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Birds of Kankakee Sands
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 Bobolink  Horned Lark  Red-winged Blackbird  Wood Duck  Killdeer  Great Blue Heron  Sandhill Crane  Red-headed Woodpecker  Grasshopper Sparrow |
Italics/Bold indicates rare visitors.
Common Grassland Birds
American Kestrel
Bobolink
Brown-headed Cowbird
Dickcissel
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Kingbird
Field Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Henslow's Sparrow
Horned Lark
Lark Sparrow
Mourning Dove
Northern Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Savannah Sparrow
Upland Sandpiper
Vesper Sparrow
Less Common Grassland Birds
American Pipit
Barn Swallow
Lark Bunting
Lincoln's Sparrow
Short-eared Owl
Smith's Longspur
Western Kingbird
Western Meadowlark
Wetland/Grassland Birds
American Woodcock
Common Yellowthroat
LeConte's Sparrow
Marsh Wren
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Sedge Wren
Swamp Sparrow
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Wilson's Snipe
Shrubland Birds
Alder Flycatcher
American Goldfinch
American Tree Sparrow
Bell's Vireo
Blue Grosbeak
Brown Thrasher
Eastern Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
House Wren
Indigo Bunting
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Cardinal
Orchard Oriole
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Song Sparrow
Tree Swallow
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Willow Flycatcher
Ducks
Blue-winged Teal
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Common Tern
Gadwall
Greater White-fronted Goose
Green-winged Teal
Hooded Merganser
Horned Grebe
Lesser Scaup
Mallard
Mute Swan
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Ring-necked Duck
Wood Duck
Migrating Shorebirds
American Avocet
American Golden-Plover
Baird's Sandpiper
Black-bellied Plover
Dunlin
Greater Yellowlegs
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Dowitcher
Marbled Godwit
Pectoral Sandpiper
Piping Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Willet
Wilson's Phalarope
Marsh Birds
American Coot
American Bittern
Black Rail
Black-crn Night-Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Green Heron
King Rail
Least Bittern
Pied-billed Grebe
Sandhill Crane
Snowy Egret
Sora
Tricolored Heron
Virginia Rail
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Yellow Rail
Raptors
Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Red-shouldered Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Northern Harrier
Osprey
Cooper's Hawk
Migrating Terns and Gulls
Black Tern
Forster's Tern
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Open Woodland Birds
American Crow
American Robin
Black-billed Cuckoo
Blue Jay
Chipping Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Northern Flicker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Warbling Vireo
Wild Turkey
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Migrating Woodland Birds
Black-capped Chickadee
Black-throated Green Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Cedar Waxwing
Common Grackle
Common Nighthawk
Hermit Thrush
Magnolia Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Ovenbird
Pine Siskin
Red-eyed Vireo
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Tennessee Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Winter Wren
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Other Visiting Birds
Baltimore Oriole
Bank Swallow
Barn Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Chimney Swift
House Finch
House Sparrow
Lapland Longspur
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Palm Warbler
Rock Dove
Rusty Blackbird
Snow Bunting
Tree Swallow
Turkey Vulture
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Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Jed Hertz (American Kestral); Photo © Rich Phalin (Bobolink); Photo © Paul Thomas (Horned Lark & Red-winged Blackbird); Photo © John Cassady (Wood Duck & Killdeer); Photo © Paul Thomas (Piping Plover); Photo © Tom Gross (Great Blue Heron & Sandhill Crane); Photo © John Cassady (Red-headed woodpecker); Photo © Paul Thomas (Grasshopper Sparrow).
