Birds Sighted in Chicago's Jackson Park in Recent Years 



(Wooded Island is located in Jackson Park) 



Red-throated Loon' 



Common Loon 



Pied-billed Grebe 



Homed Grebe 



Eared Grebe 



Double-crested Cormorant 



American Bittern 



Least Bittern 



Great Blue Heron 



Great Egret 



Tricolored Heron 



Cattle Egret 



Green-backed Heron 



Black-crowned Night Heron 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron 



Tundra Swan* 



Mute Swan 



Snow Goose 



Canada Goose 



Wood Duck 



Green-winged Teal 



American Black Duck 



Mallard 



Northern Pintail 



Blue-winged Teal 



Northern Shoveler 



Gadwall 



American Wigeon 



Canvasback 



Redhead 



Ring-necked Duck 

 Greater Scaup 

 Lesser Scaup 

 Harlequin Duck 

 Oldsquaw 

 Black Scoter* 

 Surf Scoter* 

 White-winged Scoter* 

 Common Goldeneye 

 Bufflehead 

 Hooded Merganser 

 Common Merganser 

 Red-breasted Merganser 

 Ruddy Duck 

 Turkey Vulture 

 Osprey 

 Bald Eagle 

 Northern Harrier 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk 

 Cooper's Hawk 

 Northern Goshawk 

 Red-shouldered Hawk 

 Broad-winged Hawk 

 Red-tailed Hawk 

 Rough-legged Hawk 

 American Kestrel 

 Merlin 



Peregrine Falcon 

 Ring-necked Pheasant 

 Black Rail 



Virginia Rail 



Sora 



Common Moorhen 



American Coot 



Sandhill Crane 



Black-bellied Plover 



Lesser Golden Plover 



Semipalmated Plover* 



Piping Plover* 



Killdeer 



American Avocet* 



Greater Yellowlegs 



Lesser Yellowlegs 



Solitary Sandpiper 



Willet* 



Spotted Sandpiper 



Upland Sandpiper 



Whimbrel* 



Marbled Godwit* 



Ruddy Turnstone ' 



Red Knot* 



Sanderling* 



Semipalmated Sandpiper" 



Western Sandpiper' 



Least Sandpiper 



White-rumped Sandpiper* 



Baird's Sandpiper' 



Pectoral Sandpiper 



Dunlin 



Stilt Sandpiper' 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper* 

 Short-billed Dowitcher* 

 Common Snipe 

 American Woodcock 

 Laughing Gull* 

 Franklin's Gull 

 Common Black-headed Gul 

 Bonaparte's Gull* 

 California Gull* 

 Herring Gull 

 Thayer's Gull* 

 Iceland Gull' 

 Lesser Black-backed Gull 

 Glaucous Gull' 

 Black-legged Kittiwake 

 Caspian Tern 

 Common Tern 

 Forster's Tern 

 Black Tern 

 Rock Dove 

 Mourning Dove 

 Monk Parakeet 

 Black-billed Cuckoo 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 

 Eastern Screech Owl 

 Great Horned Owl 

 Snowy Owl * 

 Long-eared Owl 

 Short-eared Owl 

 Northern Saw-whet Owl 



View of Wooded Island and lagoon during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The]apanese buildings (the island's on!} structures), at the north 

 end, have been replaced try a garden . 



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