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Illinois Bird Species List
Individual species profiles:
- American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
- American black duck (Anas rubipres)
- American wigeon (Anas americana)
- Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
- Bachman's sparrow (Aimophila aestivalis)
- Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
- Bewick's wren (Thyromanes bewickii)
- Black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
- Black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis)
- Black tern (Chlidonias niger)
- Black-throated sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata)
- Blue-winged teal (Anas discors)
- Boreal owl (Aegolius funereus)
- Brown creeper (Certhia americana)
- Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)
- Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
- Cinnamon teal (Anas cyanoptera)
- Common barn-owl (Tyto alba)
- Common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
- Common tern (Sterna hirundo)
- Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
- Double-crested comorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
- Eurasian wigeon (Anas penelope)
- Forster's tern (Sterna forsteri)
- Gadwall (Anas strepera)
- Golden eagle (Aquila chysaetos)
- Grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)
- Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
- Great egret (Casmerodius albus)
- Greater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)
- Greater scaup (Aythya marila)
- Greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)
- Green-winged teal (Anas crecca)
- Henslow's sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii)
- King rail (Rallus elegans)
- Least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis)
- Least tern (Sterna antillarum)
- LeConte's sparrow (Ammodramus leconteii)
- Lesser scaup (Aythya affinis)
- Little blue heron (Egretta caerulea)
- Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
- Long-eared owl (Asio otus)
- Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
- Mississippi kite (Ictinia mississippiensis)
- Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
- Northern harrier (Circus cyaneus)
- Northern pintail (Anas acuta)
- Northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus)
- Northern shoveler (Anas clypeata)
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- Pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
- Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
- Redhead (Aythya americana)
- Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus)
- Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
- Ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris)
- Roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja)
- Ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)
- Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
- Sandhill crane (Grus canadensis)
- Sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus)
- Sharp-tailed sparrow (Ammodramus caudacutus)
- Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)
- Snowy egret (Egretta thula)
- Spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia)
- Sprague's pipit (Anthus spragueii)
- Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni)
- Swainson's warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii)
- Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
- Upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
- Veery (Catharus fuscescens)
- Water pipit (Anthus spinoletta)
- Western grebe (Aechmophorus accidentalis)
- Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
- Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
- Yellow-crowned night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
- Yellow-headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus)
- Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
All photographs by Scott Robinson, INHS, unless otherwise noted.
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