958.1588389081530@connect.xfinity.com> Every year there's going to be some factor affecting the Illinois Spring Bird Count. Last year's count was on May 4th, and the early date and earlier weather meant not as many migrants had come through Cook County yet, as we ended up with 'only' 190 species recorded. The prior year, in 2018, birders found 208 species in Cook County. This year of course, a number of areas will be off limits (Chicago lakefront parks, a number of Cook County Nature Centers closed, a few other preserve parking lots closed on weekends as well as some other locations), and many birders just might not be able to get out away from home as much, or limited in other ways. The statewide count will still go on (see https://www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/birds/sbc/ ), even though other counties will see similar or other closures. At least some of the state parks will be open. If you are interested in helping, contact the compiler in your county: https://www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/birds/sbc/county-compilers/ In Cook County, those who have helped in the past, and who's area is not closed or otherwise off limits, can still help in the same areas. Others who's area is closed off can help in preserves that often are not covered at all or very well (especially in southwest or south central Cook); State Compiler Tara Beveroth is encouraging others to bird from their backyard (natural habitat, or feeders offering varied foods - sunflower, nyjer seed, peanuts, safflower, oranges, jelly etc) might attract a variety of birds) or neighborhood this year also. Feel free to contact me if you'd like to help out. ( entering your species lists and numbers into eBird, having eBird email you the checklist, and forwarding that info to me is the easiest way to get me the info). Below is the species list from 2019 for Cook County (easier to see or find sometimes than the state site). And thanks again to all who have volunteered or helped in the past or this year! Alan Anderson, compiler for Cook County portion of the Illinois Spring Bird Count, casresearch at comcast.net mailto:casresearch at comcast.net Des Plaines -- County Name COOK compiler: Alan B. Anderson 190 species # of hours 361.52 # of Observers 185 # of Parties 92 Start 3:45am End 8:24pm Miles Walked 259.75 Miles Driven 248.9 Other 0 Hours Walked 340.77 Hours Driven 16.75 Other (feeder watching) 4 Date 5/4/2019 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Snow Goose Ross's Goose Greater White-fronted Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose 1606 Mute Swan 26 Trumpeter Swan 2 Tundra Swan Wood Duck 229 Blue-winged Teal 123 Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler 40 Gadwall 24 American Wigeon Mallard 718 American Black Duck Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal 6 Canvasback Redhead 2 Ring-necked Duck 18 Greater Scaup 5 Lesser Scaup 19 Common Eider Harlequin Duck Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck Bufflehead 26 Common Goldeneye 2 Hooded Merganser 22 Common Merganser Red-breasted Merganser 1596 Ruddy Duck 35 Northern Bobwhite Ring-necked Pheasant 2 Gray Partridge Ruffed Grouse Greater Prairie-Chicken Wild Turkey Pied-billed Grebe 22 Horned Grebe 18 Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Rock Pigeon 279 Eurasian Collared-Dove 2 Mourning Dove 209 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk Chuck-will's-widow Eastern Whip-poor-will 3 Chimney Swift 383 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5 King Rail Virginia Rail 17 Sora 95 Common Gallinule 8 American Coot 50 Purple Gallinule Yellow Rail Black Rail Sandhill Crane 27 Whooping Crane Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Black-bellied Plover American Golden-Plover Semipalmated Plover Piping Plover Killdeer 75 Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Marbled Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Ruff Stilt Sandpiper Sanderling Dunlin Baird's Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher American Woodcock 4 Wilson's Snipe 14 Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Red Phalarope Spotted Sandpiper 70 Solitary Sandpiper 18 Greater Yellowlegs 15 Willet 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 7 Bonaparte's Gull 70 Little Gull Laughing Gull Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull 2341 California Gull Herring Gull 528 (Thayer's Gull) 1 Iceland Gull 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Glaucous Gull 1 Great Black-backed Gull Least Tern Caspian Tern 599 Black Tern Common Tern 1 Arctic Tern Forster's Tern 5 Red-throated Loon Common Loon 2 Double-crested Cormorant 2170 Anhinga American White Pelican 5 American Bittern 3 Least Bittern 1 Great Blue Heron 236 Great Egret 165 Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron 39 Black-crowned Night-Heron 124 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis Black Vulture Turkey Vulture 60 Osprey 15 White-tailed Kite Swallow-tailed Kite Golden Eagle Mississippi Kite Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 11 Cooper's Hawk 37 Northern Goshawk Bald Eagle 9 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Broad-winged Hawk 11 Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk 71 Rough-legged Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Barn Owl Eastern Screech-Owl 2 Great Horned Owl 12 Barred Owl 2 Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher 31 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 23 Red-headed Woodpecker 18 Red-bellied Woodpecker 202 Downy Woodpecker 214 Hairy Woodpecker 42 Pileated Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker 241 American Kestrel 17 Merlin 2 Peregrine Falcon 2 Prairie Falcon Monk Parakeet Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee 2 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher 1 Alder Flycatcher 1 Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher 43 Eastern Phoebe 73 Great Crested Flycatcher 29 Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird 45 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike White-eyed Vireo Bell's Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo 19 Blue-headed Vireo 34 Philadelphia Vireo Warbling Vireo 72 Red-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 374 Black-billed Magpie American Crow 136 Fish Crow Horned Lark 8 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 352 Purple Martin 78 Tree Swallow 756 Bank Swallow 24 Barn Swallow 422 Cliff Swallow 72 Carolina Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee 187 Tufted Titmouse 13 Red-breasted Nuthatch 31 White-breasted Nuthatch 114 Brown Creeper 28 House Wren 215 Winter Wren 7 Sedge Wren 5 Marsh Wren 18 Carolina Wren 1 Bewick's Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 320 Golden-crowned Kinglet 6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 944 Eastern Bluebird 78 Veery 27 Gray-cheeked Thrush 2 Swainson's Thrush 29 Hermit Thrush 138 Wood Thrush 34 American Robin 2161 Gray Catbird 171 Brown Thrasher 105 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 718 American Pipit 3 Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing 13 Evening Grosbeak House Finch 105 Purple Finch 7 Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Pine Siskin 15 American Goldfinch 415 Lapland Longspur Smith's Longspur Grasshopper Sparrow 9 Chipping Sparrow 206 Clay-colored Sparrow 21 Field Sparrow 138 Lark Sparrow 2 Black-throated Sparrow Lark Bunting American Tree Sparrow Fox Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco 7 White-crowned Sparrow 243 Harris's Sparrow White-throated Sparrow 1677 Vesper Sparrow 6 LeConte's Sparrow Nelson's Sparrow Savannah Sparrow 97 Henslow's Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 555 Lincoln's Sparrow 33 Swamp Sparrow 355 Spotted Towhee Eastern Towhee 91 Yellow-breasted Chat Yellow-headed Blackbird 2 Bobolink 12 Western Meadowlark Eastern Meadowlark 43 Orchard Oriole 8 Baltimore Oriole 140 Red-winged Blackbird 3088 Brown-headed Cowbird 876 Rusty Blackbird 6 Brewer's Blackbird Common Grackle 815 Great-tailed Grackle Ovenbird 54 Worm-eating Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush 4 Northern Waterthrush 96 Golden-winged Warbler 1 Blue-winged Warbler 9 Black-and-white Warbler 111 Prothonotary Warbler 5 Swainson's Warbler Tennessee Warbler 4 Orange-crowned Warbler 22 Nashville Warbler 130 Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Kentucky Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 121 Hooded Warbler 2 American Redstart 3 Cape May Warbler 6 Cerulean Warbler Northern Parula 9 Magnolia Warbler 7 Bay-breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler 4 Yellow Warbler 354 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Blackpoll Warbler 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 573 Pine Warbler 44 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1070 Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler 98 Canada Warbler Wilson's Warbler 2 Summer Tanager 5 Scarlet Tanager 2 Western Tanager Northern Cardinal 425 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 94 Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting 13 Painted Bunting Dickcissel House Sparrow 732 Eurasian Tree Sparrow ? species Common/Red Breasted Merganser specie 4 shorebird species 2 larus gull species 20 gull species 9 Forster's/Common Tern species 3 loon species 1 buteo species 1 hawk species 1 empi species 2 shrike species 1 swallow species 63 thrush species 1 sparrow species 5 blackbird species 112 warbler species passerine species 7 7 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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