Jackson Park 2003 bird species count
This page brought to you by Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference and HPKCC's website, www.hydepark.org and by the Jackson Park Advisory Council. Join the Conference! Join JPAC!
|
Jackson Park 2003 bird species countThis page brought to you by Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference and HPKCC's website, www.hydepark.org and by the Jackson Park Advisory Council. Join the Conference! Join JPAC! |
Birding
home. Migratory Bird Treaty
Guidelines. What birds should you look
for? a 2002 baseline.
Jackson Park/JPAC home. Jackson
Park habitat and birding history and future
This is an informal survey of bird sightings reported in Jackson Park during the calendar year 2003. It is not scientific, but is merely a compilation of reported sightings from Doug Anderson's weekly bird walks, IBET (Illinois Birders Exchanging Thoughts) listserve submissions (on April 15, replaced with the Yahoo group ILBirds), and personal reports from various frequent bird watchers. The goal is to see how many species are reported in one year.
If you are a bird watcher and would like to contribute to this list, please send your sightings, date, and location to George Rumsey; if you would like to be credited as a contributor, let us know (if you'd prefer to be listed anonymously, that's fine too).
The area covered is roughly from 53rd Street/The Point to LaRabida Harbor/63rd Street Beach, including Wooded Island and Bobolink Meadow.
Observations |
Birds |
| On January 1, 2003, two dozen shivering souls gathered at the Darrow Bridge at 8:00 am to start the New Year in style with Doug Anderson. With temperatures in the high 20s and winds gusting to 30 mph, the prediction was for "64 crows and 1 cardinal." | 1.
American crow |
| One week later, I surveyed the island again (January 7) with long-time Bloomington, IN, birder Tom Medynski. | 10.
Hermit thrush 11. Northern junco |
| February 1, 2003, a wet, foggy morning, but great for ducks (from 63rd St. Beach to LaRabida Harbor). | 12. Common
merganser |
| February 8, sunny, but bitterly cold and windy. Hawk on Wooded Island and ducks at LaRabida. | 20. Red-tailed
hawk 21. Lesser scaup |
Ducks,
geese, and gulls at LaRabida Harbor on Sunday morning, Feb. 16, 2003 |
 |
From IBET listing by prclyne@hotmail.com, 2/22/03 |
20. Surf
scoter |
| From IBET (prclyne) and weekend observations, 3/10/03 | 26. Brown
creeper 27. Black-backed gull 28. Harlequin duck |
| Observations, 3/16/03 | 29. European
starling 30. Blue-winged teal 31. Song sparrow 32. Fox sparrow |
| From IBET (prclyne) and observations, 3/23, 27/03 | 33. Loggerhead
shrike 34. Northern shoveler 35. Golden-crowned kinglet 36. Belted kingfisher 37. Eastern phoebe 38. House sparrow 39. Wood duck 40. Osprey |
| From IBET (katsdad), 3/31/03 | 41. Pied-billed
grebe |
| From IBET (kimainis and rdoeker), 4/3/03 | 46.
Yellow-bellied sapsucker |
| Observations and IBET (savebirds), 4/11/03 | 51.
Eastern pewee |
| IBET (JohnArturoV), 4/13/03 | 61.
Caspian tern |
| IBET (Q4birds), 4/14/03 | 65.
Pine warbler |
| katsdad (Richard M) and observations, 4/20 | 70.
Prairie warbler 71. Great blue heron 72. Green heron 73. Palm warbler 74. Northern waterthrush 75. Louisiana waterthrush |
| Week of 4/25 (IBET replaced with Yahoo group ILBirds); amazing sightings from Doug Anderson's group | 76.
Henslow sparrow 77. Great egret 78. Long-eared owl |
| 4/27 observations, SueFriscia, katsdad, scott_carpenter (on ILBirds) | 79.
Black-and-white warbler |
| 4/28, SueFriscia (ILBirds) | 88.
Black-throated green warbler |
| 5/4, PRClyne and Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 92.
White-eyed vireo |
| 5/6-7, w.serafin, PRClyne, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 101.
Willet 102. Forster's tern 103. Blackburnian warbler 104. Baltimore oriole 105. Blue-headed vireo 106. Yellow-throated vireo 107. Wood thrush 108. Orchard oriole 109. Red-bellied woodpecker 110. Bobolink 111. Wilson's warbler 112. Harris' sparrow |
| 5/10-11,
Brianherriott, q4bird, PRClyne, (ILBirds) Lots of activity for the Spring Bird Count |
113.
Mourning warbler |
| 5/19, balto, (ILBirds) | 134.
Chestnut-sided warbler |
| 5/28, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) |
143. Peregrine falcon |
| 6/6, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 147. Least bittern |
| 8/18, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 148. Purple martins |
| 8/22, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 149.
Lesser yellowleg 150. Whimbrel 151. Pectoral sandpiper |
| 8/22, cogresha (ILBirds) | 152.
Baird's sandpiper 153. Semipalmated plover |
| 8/28, PRClyne (ILBirds) | 154. Budgerigar (escapee?) |
| 9/2, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 155.
Franklin gull 156. Cape May warbler |
| 9/4, Dawg (ILBirds) | 157. Common nighthawk |
| 9/4, pdurkin (ILBirds) | 158.
Solitary sandpiper 159. Spotted sandpiper 160. Hairy woodpecker |
| 9/4, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 161.
Herring gull 162. Eastern kingbird 163. Marsh wren |
| 9/15, Q4Birds (ILBirds) | 164.
Yellow-billed cuckoo 165. Black-billed cuckoo |
| 9/17, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 166. Sedge wren |
| 9/20, Q4Birds(ILBirds) | 167. Empidomax flycatcher |
| 9/23, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 168. Nelson sharp-tailed sparrow |
| 10/5, rumsey | 169. Cooper's hawk |
| 10/13-14, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 170.
American woodcock 171. House finch 172. Lesser black-backed gull |
| 11/6, Scott_Carpenter (ILBirds) | 173.
Common loon 174. Horned grebe 175. Field sparrow 176. Black scoter 177. American tree sparrow |
| 11/11, prclyne (ILBirds) | 178. Dunlin |
| 12/20, Scott-Carpenter (ILBirds) | 179.
Greater scaup 180. Richardson's goose |