BIRD FINDING 
Siloam Springs State Park Adams & Brown counties 
Description: Siloam Springs State Park, located in Adams and Brown counties, is the third 
largest state recreational holding in Illinois. A total of 3,025 acres includes many deep, wooded 
ravines, extensive evergreen plantings, some native prairie, and a 68-acre lake. Picnicking, 
camping, and fishing are popular pursuits of the many visitors to the Park. 
Directions: The park may be approached from U.S. Rt. 24 at Clayton, or from Ill. Rt. 104 
between Quincy and Fishhook (three turnoffs.) Look for Park signs. 
Birding: Siloam Springs Park is good at any time of the year. Large areas are sheltered in the 
winter enabling such species as Cooper’s and Sharp-shinned hawks, Saw-whet Owls and 
Hermit Thrushes to winter there. Migration, both spring and fall, brings a large variety of species 
to the Park; a day’s list of over 100 is possible in May in the park alone. 
The breeding birds of Siloam Springs make it a unique area. Probably no other area of 
comparable size in west-central Illinois supports so many nesting species. The area near the 
springs for which the Park was named is one of the best. Such species include: Scarlet and 
Summer tanagers, Red-eyed and Yellow-throated vireos, Acadian and Least flycatchers, Parula, 
Cerulean, Blue-winged, Kentucky and Worm-eating warblers, Ovenbird, Louisiana Wa- 
terthrush, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Ruby-throated Hummingbird. 
Habitat exists for Prairie, Pine and Yellow-throated warblers; however, there are no known 
summer records. Such species, if discovered, or any other unusual breeding species should be 
immediately reported. Additional records of known breeding species are also needed to more 
clearly understand their abundance and distribution in the Park. No doubt, rare species, nesting 
or otherwise, could be found in the Park if it were birded more inténsively. 
—Jim Funk 
Re 1). Box 1:20 
Liberty, IL 62347 
Illinois Audubon Bulletin, Fall, 1976. 
Supplement to BIRD FINDING IN ILLINOIS, 
by The Illinois Audubon Society, 1975. 
