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