Lincoln Park (Chicago, IL) Life List

Geoffrey A. Williamson

current as of
31 August 2025

311 total species
(plus 13 other unestablished, introduced birds and escaped/released species)

Note: My Lincoln Park "patch list" in eBird shows a 310 species total. The difference is because I am including Northern Bobwhite here from sightings at Montrose Point; these were considered escapees in eBird.

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

This page was last updated on 31 August 2025