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CHICAGOLAND IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS NAMED
Audubon releases list of 48 important sites in Illinois

ILLINOIS BEACH S.P.

Posted: October 13, 2004


Illinois Important Bird Areas designated as of October 2004

 

SITE

CRITERIA

1

Illinois Beach State Park

Raptors

2

Kane/McHenry Swainson's Hawk Habitat

Swainson's Hawk

3

Naval Station Great Lakes

Common Tern

4

Rollins Savanna

Yellow-headed Blackbird

5

Lake-McHenry wetlands complex

Pied-billed Grebe, Least Bittern, Sandhill Crane, Common Moorhen, Forster's Tern, Willow Flycatcher, Yellow-headed Blackbird

6

Goose Lake Prairie State Park

American Bittern, King Rail, Wilson's Snipe, Sedge Wren, Henslow's Sparrow

7

Lake Calumet Area

Black-crowned Night-heron, Common Moorhen, Willow Flycatcher

8

Pratt's Wayne Woods

Sandhill Crane, Yellow-headed Blackbird

9

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Upland Sandpiper, Willow Flycatcher, Sedge Wren, Loggerhead Shrike, Bell's Vireo, Grasshopper Sparrow, Bobolink

10

Bartel Grassland

Bobolink

11

Upper Mississippi NWR  

Waterfowl, Wading Birds, Shorebirds, Raptors, Sandhill Crane, Red-headed Woodpecker, Brown Creeper

12

Lost Mound Unit, Savanna District of

the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge

Waterfowl, Raptors, Wading Birds, Upland Sandpiper, Red-headed Woodpecker, Brown Creeper, Loggerhead Shrike, Grasshopper Sparrow

13

Mississippi Palisades State Park 

Raptors, Cerulean Warbler

14

Donnelly and Lake Depue State Fish and Wildlife Areas

Wading Birds

15

Marshall State Fish and Wildlife Area

Waterfowl

16

Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge

Shorebirds, Waterfowl, Wading Birds

17

Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area

Shorebirds

18

Rice Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area

Shorebirds

19

Pekin Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area

Wading Birds

20

Sanganois State Fish and Wildlife Area

Waterfowl, Wading Birds

21

Anderson Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area

Waterfowl

22

Calhoun Division of the Two Rivers National Wildlife Refuge incl. Mississippi SFWA

Waterfowl, Wading Birds, Brown Creeper, Prothonotary Warbler

23

Red's Landing State Fish and Wildlife Area and Batchtown division of Two Rivers NFWR

Waterfowl, Wading Birds, Prothonotary Warbler

24

Union County State Conservation Area

Waterfowl

25

Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge

Waterfowl, Barn Owl, Henslow's Sparrow, Orchard Oriole

26

Horseshoe Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area

Waterfowl, Brown Creeper

27

Mark Twain NWR Long Island Division

Wading Birds, Shorebirds, Waterfowl

28

Hennepin and Hopper Lake

Waterfowl, Pied-billed Grebe

29

Meredosia State Fish and Wildlife Area

Waterfowl

30

Grassy Slough TNC Natural Area

Short-eared Owl (winter), Barn Owl

31

Oakwood Bottoms, Shawnee National Forest

Waterfowl, Shorebirds, Yellow-crowned Night-heron

32

Crab Orchard NWR

Waterfowl, Wading Birds

33

Little Black Slough Nature Preserve

Wading Birds, Yellow-crowned Night-heron, Brown Creeper, Prairie Warbler

34

Pyramid State Park

Waterfowl, Willow Flycatcher, Bell’s Vireo, Grasshopper Sparrow, Dickcissel, Loggerhead Shrike, Henslow’s Sparrow, Northern Harrier, Short-eared Owl (winter)

35

Double T Fish and Wildlife Area

Upland Sandpiper

36

Prairie Ridge State Natural Area - Jasper unit and Marion Unit

Shorebirds, Greater Prairie-chicken, American Bittern, King Rail, Upland Sandpiper, Northern Harrier, Short-eared Owl, Sedge Wren, Loggerhead Shrike, Henslow's Sparrow, Dickcissel

37

Castle Rock State Park & Lowden-Miller SF

Cerulean Warbler

38

Iroquois County State Conservation Area

Red-headed Woodpecker, Sedge Wren

39

Sand Prairie Scrub Oak

Red-headed Woodpecker

40

Kaskaskia River Corridor

Brown Creeper, Cerulean Warbler

41

LaRue Springs-Pine Hills Ecological Station, Shawnee National Forest

Kentucky Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler

42

Trail of Tears State Forest

Kentucky Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler

43

Pomona Nongame Bird Management Area

Cerulean Warbler, Kentucky Warbler

44

Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area

Yellow-breasted Chat, Dickcissel

45

Douglas - Goose Lake & Woodford CCA

Waterfowl

46

Spoon River - Emiquon NWR

Waterfowl

47

Trelease Woods

Research Site

48

Des Plaines State Conservation Area 

Orchard Oriole

Thanks to everyone who has already nominated a site.  It's not too late to nominate a site!  The second round of Illinois IBA nominations in now being sought.  Visit http://www.habitatproject.org/ for a list of Most Wanted sites, a map of all 48 Illinois IBA's, and for additional information about Important Bird Areas.

 


For more information, please visit:
CHICAGO WILDERNESS HABITAT PROJECT
http://www.habitatproject.org/

 

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