| CHECKLIST OF THE BIRDS OF
CARLYLE LAKE Clinton, Bond and Fayette County, Illinois Spring Migration (mid February - early June) Nesting Season/Dispersal (May - August) Fall Migration (late June - mid December) Winter Season (mid December - mid February) Common - occurs regularly and in considerable numbers, easy to observe Fairly Common - occurs regularly, but in smaller numbers, easy to observe Uncommon - occurs regularly, but in small numbers, may be missed Rare - occurs regularly, but in very small numbers, likely to be missed Very Rare - occurs irregularly or out of season, likely to be missed * - unresolved status Steinhauer Collection circa 1887-1930 C. B. Vandercook nesting records circa 1922 |
| Family Anatidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 1. Greater White-fronted Goose | c | c | c | |
| 2. Snow Goose | c | c | c | |
| 3. Ross's Goose | fc | fc | fc | |
| 4. Brant | vr | vr | ||
| 5. Cackling Goose | fc | fc | fc | |
| 6. Canada Goose | c | fc | c | c |
| 7. Mute Swan - feral | r | r | ||
| 8. Trumpeter Swan | r | r | r | |
| 9. Tundra Swan | r | r | vr | |
| 10. Wood Duck | c | c | c | r |
| 11. Gadwall | c | r | c | u |
| 12. Eurasian Wigeon | vr | |||
| 13. American Wigeon | c | c | u | |
| 14. American Black Duck | u | u | u | |
| 15. Mallard | c | c | c | c |
| 16. Mottled Duck | vr | |||
| 17. Blue-winged Teal | c | u | c | vr |
| 18. Cinnamon Teal | r | vr | ||
| 19. Northern Shoveler | c | c | u | |
| 20. Northern Pintail | c | r | c | u |
| 21. Green-winged Teal | c | r | c | u |
| 22. Canvasback | c | c | fc | |
| 23. Redhead | c | c | u | |
| 24. Ring-necked Duck | c | c | u | |
| 25. Greater Scaup | u | u | u | |
| 26. Lesser Scaup | c | c | fc | |
| 27. King Eider | ||||
| 28. Surf Scoter | r | r | r | |
| 29. White-winged Scoter | r | r | r | |
| 30. Black Scoter | r | r | ||
| 31. Long-tailed Duck | r | r | r | |
| 32. Bufflehead | fc | fc | u | |
| 33. Common Goldeneye | fc | vr | fc | c |
| 34. Hooded Merganser | fc | u | fc | fc |
| 35. Common Merganser | u | vr | u | c |
| 36. Red-breasted Merganser | c | c | u | |
| 37. Ruddy Duck | c | c | u | |
| Family Odontophoridae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 38. Northern Bobwhite | fc | fc | fc | u |
| Family Phasianidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 39. Ring-necked Pheasant - feral | u | u | u | u |
| 40. Ruffed Grouse - extirpated | ||||
| 41. Greater Prairie-Chicken - supplemented/natural | vr | vr | ||
| 42. Wild Turkey - reintroduced | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| Family Gaviidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 43. Red-throated Loon | r | r | vr | |
| 44. Pacific Loon | r | |||
| 45. Common Loon | u | fc | r | |
| Family Podicipedidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 46. Pied-billed Grebe | fc | r | fc | r |
| 47. Horned Grebe | u | fc | r | |
| 48. Red-necked Grebe | r | r | vr | |
| 49. Eared Grebe | r | r | ||
| 50. Western Grebe | r | vr | r | vr |
| Family Ciconiidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 51. Wood Stork | vr | vr | ||
| Family Phalacrocoracidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 52. Neotropic Cormorant | r | r | r | |
| 53. Double-crested Cormorant | c | c | c | u |
| Family Pelecanidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 54. American White Pelican | c | fc | c | u |
| 55. Brown Pelican | vr | |||
| Family Ardeidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 56. American Bittern | r | vr | r | vr |
| 57. Least Bittern | r | r | r | |
| 58. Great Blue Heron | c | c | c | fc |
| 59. Great Egret | fc | fc | c | |
| 60. Snowy Egret | u | u | u | |
| 61. Little Blue Heron | u | u | fc | |
| 62. Tricolored Heron | vr | vr | ||
| 63. Cattle Egret | u | u | u | |
| 64. Green Heron | fc | fc | fc | |
| 65. Black-crowned Night-Heron | u | u | r | |
| 66. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | u | u | ||
| Family Threskiornithidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 67. White Ibis | r | |||
| 68. Glossy Ibis | vr | r | ||
| 69. White-faced Ibis | vr | r | ||
| 70. Roseate Spoonbill | vr | |||
| Family Cathartidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 71. Black Vulture | vr | |||
| 72. Turkey Vulture | c | c | c | u |
| Family Pandionidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 73. Osprey | u | u | fc | |
| Family Accipitridae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 74. Mississippi Kite | r | vr | ||
| 75. Bald Eagle | u | u | u | c |
| 76. Northern Harrier | fc | r | fc | c |
| 77. Sharp-shinned Hawk | fc | fc | u | |
| 78. Cooper's Hawk | fc | u | fc | fc |
| 79. Northern Goshawk | vr | vr | vr | |
| 80. Red-shouldered Hawk | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| 81. Broad-winged Hawk | u | u | ||
| 82. Swainson's Hawk | vr | vr | vr | |
| 83. Red-tailed Hawk | c | c | c | c |
| 84. Rough-legged Hawk | r | r | u | |
| 85. Golden Eagle | r | r | r | |
| Family Rallidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 86. Yellow Rail | vr | |||
| 87. Black Rail | vr | vr | ||
| 88. King Rail | r | r | ||
| 89. Virginia Rail | u | r | ||
| 90. Sora | fc | fc | ||
| 91. Purple Gallinule | vr | |||
| 92. Common Gallinule | vr | |||
| 93. American Coot | c | r | c | u |
| Family Gruidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 94. Sandhill Crane | r | r | r | r |
| 95. Whooping Crane - reintroduced Wisconsin flock | vr | |||
| Family Charadriidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 96. Black-bellied Plover | u | u | ||
| 97. American Golden-Plover | c | u | ||
| 98. Semipalmated Plover | c | c | ||
| 99. Piping Plover | r | r | ||
| 100. Killdeer | c | c | c | u |
| Family Recurvirostridae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 101. Black-necked Stilt | r | r | r | |
| 102. American Avocet | r | r | ||
| Family Scolopacidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 103. Spotted Sandpiper | fc | r | fc | |
| 104. Solitary Sandpiper | fc | fc | ||
| 105. Greater Yellowlegs | fc | fc | ||
| 106. Willet | r | r | ||
| 107. Lesser Yellowlegs | c | c | ||
| 108. Upland Sandpiper | r | vr | r | |
| 109. Eskimo Curlew - exitinct | ||||
| 110. Whimbrel | r | r | ||
| 111. Hudsonian Godwit | r | r | ||
| 112. Marbled Godwit | r | r | ||
| 113. Ruddy Turnstone | u | u | ||
| 114. Red Knot | r | r | ||
| 115. Sanderling | u | u | ||
| 116. Semipalmated Sandpiper | c | c | ||
| 117. Western Sandpiper | r | u | ||
| 118. Least Sandpiper | c | c | vr | |
| 119. White-rumped Sandpiper | fc | r | ||
| 120. Baird's Sandpiper | u | u | ||
| 121. Pectoral Sandpiper | c | c | ||
| 122. Dunlin | fc | c | vr | |
| 123. Stilt Sandpiper | u | c | ||
| 124. Buff-breasted Sandpiper | vr | u | ||
| 125. Ruff | vr | vr | ||
| 126. Short-billed Dowitcher | fc | fc | ||
| 127. Long-billed Dowitcher | u | fc | ||
| 128. Wilson's Snipe | c | c | r | |
| 129. American Woodcock | fc | u | u | |
| 130. Wilson's Phalarope | u | u | ||
| 131. Red-necked Phalarope | r | u | ||
| 132. Red Phalarope | r | vr | ||
| Family Laridae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 133. Black-legged Kittiwake | r | r | ||
| 134. Sabine's Gull | u | |||
| 135. Bonaparte's Gull | c | c | u | |
| 136. Little Gull | vr | r | vr | |
| 137. Laughing Gull | u | u | u | vr |
| 138. Franklin's Gull | u | fc | ||
| 139. Mew Gull | vr | |||
| 140. Ring-billed Gull | c | c | c | c |
| 141. California Gull | r | r | ||
| 142. Herring Gull | fc | fc | c | |
| 143. Thayer's Gull | r | u | ||
| 144. Iceland Gull | r | |||
| 145. Lesser Black-backed Gull | r | vr | u | u |
| 146. Slaty-backed Gull | vr | |||
| 147. Glaucous-winged Gull | vr | vr | vr | |
| 148. Glaucous Gull | vr | u | ||
| 149. Great Black-backed Gull | vr | r | ||
| 150. Sooty Tern | vr | |||
| 151. Least Tern | r | u | r | |
| 152. Caspian Tern | fc | fc | ||
| 153. Black Tern | fc | fc | ||
| 154. Common Tern | fc | fc | ||
| 155. Arctic Tern | vr | |||
| 156. Forster's Tern | fc | fc | ||
| Family Stercorariidae | ||||
| 157. Pomarine Jaeger | vr | r | ||
| 158. Parasitic Jaeger | r | |||
| 159. Long-tailed Jaeger | r | |||
| Family Alcidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 160. Ancient Murrelet | vr | |||
| Family Columbidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 161. Rock Pigeon - feral | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| 162. Eurasian Collared-Dove - feral | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| 163. White-winged Dove | vr | vr | vr | |
| 164. Mourning Dove | c | c | c | c |
| 165. Passenger Pigeon - extinct | ||||
| Family Cuculidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 166. Yellow-billed Cuckoo | fc | fc | fc | |
| 167. Black-billed Cuckoo | u | r | r | |
| Family Tytonidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 168. Barn Owl | u | u | u | u |
| Family Strigidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 169. Eastern Screech-Owl | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| 170. Great Horned Owl | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| 171. Snowy Owl | vr | vr | ||
| 172. Barred Owl | c | c | c | c |
| 173. Long-eared Owl | r | vr | r | u |
| 174. Short-eared Owl | r | r | fc | |
| 175. Northern Saw-whet Owl | r | r | u | |
| Family Caprimulgidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 176. Common Nighthawk | fc | fc | fc | |
| 177. Chuck-will's-widow | vr | vr | ||
| 178. Eastern Whip-poor-will | u | u | r | |
| Family Apodidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 189. Chimney Swift | c | c | c | |
| Family Trochilidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 180. Ruby-throated Hummingbird | c | c | c | |
| Family Alcedinidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 181. Belted Kingfisher | u | u | u | u |
| Family Picidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 182. Red-headed Woodpecker | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| 183. Red-bellied Woodpecker | c | c | c | c |
| 184. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | fc | fc | u | |
| 185. Downy Woodpecker | c | c | c | c |
| 186. Hairy Woodpecker | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| 187. Northern Flicker | c | c | c | fc |
| 188. Pileated Woodpecker | u | u | u | u |
| Family Falconidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 189. American Kestrel | c | c | c | c |
| 190. Merlin | u | u | r | |
| 191. Peregrine Falcon | u | u | r | |
| 192. Prairie Falcon | vr | vr | vr | |
| Family Tyrannidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 193. Olive-sided Flycatcher | u | r | ||
| 194. Eastern Wood-Pewee | c | c | c | |
| 195. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | u | u | ||
| 196. Acadian Flycatcher | fc | fc | * | |
| 197. Alder Flycatcher | fc | * | ||
| 198. Willow Flycatcher | u | u | * | |
| 199. Least Flycatcher | fc | vr | fc | |
| 200. Eastern Phoebe | c | fc | c | r |
| 201. Say's Phoebe | vr | vr | vr | |
| 202. Great Crested Flycatcher | c | c | c | |
| 203. Tropical Kingbird | vr | |||
| 204. Western Kingbird | r | |||
| 205. Eastern Kingbird | c | c | c | |
| 206. Gray Kingbird | vr | |||
| 207. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | r | r | r | |
| Family Laniidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 208. Loggerhead Shrike | r | r | r | r |
| 209. Northern Shrike | vr | vr | vr | |
| Family Vireonidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 210. White-eyed Vireo | c | fc | c | vr |
| 211. Bell's Vireo | fc | fc | r | |
| 212. Yellow-throated Vireo | fc | fc | fc | |
| 213. Blue-headed Vireo | fc | fc | ||
| 214. Warbling Vireo | c | c | c | |
| 215. Philadelphia Vireo | u | u | ||
| 216. Red-eyed Vireo | c | c | c | |
| Family Corvidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 217. Blue Jay | c | c | c | c |
| 218. American Crow | c | c | c | c |
| 219. Fish Crow | fc | fc | ||
| 220. Common Raven - extirpated | vr | |||
| Family Alaudidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 221. Horned Lark | c | c | c | c |
| Family Hirundinidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 222. Purple Martin | c | c | c | |
| 223. Tree Swallow | c | fc | c | |
| 224. Northern Rough-winged Swallow | c | fc | c | |
| 225. Bank Swallow | c | fc | c | |
| 226. Cliff Swallow | c | c | c | |
| 227. Cave Swallow | vr | |||
| 228. Barn Swallow | c | c | c | |
| Family Paridae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 229. Carolina Chickadee (southern Bond & Fayette and all of Clinton County) | c | c | c | c |
| 230. Black-capped Chickadee (northern Bond & northern Fayette County) | c | c | c | c |
| 231. Tufted Titmouse | c | c | c | c |
| Family Sittidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 232. Red-breasted Nuthatch | u | u | u | |
| 233. White-breasted Nuthatch | c | c | c | c |
| Family Certhiidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 234. Brown Creeper | fc | fc | fc | |
| Family Troglodytidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 235. Rock Wren | vr | |||
| 236. House Wren | c | c | c | vr |
| 237. Winter Wren | u | u | r | |
| 238. Sedge Wren | u | fc | u | vr |
| 239. Marsh Wren | u | vr | u | vr |
| 240. Carolina Wren | c | c | c | c |
| 241. Bewick's Wren | vr | vr | ||
| Family Polioptilidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 242. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | c | c | c | vr |
| Family Regulidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 243. Golden-crowned Kinglet | c | c | c | |
| 244. Ruby-crowned Kinglet | c | c | r | |
| Family Turdidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 245. Eastern Bluebird | c | c | c | fc |
| 246. Veery | u | u | ||
| 247. Gray-cheeked Thrush | fc | u | ||
| 248. Swainson's Thrush | c | fc | ||
| 249. Hermit Thrush | fc | fc | u | |
| 250. Wood Thrush | fc | fc | fc | |
| 251. American Robin | c | c | c | c |
| Family Mimidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 252. Gray Catbird | c | c | c | vr |
| 253. Northern Mockingbird | c | c | c | fc |
| 254. Brown Thrasher | c | c | c | r |
| Family Sturnidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 255. European Starling - feral | c | c | c | c |
| Family Motacillidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 256. American Pipit | c | c | r | |
| 257. Sprague's Pipit | vr | |||
| Family Bombycillidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 258. Cedar Waxwing | c | fc | c | u |
| Family Calcariidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 259. Lapland Longspur | fc | fc | c | |
| 260. Smith's Longspur | r | r | ||
| 261. Snow Bunting | r | r | ||
| Family Parulidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 262. Ovenbird | fc | fc | fc | |
| 263. Worm-eating Warbler | r | vr | vr | |
| 264. Louisiana Waterthrush | u | u | ||
| 265. Northern Waterthrush | fc | u | ||
| 266. Golden-winged Warbler | u | u | ||
| 267. Blue-winged Warbler | u | u | ||
| 268. Black-and-white Warbler | fc | r | fc | |
| 269. Prothonotary Warbler | fc | fc | u | |
| 270. Tennessee Warbler | c | c | ||
| 271. Orange-crowned Warbler | u | u | r | |
| 272. Nashville Warbler | fc | fc | ||
| 273. Connecticut Warbler | r | vr | ||
| 274. Mourning Warbler | u | r | ||
| 275. Kentucky Warbler | fc | fc | r | |
| 276. Common Yellowthroat | c | c | c | vr |
| 277. Hooded Warbler | u | vr | ||
| 278. American Redstart | c | c | c | |
| 279. Cape May Warbler | fc | u | ||
| 280. Cerulean Warbler | u | u | vr | |
| 281. Northern Parula | fc | fc | fc | |
| 282. Magnolia Warbler | fc | c | ||
| 283. Bay-breasted Warbler | u | fc | ||
| 284. Blackburnian Warbler | u | u | ||
| 285. Yellow Warbler | c | c | u | |
| 286. Chestnut-sided Warbler | fc | c | ||
| 287. Blackpoll Warbler | c | r | ||
| 288. Black-throated Blue Warbler | vr | r | ||
| 289. Palm Warbler | fc | fc | vr | |
| 290. Pine Warbler | u | r | vr | r |
| 291. Yellow-rumped Warbler | c | c | u | |
| 292. Yellow-throated Warbler | fc | fc | u | |
| 293. Prairie Warbler | u | vr | ||
| 294. Black-throated Green Warbler | fc | fc | ||
| 295. Canada Warbler | u | fc | ||
| 296. Wilson's Warbler | fc | fc | ||
| 297. Yellow-breasted Chat | fc | fc | r | |
| Family Emberizidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 298. Spotted Towhee | vr | vr | vr | |
| 299. Eastern Towhee | c | c | c | u |
| 300. Bachman's Sparrow - extirpated | ||||
| 301. American Tree Sparrow | u | u | c | |
| 302. Chipping Sparrow | c | c | c | r |
| 303. Clay-colored Sparrow | r | r | ||
| 304. Field Sparrow | c | c | c | fc |
| 305. Vesper Sparrow | u | u | vr | |
| 306. Lark Sparrow | u | u | ||
| 307. Savannah Sparrow | c | c | fc | |
| 308. Grasshopper Sparrow | fc | fc | r | |
| 309. Henslow's Sparrow | u | u | ||
| 310. Le Conte's Sparrow | r | u | r | |
| 311. Nelson's Sparrow | u | |||
| 312. Fox Sparrow | fc | fc | u | |
| 313. Song Sparrow | c | c | c | c |
| 314. Lincoln's Sparrow | u | u | ||
| 315. Swamp Sparrow | c | c | c | |
| 316. White-throated Sparrow | c | c | c | |
| 317. Harris's Sparrow | r | r | r | |
| 318. White-crowned Sparrow | c | c | c | |
| 319. Dark-eyed Junco | c | c | c | |
| Family Cardinalidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 320. Summer Tanager | fc | fc | fc | |
| 321. Scarlet Tanager | fc | fc | fc | |
| 322. Western Tanager | vr | |||
| 323. Northern Cardinal | c | c | c | c |
| 324. Rose-breasted Grosbeak | c | fc | c | |
| 325. Blue Grosbeak | fc | fc | fc | |
| 326. Indigo Bunting | c | c | c | r |
| 327. Dickcissel | c | c | fc | vr |
| Family Icteridae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 328. Bobolink | fc | r | u | |
| 329. Red-winged Blackbird | c | c | c | c |
| 330. Eastern Meadowlark | c | c | c | fc |
| 331. Western Meadowlark | u | r | u | r |
| 332. Yellow-headed Blackbird | r | r | r | |
| 333. Rusty Blackbird | fc | fc | u | |
| 334. Brewer's Blackbird | c | fc | u | |
| 335. Common Grackle | c | c | c | c |
| 336. Great-tailed Grackle | vr | |||
| 337. Brown-headed Cowbird | c | c | c | c |
| 338. Orchard Oriole | fc | fc | u | vr |
| 339. Baltimore Oriole | fc | fc | fc | vr |
| Family Fringillidae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 340. Purple Finch | u | u | u | |
| 341. House Finch - feral | fc | fc | fc | fc |
| 342. Red Crossbill | vr | vr | ||
| 343. White-winged Crossbill | vr | |||
| 344. Common Redpoll | vr | vr | ||
| 345. Pine Siskin | u | u | u | |
| 346. American Goldfinch | c | c | c | c |
| 347. Evening Grosbeak | vr | |||
| Family Passeridae | spring | summer | fall | winter |
| 348. House Sparrow - feral | c | c | c | c |
| 349. Eurasian Tree Sparrow - feral | u | u | u | u |