Spring Bird Count 2020

Illinois Statewide 2020 report at https://spring-bird-count.inhs.illinois.edu/files/2021/01/SBC2020_FinalReportUpdated.pdf

- Here is a link to Illinois County compilers - contact the compilers for those counties you can help in.

https://spring-bird-count.inhs.illinois.edu/county-compilers/

And below is the2020 results and contributor list for Cook County for the count

2020 May 9 Cook Spring Count Bird Results

# of hours

521.79

# of Observers

200

# of Parties

153

Start

3:55am

End

8:40pm

Miles Walked

413.02

Miles Driven

182.6

Miles House/Nearby (stationary)

0

Other/bike miles

3.75

Hours Walked

465.08

Hours Driven

21.97

Hours House/Nearby

29.49

Other/bike hours

5.25

SPECIES

Number reported

Canada Goose

2577

Mute Swan

28

Trumpeter Swan

2

Wood Duck

324

Blue-winged Teal

38

Northern Shoveler

1

Gadwall

2

Mallard

1024

Northern Pintail

3

Green-winged Teal

1

Bufflehead

2

Hooded Merganser

19

Common Merganser

2

Red-breasted Merganser

162

Ruddy Duck

3

Ring-necked Pheasant

1

Pied-billed Grebe

15

Horned Grebe

1

Rock Pigeon

407

Eurasian Collared-Dove

1

Mourning Dove

223

Common Nighthawk

5

Eastern Whip-poor-will

3

Chimney Swift

3,065

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

14

Virginia Rail

26

Sora

47

Common Gallinule

7

American Coot

11

Sandhill Crane

18

Piping Plover

2

Killdeer

92

Least Sandpiper

3

Semipalmated Sandpiper

1

American Woodcock

6

Spotted Sandpiper

65

Solitary Sandpiper

21

Greater Yellowlegs

7

Lesser Yellowlegs

19

Ring-billed Gull

1,560

Herring Gull

91

Caspian Tern

372

Common Tern

2

Common Loon

2

Double-crested Cormorant

2,677

American White Pelican

39

American Bittern

3

Great Blue Heron

341

Great Egret

239

Snowy Egret

5

Green Heron

39

Black-crowned Night-Heron

67

Turkey Vulture

106

Osprey

30

Northern Harrier

1

Sharp-shinned Hawk

9

Cooper's Hawk

58

Bald Eagle

15

Red-shouldered Hawk

3

Broad-winged Hawk

3

Red-tailed Hawk

101

Eastern Screech-Owl

2

Great Horned Owl

10

Barred Owl

6

Belted Kingfisher

29

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

11

Red-headed Woodpecker

31

Red-bellied Woodpecker

396

Downy Woodpecker

331

Hairy Woodpecker

89

Pileated Woodpecker

6

Northern Flicker

308

American Kestrel

17

Merlin

3

Peregrine Falcon

3

Olive-sided Flycatcher

1

Eastern Wood-Pewee

7

Acadian Flycatcher

1

Willow Flycatcher

6

Least Flycatcher

29

Eastern Phoebe

94

Great Crested Flycatcher

21

Eastern Kingbird

9

Yellow-throated Vireo

7

Blue-headed Vireo

47

Philadelphia Vireo

3

Warbling Vireo

96

Red-eyed Vireo

4

Blue Jay

688

American Crow

174

Black-capped Chickadee

327

Tufted Titmouse

4

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

510

Purple Martin

36

Tree Swallow

1,393

Bank Swallow

19

Barn Swallow

730

Cliff Swallow

39

Golden-crowned Kinglet

2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

455

Red-breasted Nuthatch

3

White-breasted Nuthatch

209

Brown Creeper

25

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

522

House Wren

272

Winter Wren

2

Sedge Wren

9

Marsh Wren

70

Carolina Wren

5

European Starling

1,362

Gray Catbird

298

Brown Thrasher

51

Northern Mockingbird

1

Eastern Bluebird

125

Veery

8

Gray-cheeked Thrush

6

Swainson's Thrush

28

Hermit Thrush

35

Wood Thrush

22

American Robin

4,422

Cedar Waxwing

50

House Sparrow

1,218

American Pipit

2

House Finch

141

Pine Siskin

2

American Goldfinch

751

Grasshopper Sparrow

1

Chipping Sparrow

166

Clay-colored Sparrow

13

Field Sparrow

115

Dark-eyed Junco

5

White-crowned Sparrow

464

White-throated Sparrow

477

Savannah Sparrow

42

Henslow's Sparrow

15

Song Sparrow

662

Lincoln's Sparrow

52

Swamp Sparrow

154

Eastern Towhee

88

Bobolink

57

Eastern Meadowlark

37

Orchard Oriole

24

Baltimore Oriole

427

Red-winged Blackbird

3,603

Brown-headed Cowbird

760

Common Grackle

1,105

Ovenbird

42

Louisiana Waterthrush

4

Northern Waterthrush

128

Golden-winged Warbler

2

Blue-winged Warbler

10

Black-and-white Warbler

143

Prothonotary Warbler

11

Tennessee Warbler

10

Orange-crowned Warbler

19

Nashville Warbler

173

Kentucky Warbler

1

Common Yellowthroat

213

American Redstart

7

Cape May Warbler

4

Northern Parula

11

Magnolia Warbler

16

Bay-breasted Warbler

1

Blackburnian Warbler

6

Yellow Warbler

215

Chestnut-sided Warbler

19

Blackpoll Warbler

1

Black-throated Blue Warbler

2

Palm Warbler

662

Pine Warbler

8

Yellow-rumped Warbler

366

Yellow-throated Warbler

3

Prairie Warbler

2

Black-throated Green Warbler

101

Canada Warbler

2

Wilson's Warbler

3

Summer Tanager

3

Scarlet Tanager

9

Northern Cardinal

690

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

130

Indigo Bunting

61

Dickcissel

3

Other:

Mallard X Black Duck hybrid

1

Mallard - domestic

7

shorebird species

1

Larus gull species

21

Gull species

19

Common/Forster's Sterna tern species

2

Accipiter species

2

Buteo species

2

hawk species

5

Downy/Hairy woodpecker

1

woodpecker species

1

Falcon species

1

Empi species (alder/willow)

2

Flycatcher species

2

Swallow species

4

Wren species

1

Thrush species

4

Sparrow species

8

blackbird species

143

warbler species

9

A big thank you again to all of those whose bird sightings were able to be included in the Cook County Spring Bird Count tabulation!

Names of 2020 participants and contributors

Veronica Anadon, Pat Andersen, Alan Anderson, Jill Anderson, Rob Andrade, Mary Anicich, David Antieau, Dan Anzia, Jeff Armstrong

Vinod Babu, Robert Bailey, Margaret Baker, Bryan Bakker, Kelly Ballantyne, Rod Barbo, John Bates, Steve Bayer, Jack Bechtel, Stephanie Beilke, Mary Bernat, Keith Bowers, Steve Brabend, Betsy Brill, David Brooks, Nancy Buis

Dion Carmona, Pam Carmona, Lynne Carpenter, Susan Carton, Nancy Casper, Suzanne Checchia, Judy Cheske, Suzanne Coleman, Shana Conner, Jacob C. Cooper, Aiden Cullen

Mike Dani, Kris DaPra, Graham Deet, Suzy Deet, Laura Derks, Eleonora diLiscia, Brandon Doherty, Jamie Doherty, Bob Dolgan, Ryan Donahue, Karin Drogemueller, Jacob Drucker, Cyndi Duda, Tony Dynek

Margaret Earsley, Lynn Eikenbary, John Elliott, Josh Engel

Elaine Feldman, Marilyn Ferdinand, Carol Fialkowski, Conrad Fialkowski, Sarah Flax, Jenny Flexman, Antonio Flores, Maria Flores, Lila Fried, Ryan Fuller

Declan Gallagher, Ema Gavrilovic, Eri Geroulis, Glenn Giacinto, Eric Ginsburg, Carl Giometti, Elisa Gores, Woody Goss, Henry Griffin, Jessica Grunow, Dave Gruver, Eric Gyllenhaal

Alaina Harkness, Jeff Hardt, Duane Heaton, Mary Hennen, Brian Herner, Joanna Hosteny, David Hoyt, Steve Huggins, Anna Hughes, Annette Huizenga, Tim Huizenga

Tamima Itani

Scott Judd

Pamela Karlson, Gretel Kiefer, Ron Klingensmith, Grant Koch, Tom Kreiling, Katy Krigbaum, Sandra Kroll, Larry Krutulis, Ron Kurowski, Krzysztof Kuryowicz

Tom Lally, Alex Landberg, Eric Larson, Laura Larson, Barbara Laughin-Karon, John Leonard, Michael Levin, Dan Lory, Peter Lowther, Mark Luscombe, Linda Lutz, Nathan Lynch

Alan Magerkurth, Walter Marcisz, Adrian Marquez, Dennis Marton, Linda Marton, John McCabe, Molly McGown, Michael McNamee, Colleen McVeigh, Mary Lou Mellon, Gary Melman, Ruth Metterhausen, Max Metz, Sarah J. Miller, Brock Moran, Fran Morel, Anita L. Morgan, Liz Moyer, Thomas M. Mulcahy, Maureen Murphy, Lisa Musgrave, Cheryl Muth

James Nathan, Marian Nicksich, Jill Niland

Melissa Owens

Stephen Packard, Zachary Paradis, Justin Pepper, Phyllis Pettrilli, Jim Phillips, Kristin Pink, Judy Pollock

Peter Quagliana

Leslie Rachlin, Kate Ranft, Mary Rice, Trisha Rich, Paul Roots, Sarah Roots, Lauren Ross, Kay Rossiter

Jeffrey Sanders, Rebeccah Sanders, Sigrid Schmidt, Alan Seelye-James, Paul Senner, Randy Shonkwiler, Andrea Simon, Laura Simpson, Jeffrey Skrentny, Peggy Sloan, Stan Stec, Jennie Strable, Al Stokie, Doug Stotz, Marcia Suchy, Katy Swindell, Susan Szeszol

Heidi Tarasiuk, Brenda Thompson, Mark Thompson, Andrea Tolzmann, Peter Tolzmann, Simon Tolzmann, Anthie Tsakalios, Michael John Turner

Jacob Vinsel, Jenny Vogt

David Wachtel, Richard Wachtel, Sam Wachtel, Stuart Wagenius, Joe Wall, John Wall, Michael Wall, Lorrie Ward, Edward Warden, David Warner, Kathleen Watterlohn, Linda Waycie, Ben Weiss, Jack Westwood, Chris Williamson, Ryan Wilson, Ken Wysocki

Amanda Zeigler, Ben Zera, Derek Ziomber

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@comcast.net  Des Plaines 

Palm Warbler photo by Carol Freeman