ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 



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Spring Census and Migration Record 



Carthage, Illinois. 

 Winter of 1916-17 to March 27, 1917. 

 First Seen AOU 



AOU 



132 Mallard Duck March 8 



171a Amer. White-fronted Goose_Mar. 12 



172 Canada Goose Feb. 22 



273 Killdeer March 21 



289 Bobwhite Feb. 26 



316 Mourning Dove March 18 



331 Marsh Hawk March 17 



334 American Goshawk March 24 



337 Red-tailed Hawk Feb. 3 



343 Broad-winged Hawk March 24 



347a Amer. Rough-legged Hawk Feb. 3 



360 Sparrow Hawk Winter Res. 



366 Long-eared Owl Winter Res. 



367 Short-eared Owl Winter Res. 



373 Screech Owl Winter Res. 



375 Great-horned Owl Winter Res. 



376 Snowy Owl Winter Res. 



393 Hairy Woodpecker Winter Res. 



394 Downy Woodpecker Winter Res. 



409 Red-bellied Woodpecker. Winter Res. 



412 Northern Flicker Feb. 26 



456 Phcebe March 20 



474b Prairie Horned Lark Feb. 3 



477 Blue Jay Winter Res. 



488 Crow Winter Res. 



495 Cowbird March 15 



First Seen 



498 Red-winged Blackbird March 14 



501 Meadowlark March 9 



501.1 Western Meadowlark March 24 



509 Rusty Blackbird March 10 



511b Bronzed Grackle Feb. 12 



517 Purple Finch Feb. 22 



528 Redpoll Abundant Winter Res. 



529 American Goldfinch Winter Res. 



559 Tree Sparrow Winter Res. 



560 Chipping Sparrow March 17 



563 Field Sparrow March 21 



567 Slate Colored Junco Winter Res. 



581 Song Sparrow Feb. 15 



585 Fox Sparrow March 10 



587 Towhee March 21 



593 Cardinal Winter Res. 



617 Cedar Waxwing Feb. 12 



622c Migrant Shrike March 22 



726 Brown Creeper Winter Res. 



727 White-breasted Nuthatch Winter Res. 



728 Red-breasted Nuthatch Jan. 25 



731 Tufted Titmouse Winter Res. 



735 Chickadee Winter Res. 



759b Hermit Thrush March 10 



761 Robin First seen Feb. 14 



766 Bluebird Feb. 22 



Compiled by Luella Strauch from the records of Earl L. Lambert, Frank C. Gates 

 and students in the bird class at Carthage College. 



Charleston Winter and Spring Notes. 



An open winter with little snow has been favorable for bird life. Downy Wood- 

 peckers and Chickadees have seldom come to the suet except during the few short 

 spells of wintry weather, which makes it appear that they were finding plenty of 

 natural food. A few robins have remained over winter. A female Baltimore Oriole 

 remained till December 1, making daily visits to a feeding shelf maintained by Mrs. 

 C. L. Lee. All of our regular winter birds appeared in their usual numbers, and two 

 species, usually scarce in the region, were quite common. These are the Short-eared 

 Owl and the White-breasted Nuthatch. Raptorial birds have been unusually in evidence 

 this last winter and early spring, which may be partly accounted for by the open 

 weather, an unusual abundance of rabbits and perhaps by the high cost of shot 

 gun shells, making many gunners shoot only those creatures that yield returns in the 

 form of meat ; and the high cost of this meat has caused an unusual amount of pot- 

 hunting. 



The early spring birds arrived unusually early this season. The following is a 

 list of them with dates when they first appeared and became common. 



First 



Became 



First 



Became 





seen 



common 





seen 



common 



Robin 





Feb. 25 



Turkey Buzzard 



Mar. 22 





Bluebird 



Feb. 17 



Feb. 26 



Red-winged Blkbrd 



Mar. 16 





Bronzed Grackle 



Feb. 26 



Mar. 15 



Cedar Waxwing 



Mar. 17 





Killdeer 



Feb. 21 





Bewick's Wren 



Mar. 25 



Mar. 26 



Meadowlark 



Feb. 25 



Feb. 25 



Brown Thrasher 



Mar. 26 





Phcebe 



Mar. 11 





Vesper Sparrow 



Mar. 26 





Towhee 



Mar. 20 





Cowbird 



Mar. 28 





Song Sparrow 





Mar. 11 



R. C. Kinglet 



Mar. 28 





Fox Sparrow 



Mar. 22 





Y. B. Sapsucker 



Mar. 28 





Mourning Dove 



Feb. 25 





Wilson's Snipe 



Mar. 28 





Normal School, Charleston, 111. 



T. L. Hankinson. 



