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The
following is a list
of all 316 species deemed to have occurred in McLean County, Illinois
since
historical times. Last
updated 11 May 2009, it is the
combined knowledge of decades of experience by
many past and present McLean
County birders.
Explanation of
the Number Codes
Each species listed below is
assigned a numbered code in an attempt to quantify it srelative rarity
in the county.
1 - Common - Should not be
missed if looked for in
appropriate
season and habitat.
2 - Uncommon - Present in
appropriate habitat during the
right
season, but not to be expected on every outing.
NOTE--All
species
which
are CODE 3 or higher
should be reported immediately unless otherwise noted.
3 - Occasional - Only
observed a few times per year or
may not occur annually yet may be widespread
in some years. NOTE--All species
which
are CODE 3 or higher
should be reported immediately unless otherwise noted.
4 - Rare - Five or fewer
records in the past ten years:
should
be documented.
5 - Accidental - These
species are well outside their natural
ranges
and are
major news in the statewide birding community; some may have even been
regular in recent memory but are no longer seen in the county: should
be documented.
Boldfaced birds must be
documented in accordance with the
Illinois
Ornithological Society's Review List, or they may be species which
are
exceptional or unrecorded in the county. Documentation forms are free
and available by contacting the numbers below. People who observe
birds
worthy of documentation are highly encouraged to do so.
Italacized names denote
birds which normally breed here; all
others suspected
of nesting should be reported.
WATERFOWL
2
________ Greater White-fronted
Goose
2
________ Snow Goose --
morphs:
2 ________ blue
2 ________ white
3
________ Ross’ Goose (white morph)
2
________ (Richardson's)
Cackling Goose
1
________ Canada Goose
3
________ Mute Swan*
3
________ Trumpeter Swan
4
________ Tundra [Whistling]
Swan
1
________ Wood Duck
1 ________ Gadwall
5 ________ Eurasian Wigeon
1 ________ American Wigeon
2 ________ American Black Duck
1 ________ Mallard
1 ________ Blue-winged Teal
4 ________ Cinnamon
Teal
1 ________ Northern Shoveler
2 ________ Northern Pintail
2 ________ Green-winged Teal
2 ________ Canvasback
2 ________ Redhead
1 ________ Ring-necked Duck
5 ________ Tufted Duck
2 ________ Greater Scaup
1 ________ Lesser Scaup
5 ________ Harlequin Duck
3 ________ Surf Scoter
4 ________ White-winged
Scoter
4 ________ Black Scoter
4 ________ Long-tailed
Duck
(Oldsquaw)
2 ________ Bufflehead
2 ________ Common Goldeneye
2 ________ Hooded Merganser
2 ________ Common Merganser
2 ________ Red-breasted
Merganser
1 ________ Ruddy Duck
GALLINACEOUS BIRDS
1 ________ Ring-necked
Pheasant
2 ________ Wild Turkey
3
________ Northern Bobwhite†
LOONS
4 ________ Red-throated
Loon
2 ________ Common Loon
5 ________ Yellow-billed
Loon
GREBES
1 ________ Pied-billed Grebe
2 ________ Horned Grebe
4 ________ Red-necked
Grebe
4 ________ Eared Grebe
PELICANS and CORMORANTS
3 ________ American White
Pelican
1 ________ Double-crested
Cormorant
HERONS
3 ________ American Bittern
4 ________ Least Bittern
1 ________ Great Blue Heron
2 ________ Great Egret †
4 ________ Snowy Egret
3 ________ Little Blue Heron*
3 ________ Cattle Egret*
1 ________ Green Heron
3 ________ Black-crowned
Night-Heron
4 ________ Yellow-crowned
Night-Heron
NEW WORLD VULTURES
1 ________ Turkey
Vulture
RAPTORS
2 ________ Osprey
4 ________ Mississippi Kite
2 ________ Bald Eagle
2 ________ Northern Harrier
†
2 ________ Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 ________ Cooper's Hawk
3 ________ Northern Goshawk
3 ________ Red-shouldered Hawk
2 ________ Broad-winged Hawk
†
5 ________ Swainson’s Hawk
1 ________ Red-tailed Hawk
- forms:
1 ________ Eastern
4
________ Harlan’s
4 ________ "Krider’s"
4 ________ Western
2 ________ Rough-legged Hawk -
morphs:
2 ________ light
3 ________ dark*
4 ________ Golden Eagle
1 ________ American Kestrel
3 ________ Merlin --
ssp:
3 ________ Taiga
4
________ Prairie
3 ________ Peregrine Falcon
5 ________ Prairie Falcon
RAILS and CRANES
4 ________ Yellow Rail
4 ________ Black Rail
†
4 ________ King Rail
†
2 ________ Virginia Rail***
†
2 ________ Sora*** †
5 ________ Purple Gallinule
4 ________ Common Moorhen
†
1 ________ American Coot
†
3 ________ Sandhill Crane
SHOREBIRDS
- Please report
any
large
concentrations of shorebirds
3 ________ Black-bellied Plover
1 ________ American
Golden-Plover
2 ________ Semipalmated Plover
4 ________ Piping Plover
1 ________ Killdeer
4 ________ Black-necked Stilt
4 ________ American Avocet
1 ________ Greater Yellowlegs
1 ________ Lesser Yellowlegs
1 ________ Solitary Sandpiper
3 ________ Willet
1 ________ Spotted Sandpiper
3 ________ Upland Sandpiper
†
________ Whimbrel**
4 ________ Hudsonian Godwit
4 ________ Marbled Godwit
________ Red
Knot**
4 ________ Ruddy Turnstone
4 ________ Sanderling
1 ________ Semipalmated
Sandpiper
3 ________ Western Sandpiper
1 ________ Least Sandpiper
3 ________ White-rumped
Sandpiper
3 ________ Baird’s Sandpiper
1 ________ Pectoral Sandpiper
2 ________ Dunlin
2 ________ Stilt Sandpiper
3 ________ Buff-breasted
Sandpiper
4 ________ Ruff
2 ________ Short-billed
Dowitcher
3 ________ Long-billed
Dowitcher
1 ________ Wilson's
Snipe
1 ________ American
Woodcock
4 ________ Wilson’s Phalarope
4 ________ Red-necked
Phalarope
GULLS and TERNS
4 ________ Franklin’s Gull
2 ________ Bonaparte’s Gull
1 ________ Ring-billed Gull
3 ________ Herring Gull
4 ________ Thayer's Gull
4 ________ Lesser Black-backed
Gull
4 ________ Great Black-backed
Gull
3 ________ Caspian Tern
3 ________ Common Tern
3 ________ Forster’s Tern
5 ________ Least Tern
2 ________ Black Tern***
†
DOVES
1 ________ Rock Pigeon (Dove)
1 ________ Eurasian
Collared-Dove
1 ________ Mourning Dove
CUCKOOS
2 ________ Black-billed Cuckoo
†
1 ________ Yellow-billed
Cuckoo
OWLS
1 ________ Eastern
Screech-Owl
1 ________ Great Horned Owl
3 ________ Snowy Owl
5 ________ Burrowing Owl
1 ________ Barred Owl
3 ________ Long-eared Owl
3 ________ Short-eared Owl
†
4 ________ Northern Saw-whet
Owl
GOATSUCKERS
1 ________ Common Nighthawk
3 ________ (Northern)
Whip-poor-will †
SWIFTS and HUMMINGBIRDS
1 ________ Chimney Swift
1 ________ Ruby-throated
Hummingbird
________ Rufous
Hummingbird**
KINGFISHERS and WOODPECKERS
1 ________ Belted
Kingfisher
1 ________ Red-headed
Woodpecker
1 ________ Red-bellied
Woodpecker
1 ________ Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker
1 ________ Downy Woodpecker
2 ________ Hairy Woodpecker
5 ________ Black-backed
Woodpecker
1 ________ (Yellow-shafted)
Northern Flicker
5 ________ Pileated
Woodpecker
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
3 ________ Olive-sided
Flycatcher
1 ________ Eastern
Wood-Pewee
2 ________ Yellow-bellied
Flycatcher
2 ________ Acadian Flycatcher
†
2 ________ Alder Flycatcher
2 ________ Willow Flycatcher
†
1 ________ Least Flycatcher
1 ________ Eastern Phoebe
1 ________ Great Crested
Flycatcher
4 ________ Western Kingbird
1 ________ Eastern Kingbird
5 ________ Scissor-tailed
Flycatcher
SHRIKES and VIREOS
4 ________ Northern
Shrike
4 ________ Loggerhead Shrike
†
1 ________ White-eyed Vireo
†
3 ________ Bell’s Vireo
†
2 ________ Blue-headed
[Solitary]
Vireo
2 ________ Yellow-throated
Vireo
1 ________ (Eastern)
Warbling Vireo
2 ________ Philadelphia Vireo
1 ________ Red-eyed Vireo
CORVIDS
1 ________ Blue Jay
1 ________ American Crow
LARKS
1 ________ Horned Lark
SWALLOWS
2 ________ Purple Martin
1 ________ Tree Swallow
1 ________ Northern
Rough-winged
Swallow
1 ________ Bank Swallow
†
1 ________ Cliff Swallow
1 ________ Barn Swallow
TITS, NUTHATCHES and CREEPERS
1 ________ Black-capped
Chickadee
1 ________ Tufted Titmouse
3 ________ Red-breasted
Nuthatch*
1 ________ White-breasted
Nuthatch
1 ________ Brown Creeper
WRENS
5 ________ Rock Wren
1 ________ Carolina Wren
5 ________ Bewick's
Wren †
1 ________ House Wren
2 ________ Winter Wren
2 ________ Sedge Wren
3 ________ Marsh Wren †
OLD WORLD WARBLERS & THRUSHES
1 ________ Golden-crowned
Kinglet
1 ________ Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 ________ Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher
1 ________ Eastern Bluebird
2 ________ Veery †
2 ________ Gray-cheeked Thrush
1 ________ Swainson's Thrush
1 ________ Hermit Thrush
1 ________ Wood Thrush
1 ________ American Robin
MIMIDS and STARLINGS
1 ________ Gray Catbird
2 ________ Northern Mockingbird
1 ________ Brown Thrasher
1 ________ European
Starling
PIPITS
2 ________ American Pipit
5 ________ Sprague's Pipit
WAXWINGS
1 ________ Cedar Waxwing
NEW WORLD WARBLERS
2 ________ Blue-winged Warbler
2 ________ Golden-winged
Warbler
1 ________ Tennessee Warbler
2 ________ Orange-crowned
Warbler
1 ________ Nashville Warbler
2 ________ Northern Parula
1 ________ Yellow Warbler
1 ________ Chestnut-sided
Warbler
1 ________ Magnolia Warbler
2 ________ Cape May Warbler
3 ________ Black-throated
Blue Warbler
1 ________ (Myrtle)
Yellow-rumped
Warbler
1 ________ Black-throated
Green
Warbler
2 ________ Blackburnian Warbler
3 ________ Yellow-throated
Warbler
3 ________ Pine Warbler
3 ________ Prairie Warbler
†
1 ________ (Western) Palm
Warbler
1 ________ Bay-breasted Warbler
1 ________ Blackpoll Warbler
3 ________ Cerulean Warbler
1 ________ Black-and-white
Warbler
1 ________ American Redstart
3 ________ Prothonotary Warbler
†
3 ________ Worm-eating Warbler
1 ________ Ovenbird
2 ________ Louisiana Waterthrush
1 ________ Northern Waterthrush
3 ________ Kentucky Warbler
†
3 ________ Connecticut Warbler
2 ________ Mourning Warbler
1 ________ Common
Yellowthroat
3 ________ Hooded Warbler †
2 ________ Wilson's Warbler
2 ________ Canada Warbler
3 ________ Yellow-breasted Chat
†
TANAGERS
2 ________ Summer Tanager †
2 ________ Scarlet Tanager
NEW WORLD SPARROWS
1 ________ Eastern [Rufous-sided]
Towhee
4 ________ Spotted
[Rufous-sided] Towhee
1 ________ American Tree
Sparrow
1 ________ Chipping Sparrow
4 ________ Clay-colored Sparrow
1 ________ Field Sparrow
1 ________ Vesper Sparrow
4 ________ Lark Sparrow
1 ________ Savannah Sparrow
2 ________ Grasshopper
Sparrow
2 ________ Henslow's Sparrow
4 ________ Le Conte’s
Sparrow
4 ________ Nelson’s
[Sharp-tailed]
Sparrow
1 ________ (Red) Fox Sparrow
1 ________ Song Sparrow
2 ________ Lincoln’s Sparrow
1 ________ Swamp Sparrow
1 ________ White-throated
Sparrow
1 ________ White-crowned
Sparrow
4 ________ Harris'
Sparrow
1 ________ Dark-eyed
Junco
-- races:
1 ________ Slate-colored
4 ________ Oregon
1 ________ Lapland Longspur
2 ________ Smith’s Longspur
3 ________ Snow Bunting
CARDINALS and TROPICAL BUNTINGS
1 ________ Northern
Cardinal
2 ________ Rose-breasted
Grosbeak
5 ________ Black-headed
Grosbeak
4 ________ Blue Grosbeak
1 ________ Indigo Bunting
5 ________ Painted Bunting
1 ________ Dickcissel
ICTERIDS
2 ________ Bobolink †
1 ________ Red-winged
Blackbird
1 ________ Eastern
Meadowlark
3 ________ Western Meadowlark
†
4 ________ Yellow-headed
Blackbird
2 ________ Rusty Blackbird
3 ________ Brewer’s Blackbird
1 ________ Common Grackle
1 ________ Brown-headed
Cowbird
2 ________ Orchard Oriole
1 ________ Baltimore [Northern]
Oriole
TRUE FINCHES
5 ________ Pine Grosbeak
3 ________ Purple Finch
1 ________ House Finch
4 ________ Red Crossbill
†
4 ________ White-winged
Crossbill
3 ________ Common Redpoll
4 ________ Hoary Redpoll
2 ________ Pine Siskin †
1 ________ American
Goldfinch
4 ________ Evening Grosbeak
WEAVERS
1 ________ House Sparrow
2
________ Eurasian Tree Sparrow***†
* - These birds need not be
reported.
** - There are no records of these
species, but they are to be expected. They should be reported
immediately.
*** - These birds should be
reported when observed away from known
locations.
† -
These species have bred or are highly suspected of having bred in the
county, but now do so only rarely. Please report any suspected
breeding
activity.
The following list is of extinct
and extirpated birds; they occurred within the county in historical
times, but no longer. Those with a double dagger (‡) are
extinct.
The others have the potential to occur again.
Ruffed Grouse †
Greater Prairie-Chicken †
Swallow-tailed Kite
Whooping Crane †
Eskimo Curlew ‡
Long-billed Curlew †
Barn Owl †
Passenger Pigeon ‡ †
Carolina Parakeet ‡ †
Bachman’s Sparrow †
If any bird not on this checklist
is seen, it should be reported
immediately.
Reporting
Birds
Please report all
interesting sightings, either by email and/or by phone. Please
email Michael Retter at mlretter
AT yahoo.com
and Dale Birkenholz at
dbirke@ilstu.edu. Or
phone:
Michael
Retter
Dale
Birkenholz
(309)
824-7317
(309)
452-8086
If no one is available at
the above numbers, please leave a
message with at least one of
them.
You are also strongly
encouraged to send a message to the Central Illinois Birding
Forum. If you're signed up, please send an email message to
cilb@googlegroups.com. If not, you may join here.
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