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Birding Checklists
Offsite links to checklists for DuPage County and other areas.

DuPage Bird Checklists

DuPage Checklist (DBC): The DuPage Bird Checklist by Denis Kania with ranking of rarity of each species during seven seasons of the year; posted with permission on Illinois and Chicago Birding by Urs Geiser. Printable, but no check boxes.

Argonne Checklist: A list of over 175 birds seen at Argonne National Laboratory compiled by Urs Geiser and others.  Includes scientific names of each species and recent birds seen; posted on Illinois and Chicago Birding by Urs Geiser.



NE Illinois Checklists

Chicago Area Checklist (COS): A checklist of Chicago area birds including Kane, McHenry, Lake, DuPage, Will, and Cook counties.  The checklist contains three columns for checking off birds and ranking of overall rarity.  Compact, printable design.

Cook County Checklist: A checklist of about 290 species of birds that have been reported in Cook County Preserves and surrounding areas.  The checklist contains spaces for checking off birds and ranking of overall rarity and time of year seen.



Other Bird Checklists

Illinois Bird Checklist (IOS): A detailed checklist for Illinois with all species recorded in Illinois and breeding status. Online only.

llinois Birding Checklist: A checklist for Illinois based off of information from the American Ornithologists' Union.  The checklist contains the order, family name, common name, and scientific name for each species; from Thayer Birding Software.

USGS Illinois Checklists: Checklists for other areas in Illinois, mainly wildlife refuges is west-central and southern IL.

Birds of Illinois Checklist: Checklist with all species recorded in Illinois and threatened/endangered status. Online only.

ABA, AOU, and Sibley-Monroe Checklists: USA and World Checklists arrange in Latin alphabetical order, English alphabetical order, and Taxonomic order; posted on Birdingonthe.Net by Jack Siler

USGS State Checklists: A database of local checklists for the 50 states, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
A special thanks goes out to Denis Kania for all his work on the DuPage checklist as well as to Urs Geiser who posted it on the web and added the scientific names for each species as well as additional birds seen after the printing of the checklist.

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