Illinois Ornithological Records Committee State Checklist Form

Illinois Checklist of the Birds of Illinois
updated September
ANSERIFORMES
Anatidae
GALLIFORMES
Phasianidae
(I)
Odontophoridae
GAVIIFORMES
Gaviidae
PODICIPEDIFORMES
Podicipedidae
PELECANIFORMES
Sulidae
Pelecanidae
Phalacrocoracidae
Anhingidae
Fregatidae
CICONIIFORMES
Ardeidae
Threskiornithidae
Ciconiidae
Cathartidae
FALCONIFORMES
Accipitridae
Falconidae
GRUIFORMES
Rallidae
Gruidae
CHARDADRIIFORMES
Charadriidae
Plover
Recurvirostridae
Scolopacidae
Laridae
Stercorariidae
Alcidae
COLUMBIFORMES
Columbidae
(I)
PSITTACIFORMES
Psittacidae
CUCULIFORMES
Cuculidae
STRIGIFORMES
Tytonidae
Strigidae
CAPR5MULGIFORMES
Caprimulgidae
APODIFORMES
Apodidae
Trochilidae
CORACIIFORMES
Alcedinidae
PICIFORMES
Picidae
PASSERIFORMES
Tyrannidae
Laniidae
Vireonidae
Corvidae
Alaudidae
Hirundinidae
Paridae
Sittidae
Certhiidae
Troglodytidae
Regulidae
Sylviidae
Turdidae
Mimidae
Sturnidae
Motacillidae
Bombycillidae
Parulidae
Thraupidae
Emberizidae
Sparrow
Cardinalidae
Icteridae
Fringillidae
Passeridae
Ornithological Records Committee
21, 2008
1. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2. Fulvous Whistling-Duck
3. Greater White-fronted Goose
4. Snow Goose
5. Ross's Goose
6. Brant
7. Cackling Goose
8. Canada Goose
9. Mute Swan (I)
10. Trumpeter Swan
11. Tundra Swan
12. Wood Duck
13. Gadwall
14. Eurasian Wigeon
15. American Wigeon
16. American Black Duck
17. Mallard
18. Mottled Duck
19. Blue-winged Teal
20. Cinnamon Teal
21. Northern Shoveler
22. Northern Pintail
23. Garganey
24. Green-winged Teal
25. Canvasback
26. Redhead
27. Ring-necked Duck
28. Tufted Duck
29. Greater Scaup
30. Lesser Scaup
31. King Eider
32. Common Eider
33. Harlequin Duck
34. Surf Scoter
35. White-winged Scoter
36. Black Scoter
37. Long-tailed Duck
38. Bufflehead
39. Common Goldeneye
40. Barrow's Goldeneye
41. Hooded Merganser
42. Common Merganser
43. Red-breasted Merganser
44. Ruddy Duck
45. Gray Partridge (I)
46. Ring-necked Pheasant 47. Ruffed Grouse
48. Sharp-tailed Grouse
49. Greater Prairie-Chicken
50. Wild Turkey
51. Northern Bobwhite
52. Red-throated Loon
53. Pacific Loon
54. Common Loon
55. Yellow-billed Loon
56. Pied-billed Grebe
57. Horned Grebe
58. Red-necked Grebe
59. Eared Grebe
60. Western Grebe
61. Clark's Grebe
62. Northern Gannet
63. American White Pelican
64. Brown Pelican
65. Neotropic Cormorant
66. Double-crested Cormorant
67. Anhinga
68. Magnificent Frigatebird
69. American Bittern
70. Least Bittern
71. Great Blue Heron
72. Great Egret
73. Snowy Egret
74. Little Blue Heron
75. Tricolored Heron
76. Reddish Egret
77. Cattle Egret
78. Green Heron
79. Black-crowned Night-Heron
80. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
81. White Ibis
82. Glossy Ibis
83. White-faced Ibis
84. Roseate Spoonbill
85. Wood Stork
86. Black Vulture
87. Turkey Vulture
88. Osprey
89. Swallow-tailed Kite
90. White-tailed Kite
91. Mississippi Kite
92. Bald Eagle
93. Northern Harrier
94. Sharp-shinned Hawk
95. Cooper's Hawk
96. Northern Goshawk
97. Red-shouldered Hawk
98. Broad-winged Hawk
99. Swainson's Hawk
100. Red-tailed Hawk
101. Ferruginous Hawk
102. Rough-legged Hawk
103. Golden Eagle
104. American Kestrel
105. Merlin
106. Gyrfalcon
107. Peregrine Falcon
108. Prairie Falcon
109. Yellow Rail
110. Black Rail
111. King Rail
112. Virginia Rail
113. Sora
114. Purple Gallinule
115. Common Moorhen
116. American Coot
117. Sandhill Crane
118. Whooping Crane
119. Black-bellied Plover
120. American Golden-Plover
121. Snowy Plover
122. Wilson's 123. Semipalmated Plover
124. Piping Plover
125. Killdeer
126. Mountain Plover
127. Black-necked Stilt
128. American Avocet
129. Spotted Sandpiper
130. Solitary Sandpiper
131. Greater Yellowlegs
132. Willet
133. Lesser Yellowlegs
134. Upland Sandpiper
135. Eskimo Curlew
136. Whimbrel
137. Long-billed Curlew
138. Hudsonian Godwit
139. Marbled Godwit
140. Ruddy Turnstone
141. Red Knot
142. Sanderling
143. Semipalmated Sandpiper
144. Western Sandpiper
145. Least Sandpiper
146. White-rumped Sandpiper
147. Baird's Sandpiper
148. Pectoral Sandpiper
149. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
150. Purple Sandpiper
151. Dunlin
152. Curlew Sandpiper
153. Stilt Sandpiper
154. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
155. Ruff
156. Short-billed Dowitcher
157. Long-billed Dowitcher
158. Wilson's Snipe
159. American Woodcock
160. Wilson's Phalarope
161. Red-necked Phalarope
162. Red Phalarope
163. Black-legged Kittiwake
164. Ivory Gull
165. Sabine's Gull
166. Bonaparte's Gull
167. Black-headed Gull
168. Little Gull
169. Ross's Gull
170. Laughing Gull
171. Franklin's Gull
172. Black-tailed Gull
173. Mew Gull
174. Ring-billed Gull
175. Western Gull
176. California Gull
177. Herring Gull
178. Thayer's Gull
179. Iceland Gull
180. Lesser Black-backed Gull
181. Slaty-backed Gull
182. Glaucous-winged Gull
183. Glaucous Gull
184. Great Black-backed Gull
185. Sooty Tern
186. Least Tern
187. Large-billed Tern
188. Gull-billed Tern
189. Caspian Tern
190. Black Tern
191. Common Tern
192. Arctic Tern
193. Forster's Tern
194. Royal Tern
195. Sandwich Tern
196. Black Skimmer
197. Pomarine Jaeger
198. Parasitic Jaeger
199. Long-tailed Jaeger
200. Dovekie
201. Ancient Murrelet
202. Rock Pigeon (I)
203. Band-tailed Pigeon
204. Eurasian Collared-Dove 205. White-winged Dove
206. Mourning Dove
207. Passenger Pigeon
208. Inca Dove
209. Common Ground-Dove
210. Monk Parakeet (I)
211. Carolina Parakeet
212. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
213. Black-billed Cuckoo
214. Groove-billed Ani
215. Barn Owl
216. Eastern Screech-Owl
217. Great Horned Owl
218. Snowy Owl
219. Northern Hawk Owl
220. Burrowing Owl
221. Barred Owl
222. Long-eared Owl
223. Short-eared Owl
224. Boreal Owl
225. Northern Saw-whet Owl
226. Common Nighthawk
227. Chuck-will's-widow
228. Whip-poor-will
229. Chimney Swift
230. Broad-billed Hummingbird
231. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
232. Rufous Hummingbird
233. Allen's Hummingbird
234. Belted Kingfisher
235. Red-headed Woodpecker
236. Red-bellied Woodpecker
237. Williamson's Sapsucker
238. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
239. Downy Woodpecker
240. Hairy Woodpecker
241. Red-cockaded Woodpecker
242. Black-backed Woodpecker
243. Northern Flicker
244. Pileated Woodpecker
245. Olive-sided Flycatcher
246. Eastern Wood-Pewee
247. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
248. Acadian Flycatcher
249. Alder Flycatcher
250. Willow Flycatcher
251. Least Flycatcher
252. Eastern Phoebe
253. Say's Phoebe
254. Vermilion Flycatcher
255. Ash-throated Flycatcher
256. Great Crested Flycatcher
257. Tropical/Couch's Kingbird
258. Western Kingbird
259. Eastern Kingbird
260. Gray Kingbird
261. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
262. Fork-tailed Flycatcher
263. Loggerhead Shrike
264. Northern Shrike
265. White-eyed Vireo
266. Bell's Vireo
267. Yellow-throated Vireo
268. Blue-headed Vireo
269. Warbling Vireo
270. Philadelphia Vireo
271. Red-eyed Vireo
272. Blue Jay
273. Western Scrub-Jay
274. Clark's Nutcracker
275. Black-billed Magpie
276. American Crow
277. Fish Crow
278. Common Raven
279. Horned Lark
280. Purple Martin
281. Tree Swallow
282. Violet-green Swallow
283. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
284. Bank Swallow
285. Cliff Swallow
286. Cave Swallow
287. Barn Swallow
288. Carolina Chickadee
289. Black-capped Chickadee
290. Boreal Chickadee
291. Tufted Titmouse
292. Red-breasted Nuthatch
293. White-breasted Nuthatch
294. Brown-headed Nuthatch
295. Brown Creeper
296. Rock Wren
297. Carolina Wren
298. Bewick's Wren
299. House Wren
300. Winter Wren
301. Sedge Wren
302. Marsh Wren
303. Golden-crowned Kinglet
304. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
305. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
306. Northern Wheatear
307. Eastern Bluebird
308. Mountain Bluebird
309. Townsend's Solitaire
310. Veery
311. Gray-cheeked Thrush
312. Swainson's Thrush
313. Hermit Thrush
314. Wood Thrush
315. American Robin
316. Varied Thrush
317. Gray Catbird
318. Northern Mockingbird
319. Sage Thrasher
320. Brown Thrasher
321. Curve-billed Thrasher
322. European Starling (I)
323. American Pipit
324. Sprague's Pipit
325. Bohemian Waxwing
326. Cedar Waxwing
327. Blue-winged Warbler
328. Golden-winged Warbler
329. Tennessee Warbler
330. Orange-crowned Warbler
331. Nashville Warbler
332. Northern Parula
333. Yellow Warbler
334. Chestnut-sided Warbler
335. Magnolia Warbler
336. Cape May Warbler
337. Black-throated Blue Warbler
338. Yellow-rumped Warbler
339. Black-throated Gray Warbler
340. Black-throated Green Warbler
341. Townsend's Warbler
342. Hermit Warbler
343. Blackburnian Warbler
344. Yellow-throated Warbler
345. Grace's Warbler
346. Pine Warbler
347. Kirtland's Warbler
348. Prairie Warbler
349. Palm Warbler
350. Bay-breasted Warbler
351. Blackpoll Warbler
352. Cerulean Warbler
353. Black-and-white Warbler
354. American Redstart
355. Prothonotary Warbler
356. Worm-eating Warbler
357. Swainson's Warbler
358. Ovenbird
359. Northern Waterthrush
360. Louisiana Waterthrush
361. Kentucky Warbler
362. Connecticut Warbler
363. Mourning Warbler
364. MacGillivray's Warbler
365. Common Yellowthroat
366. Hooded Warbler
367. Wilson's Warbler
368. Canada Warbler
369. Yellow-breasted Chat
370. Hepatic Tanager
371. Summer Tanager
372. Scarlet Tanager
373. Western Tanager
374. Green-tailed Towhee
375. Spotted Towhee
376. Eastern Towhee
377. Cassin's Sparrow
378. Bachman's Sparrow
379. American Tree Sparrow
380. Chipping Sparrow
381. Clay-colored Sparrow
382. Brewer's Sparrow
383. Field Sparrow
384. Vesper Sparrow
385. Lark Sparrow
386. Black-throated Sparrow
387. Lark Bunting
388. Savannah Sparrow
389. Grasshopper Sparrow
390. Henslow's Sparrow
391. Le Conte's Sparrow
392. Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
393. Fox 394. Song Sparrow
395. Lincoln's Sparrow
396. Swamp Sparrow
397. White-throated Sparrow
398. Harris's Sparrow
399. White-crowned Sparrow
400. Golden-crowned Sparrow
401. Dark-eyed Junco
402. Lapland Longspur
403. Smith's Longspur
404. Chestnut-collared Longspur
405. Snow Bunting
406. Northern Cardinal
407. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
408. Black-headed Grosbeak
409. Blue Grosbeak
410. Lazuli Bunting
411. Indigo Bunting
412. Painted Bunting
413. Dickcissel
414. Bobolink
415. Red-winged Blackbird
416. Eastern Meadowlark
417. Western Meadowlark
418. Yellow-headed Blackbird
419. Rusty Blackbird
420. Brewer's Blackbird
421. Common Grackle
422. Great-tailed Grackle
423. Brown-headed Cowbird
424. Orchard Oriole
425. Baltimore Oriole
426. Scott's Oriole
427. Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
428. Pine Grosbeak
429. Purple Finch
430. House Finch
431. Red Crossbill
432. White-winged Crossbill
433. Common Redpoll
434. Hoary Redpoll
435. Pine Siskin
436. American Goldfinch
437. Evening Grosbeak
438. House Sparrow (I)
439. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (I)