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Rare Bird Photos
Photos of rare birds taken in DuPage County and Kane County
All photographs are copyrighted by their rightful owners.

State Rarities
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     Spotted Towhee
Wheaton, DuPage Co.
12/18/2003 to 1/2004
Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper
Fox River, South Elgin
9/27/2003 to 10/6/2003
Hermit Warbler
Morton Arboretum, Lisle
12/8/2002 to 1/2003
Rufous Hummingbird
Backyard in Elgin
9/27/2002 to 1/9/2003
Red-Necked Phalarope
FermiLab, Batavia
8/22/2001 to 8/25/2001
Glossy Ibis
FermiLab, Batavia
7/26/1999 to 7/29/1999
Say's Phoebe
FermiLab, Batavia
11/28/1998 to 11/29/1998
Swainson's Hawk
Huntley, Kane Co.
Yearly Breeder (2004)
 

 

County Rarities
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    White-Winged Scoter
Nelson Lake, Kane Co.
11/11/2004
Surf Scoter
West Branch F.P.
3/28/2004 to 4/2004
Lark Sparrow
Greene Valley F.P.
6/2003 to 8/2003 (breeding)
Sanderling
FermiLab, Batavia
9/7/2002 to 9/11/2002
   



Rare Periodic Visitors
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Common Loon Horned Grebe Least Bittern
Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Cattle Egret
Snow Goose Cackling Goose Tundra Swan
Mute Swan Redhead Red-Shouldered Hawk
Merlin Peregrine Falcon Common Moorhen
American Avocet Black-Bellied Plover Baird's Sandpiper
Buff-Breasted Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull
Thayer's Gull Iceland Gull Lesser Black-Backed Gull
Glaucous Gull Forster's Tern Northern Saw-whet Owl
Northern Shrike Bell's Vireo Sedge Wren
Yellow-Throated Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Summer Tanager
Henslow's Sparrow Yellow-Headed Blackbird  


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