This list is designed to help you determine what birds are particularly wanted on the hotline.  If you see these birds (or any that aren't even on the DuPage Checklist), please report them.  In general, the formula for what birds to include on this list was based on the DuPage Checklist.  Please click here to read the formula. 

Birds marked with an "*" should be reported immediately.  Members of the DuPage Birding Club can contact Eric Secker at his home phone number regarding any birds marked with a "*".  Non-members should send an e-mail to Eric Secker's personal e-mail address as soon as possible.  You can also call the hotline from the nearest phone while in the field and leave a quick message, but e-mail usually reaches the hotline compiler sooner.

Common Loon 
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe*
Eared Grebe*

American White Pelican*
Neotropic Cormorant*
Anhinga*

American Bittern
Least Bittern
Snowy Egret*
Little Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron*

Wood Stork*

Glossy Ibis*
White-faced Ibis*

Tundra Swan
Mute Swan - Please be sure that it is a wild bird and not a captive
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Garganey*
Cinnamon Teal*
Greater Scaup
Eurasian Wigeon*
Surf Scoter*
Black Scoter*
White-winged Scoter*
Long-tailed Duck*

Mississippi Kite*
Bald Eagle
Northern Goshawk*
Red-shouldered Hawk
Golden Eagle*
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon

Black Rail*
Yellow Rail*
King Rail*
Common Moorhen

Piping Plover*
American Avocet*
Willet*
Upland Sandpiper
Hudsonian Godwit*
Marbled Godwit*
Ruddy Turnstone*
Red Knot*
Sanderling*
Western Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff*
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope*
Red Phalarope*

Franklin's Gull*
Thayer's Gull
Iceland Gull*
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull*
Glaucous Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Tern*
Forster's Tern
Black Tern

Eurasian Collared Dove - Please beware of escapes and Turtle Doves

Snowy Owl*
Barred Owl
Short-eared Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl

Whip-poor-will

Pileated Woodpecker*

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Acadian Flycatcher
Alder Flycatcher
Western Kingbird*
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher*
Vermilion Flycatcher*
Say's Phoebe*

Cliff Swallow

Tufted Titmouse - Except at Maple Grove, Lyman Woods, and in central and northern Kane County

Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren*
Sedge Wren

Townsend's Solitaire*

Northern Mockingbird

American Pipit

Bohemian Waxwing*

Northern Shrike
Loggerhead Shrike

White-eyed Vireo
Bell's Vireo

Black-throated Blue Warbler
Hermit Warbler*
Yellow-throated Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler*
Prairie Warbler*
Cerulean Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler*
Louisiana Waterthrush
Kentucky Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat

Western Tanager*
Summer Tanager*
Blue Grosbeak*
Brewer's Sparrow*
Clay-colored Sparrow
Lark Sparrow*
Henslow's Sparrow
Le Conte's Sparrow*
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow*
Harris' Sparrow*
Lapland Longspur - in DuPage County only
Snow Bunting - in DuPage County only

Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird

Pine Grosbeak*
Red Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Common Redpoll - unless it's an invasion year
Evening Grosbeak