Lincoln Park (Chicago, IL) Life List

Geoffrey A. Williamson

current as of
8 August 2023

310 total species
(plus 14 other unestablished, introduced birds and escaped/released species)

1. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2. Snow Goose
3. Ross's Goose
4. Greater White-fronted Goose
5. Brant
6. Cackling Goose
7. Canada Goose
8. Mute Swan
9. Trumpeter Swan
10. Tundra Swan
11. Wood Duck
12. Blue-winged Teal
13. Cinnamon Teal
14. Northern Shoveler
15. Gadwall
16. American Wigeon
17. Mallard
18. American Black Duck
19. Northern Pintail
20. Green-winged Teal
21. Canvasback
22. Redhead
23. Ring-necked Duck
24. Greater Scaup
25. Lesser Scaup
26. Harlequin Duck
27. Surf Scoter
28. White-winged Scoter
29. Black Scoter
30. Long-tailed Duck
31. Bufflehead
32. Common Goldeneye
33. Barrow's Goldeneye
34. Hooded Merganser
35. Common Merganser
36. Red-breasted Merganser
37. Ruddy Duck
38. Northern Bobwhite
39. Ring-necked Pheasant
40. Pied-billed Grebe
41. Horned Grebe
42. Red-necked Grebe
43. Eared Grebe
44. Western Grebe
45. Rock Pigeon
46. Eurasian Collared-Dove
47. Common Ground Dove
48. White-winged Dove
49. Mourning Dove
50. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
51. Black-billed Cuckoo
52. Common Nighthawk
53. Eastern Whip-poor-will
54. Chimney Swift
55. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
56. King Rail
57. Virginia Rail
58. Sora
59. Common Gallinule
60. American Coot
61. Purple Gallinule
62. Yellow Rail
63. Black Rail
64. Sandhill Crane
65. American Avocet
66. Black-bellied Plover
67. American Golden-Plover
68. Killdeer
69. Semipalmated Plover
70. Piping Plover
71. Snowy Plover
72. Upland Sandpiper
73. Whimbrel
74. Hudsonian Godwit
75. Ruddy Turnstone
76. Red Knot
77. Stilt Sandpiper
78. Sanderling
79. Dunlin
80. Purple Sandpiper
81. Baird's Sandpiper
82. Least Sandpiper
83. White-rumped Sandpiper
84. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
85. Pectoral Sandpiper
86. Semipalmated Sandpiper
87. Western Sandpiper
88. Short-billed Dowitcher
89. American Woodcock
90. Wilson's Snipe
91. Spotted Sandpiper
92. Solitary Sandpiper
93. Lesser Yellowlegs
94. Willet
95. Greater Yellowlegs
96. Parasitic Jaeger
97. Ancient Murrelet
98. Black-legged Kittiwake
99. Bonaparte's Gull
100. Black-headed Gull
101. Laughing Gull
102. Franklin's Gull
103. Short-billed Gull
104. Ring-billed Gull
105. California Gull
106. Herring Gull
107. Iceland Gull
108. Lesser Black-backed Gull
109. Glaucous Gull
110. Great Black-backed Gull
111. Caspian Tern
112. Black Tern
113. Common Tern
114. Forster's Tern
115. Red-throated Loon
116. Common Loon
117. Double-crested Cormorant
118. American Bittern
119. Least Bittern
120. Great Blue Heron
121. Great Egret
122. Snowy Egret
123. Little Blue Heron
124. Tricolored Heron
125. Cattle Egret
126. Green Heron
127. Black-crowned Night-Heron
128. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
129. Black Vulture
130. Turkey Vulture
131. Osprey
132. Northern Harrier
133. Sharp-shinned Hawk
134. Cooper's Hawk
135. Bald Eagle
136. Red-tailed Hawk
137. Rough-legged Hawk
138. Barn Owl
139. Eastern Screech-Owl
140. Great Horned Owl
141. Snowy Owl
142. Burrowing Owl
143. Barred Owl
144. Long-eared Owl
145. Short-eared Owl
146. Northern Saw-whet Owl
147. Belted Kingfisher
148. Red-headed Woodpecker
149. Red-bellied Woodpecker
150. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
151. Downy Woodpecker
152. Hairy Woodpecker
153. Northern Flicker
154. American Kestrel
155. Merlin
156. Peregrine Falcon
157. Monk Parakeet
158. Ash-throated Flycatcher
159. Great Crested Flycatcher
160. Western Kingbird
161. Eastern Kingbird
162. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
163. Olive-sided Flycatcher
164. Eastern Wood-Pewee
165. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
166. Acadian Flycatcher
167. Alder Flycatcher
168. Willow Flycatcher
169. Least Flycatcher
170. Eastern Phoebe
171. White-eyed Vireo
172. Bell's Vireo
173. Yellow-throated Vireo
174. Blue-headed Vireo
175. Philadelphia Vireo
176. Warbling Vireo
177. Red-eyed Vireo
178. Loggerhead Shrike
179. Northern Shrike
180. Blue Jay
181. American Crow
182. Fish Crow
183. Black-capped Chickadee
184. Tufted Titmouse
185. Horned Lark
186. Bank Swallow
187. Tree Swallow
188. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
189. Purple Martin
190. Barn Swallow
191. Cliff Swallow
192. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
193. Golden-crowned Kinglet
194. Cedar Waxwing
195. Red-breasted Nuthatch
196. White-breasted Nuthatch
197. Brown Creeper
198. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
199. Bewick's Wren
200. Carolina Wren
201. House Wren
202. Winter Wren
203. Sedge Wren
204. Marsh Wren
205. Gray Catbird
206. Curve-billed Thrasher
207. Brown Thrasher
208. Sage Thrasher
209. Northern Mockingbird
210. European Starling
211. Eastern Bluebird
212. Townsend's Solitaire
213. Veery
214. Gray-cheeked Thrush
215. Swainson's Thrush
216. Hermit Thrush
217. Wood Thrush
218. American Robin
219. Varied Thrush
220. House Sparrow
221. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
222. American Pipit
223. Evening Grosbeak
224. House Finch
225. Purple Finch
226. Common Redpoll
227. White-winged Crossbill
228. Pine Siskin
229. American Goldfinch
230. Lapland Longspur
231. Snow Bunting
232. Cassin's Sparrow
233. Grasshopper Sparrow
234. Lark Sparrow
235. Lark Bunting
236. Chipping Sparrow
237. Clay-colored Sparrow
238. Field Sparrow
239. Brewer's Sparrow
240. Fox Sparrow
241. American Tree Sparrow
242. Dark-eyed Junco
243. White-crowned Sparrow
244. Harris's Sparrow
245. White-throated Sparrow
246. Vesper Sparrow
247. LeConte's Sparrow
248. Nelson's Sparrow
249. Henslow's Sparrow
250. Savannah Sparrow
251. Song Sparrow
252. Lincoln's Sparrow
253. Swamp Sparrow
254. Spotted Towhee
255. Eastern Towhee
256. Yellow-breasted Chat
257. Yellow-headed Blackbird
258. Bobolink
259. Eastern Meadowlark
260. Western Meadowlark
261. Orchard Oriole
262. Baltimore Oriole
263. Red-winged Blackbird
264. Brown-headed Cowbird
265. Rusty Blackbird
266. Common Grackle
267. Ovenbird
268. Worm-eating Warbler
269. Louisiana Waterthrush
270. Northern Waterthrush
271. Golden-winged Warbler
272. Blue-winged Warbler
273. Black-and-white Warbler
274. Prothonotary Warbler
275. Tennessee Warbler
276. Orange-crowned Warbler
277. Nashville Warbler
278. Connecticut Warbler
279. Mourning Warbler
280. Kentucky Warbler
281. Common Yellowthroat
282. Hooded Warbler
283. American Redstart
284. Kirtland's Warbler
285. Cape May Warbler
286. Cerulean Warbler
287. Northern Parula
288. Magnolia Warbler
289. Bay-breasted Warbler
290. Blackburnian Warbler
291. Yellow Warbler
292. Chestnut-sided Warbler
293. Blackpoll Warbler
294. Black-throated Blue Warbler
295. Palm Warbler
296. Pine Warbler
297. Yellow-rumped Warbler
298. Yellow-throated Warbler
290. Prairie Warbler
300. Townsend's Warbler
301. Black-throated Green Warbler
302. Canada Warbler
303. Wilson's Warbler
304. Summer Tanager
305. Scarlet Tanager
306. Northern Cardinal
307. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
308. Blue Grosbeak
309. Indigo Bunting
310. Dickcissel

Unestablished, introduced birds and escaped/released species

1. Graylag Goose
2. Swan Goose
3. Muscovy Duck
4. Red Junglefowl
5. African Collared-Dove
6. Cockatiel
7. Budgerigar
8. Rosy-faced Lovebird
9. Eurasian Jay
10. Northern Red Bishop
11. Zebra Finch
12. Orange-cheeked Waxbill
13. European Goldfinch
14. European Greenfinch

This page was last updated on 17 September 2022