IORC Web Resources and Review Files

These web pages make electronically available a variety of information related to the work of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee (IORC). The section regarding documentation of bird records represents a portion of the IORC archives. The archival material includes items sent to IORC (mostly written documentation and physical evidence in the form of photographs, videos, and sound recordings, but also a few other items) plus also the evaluatory votes and comments of IORC members. The web pages from 2011 to the present are essentially complete with respect to the documentary materials. IORC's practice now is to provide here all votes and comments going forward; however, these are not now available in all cases.

Each year's listing of records includes for all records the serial number, species or form, county, first and last date of observation, and status of the record. Where this or other information on these web pages differs from that in published IORC reports, the latter represent the official record.

IORC is making all this material web-accessible, and hence readily available, to inform better the birding public about IORC's work and to facilitate access to at least part of its archives. IORC hopes that this material's availability will encourage the submission of documentation of rare and unusual birds in Illinois, will help to improve the understanding of the documentation and review process, and will by example help to improve the quality of submitted documentary materials.

Question, suggestions, and corrections may be directed via email to the IORC Secretary, Geoff Williamson, at iorcommittee <at> gmail <dot> com.

Resources

Documentation and other information regarding bird records
(organized by year)
1961
1963
1966
1967
1968
1952
1953
1954
1957
1960
1941
1942
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1950
1931
1932
1934
1937
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1921
1925
1928
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1912
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1918
1920
1901
1902
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1907
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1910
1892
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1895
1896
1899
1900
1881
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1885
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1871
1872
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1877
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1861
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1864
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1866
1867
1868
1869
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
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1859
1860

IORC Membership

  • Geoff Williamson (Secretary, 2024)
  • Nathan Goldberg (1st term member, 2024 - 2026)
  • Steve Huggins (1st term member, 2023 - 2025)
  • Davida Kalina (2nd term member, 2022 - 2024, Vice-Secretary 2024)
  • Terry Walsh (2nd term member, 2024 - 2026)
  • Kyle Wiktor (1st term member, 2022 - 2024)
  • Dan Williams (1st term member, 2023 - 2025)
  • Bob Fisher (alternate)
  • Bob Hughes (alternate)
  • Walter Marcisz (alternate)
  • Adam Sell (alternate)
  • Doug Stotz (alternate)
  • Paul Sweet (alternate)
  • Mike Ward (alternate)

Minutes of IORC meetings

Secretary's Reports

Chronology of Changes to the Official Illinois State List of Birds
(since 1 December 2012)

Chronology of Changes to the Review
(since 1 December 2012)

 

 

 

This page was last updated on 26 July 2024