Bird Checklist
Birds of the Chicago region
Birds of concern in bold type
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Grassland, shrubland,
and perimeter habitats
Wetland, marsh, swamp
and waterside habitats
Woodland and
savanna habitats
Migrants
__ American Goldfinch
__ American Kestrel
__ Barn Owl
__ Bell’s Vireo
__ Black-billed Cuckoo
__ Blue-winged Warbler
__ Bobolink
__ Brown Thrasher
__ Brown-headed CowbIrd
__ Chestnut-sided Warbler
__ Common Nighthawk
__ Common Yellowthroat
__ Dickcissel
__ Eastern Kingbird
__ Field Sparrow
__ Grasshopper Sparrow
__ Gray Catbird
__ Henslow’s Sparrow
__ Indigo Bunting
__ Loggerhead Shrike
__ Northern Bobwhite
__ Northern Harrier
__ Orchard Oriole
__ Prairie Warbler
__ Savannah Sparrow
__ Sedge Wren
__ Song Sparrow
__ Swainson’s Hawk
__ Upland Sandpiper
__ Vesper Sparrow
__ White-eyed Vireo
__ Yellow-breasted Chat
__ Acadian Flycatcher
__ American Redstart
__ American Woodcock
__ Black-and-white Warbler
__ Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
__ Broad-winged Hawk
__ Carolina Wren
__ Cedar Waxwing
__ Cerulean Warbler
__ Chimney Swift
__ Chipping Sparrow
__ Cooper’s Hawk
__ Downy Woodpecker
__ Eastern Wood Peewee
__ Eastern Towhee
__ Eastern Whip-poor-will
__ Great-crested Flycatcher
__ Hairy Woodpecker
__ Hooded Warbler
__ Kentucky Warbler
__ Least Flycatcher
__ Louisiana Waterthrush
__ Northern Flicker
__ Ovenbird
__ Prothonotary Warbler
__ Red-bellied Woodpecker
__ Red-eyed Vireo
__ Red-headed Woodpecker
__ Red-shouldered Hawk
__ Red-tailed Hawk
__ Rose-breasted Grosbeak
__ Scarlet Tanager
__ Tufted Titmouse
__ Veery
__Warbling Vireo
__ White-breasted Nuthatch
__ Wood Thrush
__ Yellow-billed Cuckoo
__ Yellow-throated Vireo
__ American Bittern
__ American Coot
__ Baltimore Oriole
__ King Rail
__ Least Bittern
__ Little Blue Heron
__ Marsh Wren
__ Northern Rough-winged Swallow
__ Osprey
__ Peregrine Falcon
__ Pied-bill Grebe
__ Piping Plover
__ Red-winged Blackbird
__ Sora
__ Spotted Sandpiper
__ Swamp Sparrow
__ Tree Swallow
__ VIrginia Rail
__ Wilson’s Phalarope
__ Wilson’s Snipe
__ Wood duck
__ Yellow Warbler
__ Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
__ Yellow-headed Blackbird
__ American Golden-Plover
__ Bay-breasted Warbler
__ Black-and-white Warbler
__ Black-throated Green Warbler
__ Bonaparte’s Gull
__ Buff-breasted Sandpiper
__ Canada Warbler
__ Cape May Warbler
__ Chimney Swift
__ Common Goldeneye
__ Common Loon
__ Common Nighthawk
__ Connecticut Warbler
__ Golden-winged Warbler
__ Greater Scaup
__ Greater Yellowlegs
__ Horned Grebe
__ LeConte’s Sparrow
__ Lesser Scaup
__ Long-eared Owl
__ Long-tailed Duck
__ Mourning Warbler
__ Nashville Warbler
__ Nelson’s Sparrow
__ Northern Harrier
__ Olive-sided Flycatcher
__ Philadelphia Vireo
__ Purple Finch
__ Rough-legged Hawk
__ Rusty Blackbird
__ Short-billed Dowitcher
__ Short-eared Owl
__ Smith’s Longspur
__ Solitary Sandpiper
__ Veery
__ Yellow Rail
