this years Illinois Spring Bird Count, May 6, 2023 and last years results

[ALAN ANDERSON]

The Illinois Spring Bird Count (ISBC)  this year will be Saturday, May 6th.

Find basic information here on the home page for the count:

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

Below are the results for Cook County for the May 7, 2022 count.

Find information on past results on the Spring Count home page or

https://spring-bird-count.inhs.illinois.edu/files/2023/02/SBC2022_Report.pdf

I am compiling the results for Cook County once again.  If you've helped in the past, it would be great/best if you could cover the same areas again.   And it always seem areas in far south and south-central Cook Co. need more coverage.  To help, just go birding in Cook County and report your sightings in eBird, and after let me know what preserve you helped in and the checklist number (or send me the checklist in email after emailing it to yourself).  Or use the form on the ISBC home page (print, fill out and mail to me, or save, fill and email an attachment).

https://spring-bird-count.inhs.illinois.edu/files/2023/04/SBC_Volunteer_SpeciesList2023.pdf 

We can always use more helpers!   See contact for other county compilers here:

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

Thank you and good birding!

Alan Anderson

casre...@comcast.net   

1633 Howard Avenue, Des Plaines  60018

Coordinator/compiler for Cook County portion of Illinois Spring Bird Count

Chicago Audubon Society Research Committee, www.chicagoaudubon.org

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Results for Cook County for the 2022 Illinois Spring Bird Count (May 7, 22)

Illinois Spring Bird Count  County	7 May  2022 Cook Co. results
# of Total Party Hours	484.99
# of Observers	217
# of Parties	133
Earliest Start Time	4:15
Latest End Time	20:58
Miles Walked	380.49
Miles Driven	331.54
Other	-0-
Hours Walked	446.85
Hours Driven	17.81
Other  (stationary)	20.33
Date	7-May-22
Cook County Coordinator:	Alan Anderson
Common Name	# of Individuals
Canada Goose	1716
Mute Swan	17
Trumpeter Swan	1
Wood Duck	202
Blue-winged Teal	148
Northern Shoveler	17
Gadwall	21
Mallard	961
Northern Pintail	1
Green-winged Teal	2
Canvasback	1
Redhead	2
Ring-necked Duck	52
Lesser Scaup	34
Bufflehead	13
Hooded Merganser	18
Common Merganser	1
Red-breasted Merganser	263
Ruddy Duck	54
Wild Turkey	1
Ring-necked Pheasant	1
Pied-billed Grebe	26
Rock Pigeon	204
Eurasian Collared-Dove	1
Mourning Dove	266
Eastern Whip-poor-will	1
Chimney Swift	594
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	18
King Rail	2
Virginia Rail	16
Sora	67
Common Gallinule	4
American Coot	83
Yellow Rail	1
Sandhill Crane	39
Piping Plover	1
Killdeer	108
Upland Sandpiper	3
Ruddy Turnstone	1
Sanderling	5
Dunlin	7
American Woodcock	3
Wilson's Snipe	18
Spotted Sandpiper	66
Solitary Sandpiper	73
Greater Yellowlegs	4
Willet	7
Lesser Yellowlegs	6
Franklin's Gull	2
Ring-billed Gull	2559
Herring Gull	148
Caspian Tern	574
Forster's Tern	7
Common Loon	2
Double-crested Cormorant	6628
American White Pelican	38
American Bittern	7
Least Bittern	1
Great Blue Heron	414
Great Egret	125
Green Heron	71
Black-crowned Night-Heron	345
Turkey Vulture	142
Osprey	22
Sharp-shinned Hawk	5
Cooper's Hawk	64
Bald Eagle	20
Red-shouldered Hawk	3
Broad-winged Hawk	24
Red-tailed Hawk	103
Eastern Screech-Owl	3
Great Horned Owl	9
Barred Owl	9
Belted Kingfisher	43
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	20
Red-headed Woodpecker	33
Red-bellied Woodpecker	314
Downy Woodpecker	332
Hairy Woodpecker	71
Pileated Woodpecker	7
Northern Flicker	292
American Kestrel	23
Merlin	1
Peregrine Falcon	7
Monk Parakeet	16
Eastern Wood-Pewee	11
Willow Flycatcher	7
Least Flycatcher	31
Eastern Phoebe	73
Great Crested Flycatcher	47
Eastern Kingbird	56
White-eyed Vireo	3
Yellow-throated Vireo	8
Blue-headed Vireo	42
Philadelphia Vireo	1
Warbling Vireo	58
Red-eyed Vireo	2
Blue Jay	842
American Crow	199
Black-capped Chickadee	357
Tufted Titmouse	21
Horned Lark	2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow	940
Purple Martin	121
Tree Swallow	1009
Bank Swallow	88
Barn Swallow	811
Cliff Swallow	231
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	533
Golden-crowned Kinglet	13
Red-breasted Nuthatch	13
White-breasted Nuthatch	161
Brown Creeper	32
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	389
House Wren	356
Winter Wren	5
Sedge Wren	9
Marsh Wren	50
Carolina Wren	6
European Starling	1025
Gray Catbird	342
Brown Thrasher	46
Northern Mockingbird	2
Eastern Bluebird	58
Veery	11
Gray-cheeked Thrush	10
Swainson's Thrush	98
Hermit Thrush	25
Wood Thrush	32
American Robin	2949
Cedar Waxwing	21
House Sparrow	1084
American Pipit	2
House Finch	240
Purple Finch	10
American Goldfinch	664
Grasshopper Sparrow	3
Chipping Sparrow	262
Clay-colored Sparrow	8
Field Sparrow	142
Lark Sparrow	2
American Tree Sparrow	1
Fox Sparrow	1
Dark-eyed Junco	5
White-crowned Sparrow	426
White-throated Sparrow	905
Vesper Sparrow	1
Savannah Sparrow	67
Henslow's Sparrow	5
Song Sparrow	499
Lincoln's Sparrow	49
Swamp Sparrow	197
Eastern Towhee	93
Yellow-breasted Chat	1
Bobolink	25
Eastern Meadowlark	35
Orchard Oriole	16
Baltimore Oriole	228
Red-winged Blackbird	3757
Brown-headed Cowbird	742
Rusty Blackbird	34
Common Grackle	1080
Ovenbird	43
Worm-eating Warbler	2
Louisiana Waterthrush	3
Northern Waterthrush	105
Blue-winged Warbler	6
Black-and-white Warbler	128
Prothonotary Warbler	8
Tennessee Warbler	11
Orange-crowned Warbler	14
Nashville Warbler	99
Mourning Warbler	1
Common Yellowthroat	186
Hooded Warbler	4
American Redstart	9
Cape May Warbler	4
Northern Parula	7
Magnolia Warbler	17
Blackburnian Warbler	8
Yellow Warbler	375
Chestnut-sided Warbler	2
Black-throated Blue Warbler	5
Palm Warbler	1300
Pine Warbler	16
Yellow-rumped Warbler	915
Yellow-throated Warbler	4
Black-throated Green Warbler	87
Wilson's Warbler	2
Summer Tanager	1
Scarlet Tanager	2
Northern Cardinal	648
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	105
Indigo Bunting	33
OTHER	OTHER
Domestic Mallard	7
Duck species	1
shorebird species	1
Larus gull species	5
Gull species	14
Sharp Shinned/Cooper's Hawk	1
Diurnal raptor species	3
Downy/Hairy Woodpecker	5
woodpecker species	5
Empidonax sp (Willow/Alder)	5
flycatcher species	2
swallow species	5
kinglet species	1
Catharus species	4
thrush species	2
sparrow species	7
blackbird species	27
waterthrush species	1
warbler species	4
passerine species	36