[BCNnet] 2020 Illinios Spring Bird Count is May 9th; here is the 2019 count results for Cook County

[ALAN ANDERSON]

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
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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
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