Last May 5th (2018), 181 participants in the Cook County portion of the Illinois Spring Bird Count found 208 species, one off the county record of 209, set in 2015.
Below is the list of bird species that were found on the 2018 count in Cook County:
(note: to see the 2018 Spring Bird Count report for the entire state, to go
https://www.inhs.illinois.edu/files/4415/5182/3043/SBC2018_Report.pdf )
Results of the Spring Count in Cook County - May 5, 2018
County Name COOK; Alan Anderson, Compiler
# of hours - 437.76; # of Observers - 181; # of Parties - 93
Start 3:45am; End 9:50pm
Miles Walked 270.98; Miles Driven 270.83
Hours Walked 92.72; Hours Driven 25.91
Other (stationary and feeder watches) 19.13
Date 5/5/2018
Snow Goose -1
Greater White-fronted Goose -1
Canada Goose -1689
Mute Swan - 48
Wood Duck - 247
Blue-winged Teal -157
Northern Shoveler - 32
Gadwall -13
American Wigeon - 2
Mallard - 727
American Black Duck - 1
Green-winged Teal - 6
Lesser Scaup - 38
Bufflehead - 65
Common Goldeneye - 2
Hooded Merganser - 13
Common Merganser - 8
Red-breasted Merganser - 601
Ruddy Duck - 21
Common Loon - 4
Pied-billed Grebe - 48
Horned Grebe - 16
Eared Grebe - 2
Double-crested Cormorant - 3282
American White Pelican - 51
American Bittern - 4
Least Bittern - 1
Great Blue Heron - 300
Great Egret - 256
Green Heron - 106
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 128
Turkey Vulture - 62
Osprey - 15
Northern Harrier - 7
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 37
Bald Eagle - 4
Red-shouldered Hawk - 3
Broad-winged Hawk - 3
Red-tailed Hawk - 80
King Rail - 1
Virginia Rail - 10
Sora -129
Common Gallinule - 2
American Coot - 372
Sandhill Crane - 14
American Avocet - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 1
Killdeer - 105
Sanderling - 7
Dunlin - 2
Least Sandpiper - 69
Pectoral Sandpiper - 18
Short-billed Dowitcher - 9
American Woodcock - 3
Wilson's Snipe - 71
Wilson's Phalarope - 7
Spotted Sandpiper - 121
Solitary Sandpiper - 119
Greater Yellowlegs - 21
Willet - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 95
Bonaparte's Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 3625
Herring Gull - 70
Caspian Tern - 366
Common Tern - 3
Forster's Tern - 11
Rock Pigeon - 258
Eurasian Collared-Dove - 7
Mourning Dove - 322
Eastern Screech-Owl - 2
Great Horned Owl - 9
Barred Owl - 2
Common Nighthawk - 7
Chimney Swift - 253
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 16
Belted Kingfisher - 29
Red-headed Woodpecker - 39
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 242
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 286
Hairy Woodpecker - 51
Northern Flicker - 219
Pileated Woodpecker - 3
American Kestrel - 14
Peregrine Falcon - 4
Monk Parakeet - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 13
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher - 1
Willow Flycatcher - 10
Least Flycatcher - 36
Eastern Phoebe - 54
Great Crested Flycatcher - 51
Eastern Kingbird - 36
White-eyed Vireo - 9
Yellow-throated Vireo - 11
Blue-headed Vireo - 27
Philadelphia Vireo - 2
Warbling Vireo - 106
Red-eyed Vireo - 24
Blue Jay - 700
American Crow - 140
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 515
Purple Martin - 135
Tree Swallow - 579
Bank Swallow - 41
Barn Swallow - 566
Cliff Swallow - 97
Black-capped Chickadee - 254
Tufted Titmouse - 10
Red-breasted Nuthatch - 8
White-breasted Nuthatch - 108
Brown Creeper - 27
House Wren - 273
Winter Wren - 2
Sedge Wren - 10
Marsh Wren - 60
Carolina Wren - 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 346
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 27
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 411
Eastern Bluebird - 40
Veery - 73
Gray-cheeked Thrush - 100
Swainson's Thrush - 547
Hermit Thrush - 45
Wood Thrush - 52
American Robin - 2529
Gray Catbird - 695
Brown Thrasher - 85
Northern Mockingbird - 2
European Starling - 825
American Pipit - 4
Cedar Waxwing - 22
Ovenbird - 122
Worm-eating Warbler - 1
Louisiana Waterthrush - 5
Northern Waterthrush - 365
Golden-winged Warbler - 15
Blue-winged Warbler - 26
Black-and-white Warbler - 202
Prothonotary Warbler - 13
Tennessee Warbler - 68
Orange-crowned Warbler - 41
Nashville Warbler - 219
Mourning Warbler - 2
Kentucky Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 327
Hooded Warbler - 3
American Redstart - 94
Cape May Warbler - 11
Cerulean Warbler - 2
Northern Parula - 33
Magnolia Warbler - 57
Bay-breasted Warbler - 13
Blackburnian Warbler - 23
Yellow Warbler - 475
Chestnut-sided Warbler - 35
Blackpoll Warbler - 20
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 13
Palm Warbler - 3223
Pine Warbler - 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1775
Yellow-throated Warbler - 2
Prairie Warbler - 3
Black-throated Green Warbler - 99
Wilson's Warbler - 13
Grasshopper Sparrow - 12
Henslow's Sparrow - 6
LeConte's Sparrow - 3
Nelson's Sparrow - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 139
Clay-colored Sparrow - 24
Field Sparrow - 153
Lark Sparrow - 7
Fox Sparrow - 1
Dark-eyed Junco - 8
White-crowned Sparrow - 889
White-throated Sparrow - 1430
Vesper Sparrow - 6
Savannah Sparrow - 152
Song Sparrow - 595
Lincoln's Sparrow - 85
Swamp Sparrow - 795
Eastern Towhee - 108
Yellow-breasted Chat - 3
Summer Tanager - 11
Scarlet Tanager - 20
Western Tanager - 1
Northern Cardinal - 489
Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 128
Indigo Bunting - 51
Dickcissel - 1
Yellow-headed Blackbird - 4
Bobolink - 50
Eastern Meadowlark - 50
Orchard Oriole - 14
Baltimore Oriole - 187
Red-winged Blackbird - 3688
Brown-headed Cowbird - 820
Common Grackle - 784
House Finch - 97
Purple Finch - 1
Pine Siskin - 11
American Goldfinch - 697
House Sparrow - 801
White-winged Dove - 1
other:
duck species - 7
heron species - 1
accipiter species - 2
dowitcher species - 1
shorebird species - 6
Larus gull species - 76
Common/Forster's Tern - 1
Traill's flycatcher (Willow/Alder) - 1
empidonax species - 3
flycatcher species - 4
swallow species - 5
Catherus thrush species - 5
Siurus waterthrush species (No./Louisiana) - 6
warbler species - 5
Am. Tree/Chipping Sparrow - 6
sparrow species - 4
blackbird species - 266
passerine species - 2
Purple Finch/Am. Goldfinch hybrid - 1
Participants in Cook County portion of Illinois Spring Bird Count, May 5, 2018
Thank you to the following people who participated in and contributed their bird sightings in Cook County, to the Illinois Spring Bird Count:
Jeff Armstrong, Andrew Steinmann, Rebecca Steinmann, John Wall, Linda Lutz,
Michael Hogg, Rachel Sullivan, Gretel Kiefer, Benjamin Fosque, David Brooks,
Mary Rice, Lynn Eikenbary, Carol Thomas, Marilyn Schmidling, Jim Baum,
Betty Bei, Peg Dorgan, Gloria Moritz, Adrian Sydor, Angela Waidanz, Diane Carter,
Gail Ameer, Shirley Pulgar Hughes, Katya Mischenko-Mycyk, Nancy Buis,
Michael McNamee, Cary Hillegonds, Suzanne Checchia , Mary Bernat,
Staff at Camp Sagawau Environmental Learning Center, Paul Clifford, Paul Clyne,
Randy Shonkwiler, Patricia A. Durkin, Marian Nicksich, Eddie Ng, Gayle Grindley,
Steven Klinczak, Kim Harmon, Bruce McCullough, Eric Ginsburg, Jennie Strable,
Karin Droegemueller, Catherine Griffin, Ryan Benson, David Priddy, Jeremija Hranjec,
Elaine Glusac, Renate Gokl, Erika Dix, Raman Shah, Mary Hennen,
John Bates, Ben Marks, Akiko Shinya
Mike Dani, Frank Dani, Josh Engel, Amanda Zeigler, Matthew Cvetas, Ray Pershing,
Linda Gohlke, Qianwen Rockoff, Adiadnew Luh, Jack Rosalie,
Ryan Fuller, Anna Petrosky, Steve Huggins, Matt Igelski, Vickie Igleski,
Glenn Giacinto, Peter Lowther, Dave Gruver, Tom Kreiling, Eriko Kojima,
Stephen Packard, Walter Marcisz, Margaret Baker, Stephanie Belkie,
Alison Giometti, Carl Giometti, Leo Giometti, Aerin Tedesco
Duane Heaton, Mike Levin, Kristen Wacker, Adrian Marquez, Dennis Marton,
Charley Branson, William Branson, Fernando Castro, Elaine Feldman,
Glenn Forchione, Kris Gallagher, Ryan Holmes, Matthew Kauth, Grant Koch,
Paul Koch, Debra Koss, Katy Krigbaum, Linda Marton, Jim Monchak,
Nadia Monchak, Jeff Skrentny, Mary Zaander, Derek Ziomber, Tom Lally,
Joe Lill, J Hardt, John Leonard, Anita Morgan, Bob Bailey, Jill Niland,
Linda Cames, Shawn Pfautsch, Judy Pollock, Marjorie Pries, Paul Strand,
Carol Strand, Jake Huffman, Alex Palmer, Jill Wood, Richard Wood,
Stanley Stec, Marcia Suchy, Steve Flexman, Christine Williamson,
Jeffrey Sanders, Susan Szeszol, Kay Knight, Sonia DaSilva, Jim Jarosz,
Eleonara di Liscia, Marilyn Ferdinand, Hal Cohen, Mike Ahasay,
Eric D.Gyllenhaal, Ethan F. Fisher, Jill Anderson, John Elliott
Alan Anderson, Suzanne Coleman, Eric Myers, Ethan Myers, David Antieau,
Bob Hughes, Tom Kelly, Fran Morel, Geoffrey Williamson, Andrew Aldrich,
Bob Dolgan, Cynthia Harris, Henry Griffin, Luis Munoz, Krzysztof Kurylowicz,
Ben Sanders, Isoo O’Brien, Simon Tolzmann, Susannah Hera, CK P,
Kurtis Himmler, Tim Huizenga, Annette Huizenga, Mark Thompson,
Laura Larson, Eric Larson, Sharon Lindner, Michelle Devlin, Heidi Tarasiuk
David Wachtel, Lynne P. Carpenter, Rick Wachtel, Keith Jones, Vicki Senter,
Kathryn Appelbaum, C. Esposito, Sandra Kroll, Gene Wachtel, Laurel Ross,
Eri Geroulis, Tamima Itani, Amanda Tichacek and Jeff Bilsky