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Illinois wildlife

502 species in the Illinois dex: 151 Common, 176 Uncommon, 151 Rare, 24 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#020 🦌 Prairie vole

#024 🦌 Ermine

#051 🐦 Rosy-faced Lovebird

#053 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#055 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#061 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#070 🐦 Swan Goose

#071 🐦 Bar-headed Goose

#086 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#157 🐦 European greenfinch · introduced

#222 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#245 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#274 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#313 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#316 🐦 Cockatiel

#334 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#336 🐦 Brown Pelican

#337 🐦 Grey Partridge · introduced

#338 🐦 Cave Swallow

#441 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#511 🦎 Smooth softshell turtle

#521 🐸 Bird-voiced Treefrog

#540 🐸 Crawfish Frog

#572 🦎 Graham's Crayfish Snake

Rare

151

#001 🦌 North American Hoary Bat

#005 🦌 Wolf

#011 🦌 Plains pocket gopher

#012 🦌 Southern Flying Squirrel

#022 🦌 Woodland vole

#023 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#027 🦌 European Rabbit · introduced

#028 🦌 Tricolored Bat

#029 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#030 🦌 North American Deermouse

#036 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#041 🦌 American Badger

#043 🦌 Meadow jumping mouse

#045 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#048 🐦 Western Grebe

#049 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#058 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#059 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#063 🐦 Mottled Duck

#066 🐦 Anhinga

#068 🐦 Greylag Goose

#075 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#076 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#077 🐦 Golden Eagle

#079 🐦 Limpkin

#084 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#095 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#097 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#098 🐦 American Bittern

#099 🐦 Brent Goose

#104 🐦 Snowy Owl

#106 🐦 Cattle Egret

#115 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#117 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#118 🐦 Lark Bunting

#121 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#125 🐦 Red Knot

#127 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#129 🐦 Purple Sandpiper

#130 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#134 🐦 Ruff

#136 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#143 🐦 European Goldfinch

#166 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#180 🐦 Yellow Rail

#182 🐦 Black swan

#187 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#188 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#199 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#208 🐦 White Ibis

#210 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#212 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#214 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#224 🐦 Pacific Loon

#225 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#231 🐦 Whooping Crane

#236 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#237 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#240 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#241 🐦 Little Gull

#250 🐦 Varied Thrush

#253 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#255 🐦 California Gull

#261 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#262 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#263 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#269 🐦 Laughing Gull

#270 🐦 Franklin's gull

#273 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#275 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#276 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#279 🐦 Red Crossbill

#280 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#282 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#289 🐦 Black Scoter

#291 🐦 Surf Scoter

#293 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#302 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#303 🐦 Wood Stork

#312 🐦 Whimbrel

#314 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#319 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#320 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#332 🐦 Painted Bunting

#342 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#343 🐦 Red Phalarope

#344 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#345 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#352 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#353 🐦 Western Tanager

#357 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#359 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#360 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#364 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#365 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#371 🐦 Purple Gallinule

#379 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#382 🐦 King Rail

#384 🐦 American Avocet

#389 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#392 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#396 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#398 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#402 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#408 🐦 Kirtland's Warbler

#410 🐦 Black-throated Grey Warbler

#418 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#420 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#426 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#439 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#440 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#443 🐦 Common Tern

#445 🐦 Least Tern

#447 🐦 African Collared Dove

#450 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#458 🐦 Bewick's Wren

#465 🐦 Willet

#472 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#476 🐦 Western Kingbird

#478 🐦 American Barn Owl

#489 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#490 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#491 🐦 White-winged Dove

#496 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#500 🐸 Jefferson Salamander

#503 🐸 Marbled Salamander

#504 🐸 Mole Salamander

#506 🐸 Tiger Salamander

#507 🐸 Ambystoma unisexual

#514 🦎 Common Wormsnake

#518 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

#519 🐸 Northern Dusky Salamander

#525 🦎 Blanding's turtle

#529 🦎 Mud Snake

#530 🐸 Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad

#532 🦎 False Map Turtle

#533 🐸 Four-toed Salamander

#534 🦎 House Gecko · introduced

#536 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#538 🦎 Black Kingsnake

#541 🐸 Plains Leopard Frog

#548 🐸 Mudpuppy

#549 🦎 Mississippi Green Water Snake

#551 🦎 Diamondback Water Snake

#556 🦎 Slender Glass Lizard

#570 🐸 Western Chorus Frog

#574 🐸 Eastern Spadefoot

#577 🐸 Lesser Siren

#582 🦎 Ornate Box Turtle

#583 🦎 Three-toed Box Turtle

#588 🦎 Smooth Earth Snake

Uncommon

176

#002 🦌 American bison

#003 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#007 🦌 Red deer

#009 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#013 🦌 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

#014 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#015 🦌 Red Bat

#016 🦌 North American River Otter

#019 🦌 Striped Skunk

#021 🦌 Meadow vole

#032 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#033 🦌 Eastern Mole

#037 🦌 Wild Boar · introduced

#040 🦌 Red Squirrel

#042 🦌 Red Fox

#044 🐦 Common Redpoll

#046 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#057 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#060 🐦 Northern Pintail

#065 🐦 American Black Duck

#067 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#069 🐦 Snow Goose

#072 🐦 Ross's Goose

#073 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#085 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#089 🐦 Redhead

#092 🐦 Greater scaup

#093 🐦 Canvasback

#101 🐦 Cackling Goose

#105 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#111 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#113 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#119 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#122 🐦 Sanderling

#123 🐦 Dunlin

#124 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#128 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#131 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#133 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#135 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#140 🐦 Canada Warbler

#141 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#145 🐦 Veery

#147 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#149 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#153 🐦 Piping Plover

#154 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#156 🐦 Black Tern

#158 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#159 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#160 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#163 🐦 Hen Harrier

#164 🐦 Marsh Wren

#165 🐦 Sedge Wren

#167 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#168 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#171 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#174 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#176 🐦 Black Vulture

#179 🐦 Fish Crow

#183 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#184 🐦 Tundra Swan

#186 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#190 🐦 Bobolink

#194 🐦 Little blue heron

#196 🐦 Snowy egret

#201 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#202 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#203 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#204 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#205 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#206 🐦 Horned Lark

#209 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#213 🐦 Merlin

#215 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#220 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#221 🐦 Common Moorhen

#223 🐦 Common Loon

#227 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#228 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#234 🐦 Purple Finch

#238 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#244 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#247 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#248 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#252 🐦 Northern Shrike

#258 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#260 🐦 Iceland Gull

#265 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#272 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#281 🐦 American Wigeon

#285 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#290 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#292 🐦 Wild Turkey

#295 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#299 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#307 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#315 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#321 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#323 🐦 Osprey

#324 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#325 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#327 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#331 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#339 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#346 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#355 🐦 Summer Tanager

#358 🐦 Snow Bunting

#361 🐦 American Golden Plover

#362 🐦 Grey Plover

#363 🐦 Horned Grebe

#370 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#372 🐦 Sora

#374 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#383 🐦 Virginia Rail

#388 🐦 Sand Martin

#393 🐦 American Woodcock

#394 🐦 Ovenbird

#400 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#401 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#403 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#405 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#406 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#407 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#414 🐦 Pine Warbler

#416 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#417 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#428 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#429 🐦 Pine Siskin

#434 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#442 🐦 Forster's Tern

#446 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#448 🐦 Barred owl

#462 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#464 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#466 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#468 🐦 Winter Wren

#479 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#480 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#481 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#482 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#484 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#486 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#488 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#498 🦎 Copperhead

#501 🐸 Blue-spotted Salamander

#502 🐸 Spotted Salamander

#505 🐸 Small-mouthed Salamander

#512 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#513 🦎 Six-lined Racerunner

#520 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#522 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#524 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#526 🐸 Southern Two-lined Salamander

#527 🐸 Long-tailed Salamander

#528 🐸 Cave Salamander

#531 🦎 Common map turtle

#535 🦎 Turkish Gecko · introduced

#537 🦎 Prairie Kingsnake

#539 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#544 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#550 🦎 Plainbelly Water Snake

#554 🦎 Rough Greensnake

#555 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#558 🦎 Black Rat Snake

#560 🦎 Eastern Fox Snake

#563 🦎 Broadhead Skink

#565 🐸 Northern Zigzag Salamander

#566 🐸 Northern Slimy Salamander

#571 🦎 River Cooter

#573 🦎 Queen Snake

#575 🦎 Fence Lizard

#576 🦎 Ground Skink

#578 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#580 🦎 Redbelly Snake

#584 🦎 Western Ribbonsnake

Common

151

#004 🦌 Coyote

#006 🦌 American beaver

#008 🦌 Virginia opossum

#010 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#017 🦌 Bobcat

#018 🦌 Woodchuck

#025 🦌 White-tailed deer

#026 🦌 Muskrat

#031 🦌 Raccoon

#034 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#035 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#038 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#039 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#047 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#052 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#054 🐦 Wood Duck

#062 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#064 🐦 Mallard

#081 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#082 🐦 Great Egret

#083 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#088 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#090 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#094 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#096 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#100 🐦 Canada goose

#107 🐦 Bufflehead

#108 🐦 Common goldeneye

#110 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#112 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#116 🐦 Green Heron

#142 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#144 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#146 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#148 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#150 🐦 Brown Creeper

#151 🐦 Chimney Swift

#155 🐦 Killdeer

#169 🐦 Northern Flicker

#172 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#175 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#177 🐦 American Crow

#181 🐦 Blue Jay

#191 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#192 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#193 🐦 Gray Catbird

#217 🐦 American Kestrel

#219 🐦 American Coot

#230 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#232 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#233 🐦 House Finch

#235 🐦 Bald Eagle

#239 🐦 Barn Swallow

#242 🐦 Caspian Tern

#243 🐦 Wood Thrush

#246 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#251 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#257 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#264 🐦 American Herring Gull

#266 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#267 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#268 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#278 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#283 🐦 Gadwall

#284 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#286 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#287 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#294 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#296 🐦 Song Sparrow

#297 🐦 Goosander

#298 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#300 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#301 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#305 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#326 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#328 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#329 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#333 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#335 🐦 American White Pelican

#341 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#347 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#351 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#354 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#366 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#367 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#368 🐦 Carolina Chickadee

#369 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#373 🐦 Purple Martin

#380 🐦 Common Grackle

#385 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#386 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#391 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#399 🐦 Northern Parula

#404 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#409 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#411 🐦 Palm Warbler

#412 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#413 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#415 🐦 American Redstart

#419 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#421 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#422 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#423 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#425 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#427 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#431 🐦 American Goldfinch

#432 🐦 Dickcissel

#435 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#436 🐦 Field Sparrow

#437 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#438 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#449 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#451 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#453 🐦 Tree Swallow

#459 🐦 Carolina Wren

#461 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#467 🐦 House Wren

#469 🐦 American Robin

#475 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#483 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#485 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#492 🐦 Mourning Dove

#493 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#495 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#497 🐸 Blanchard's Cricket Frog

#499 🦎 Cottonmouth

#508 🐸 American Toad

#509 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#510 🦎 Brown Anole · introduced

#515 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#516 🦎 Painted Turtle

#517 🦎 Eastern Racer

#523 🐸 Green Treefrog

#542 🐸 American Bullfrog

#543 🐸 Green Frog

#545 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#546 🐸 Southern Leopard Frog

#547 🐸 Wood Frog

#552 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#553 🐸 Eastern Newt

#557 🦎 Eastern Rat Snake

#561 🦎 Gopher Snake

#562 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#564 🐸 Redback Salamander

#567 🐸 Spring Peeper

#569 🐸 Boreal Chorus Frog

#579 🦎 Brown Snake

#581 🦎 Common Box Turtle

#585 🦎 Plains Garter Snake

#586 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#587 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#050 🐦 Yellow-collared Lovebird · introduced

#056 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#074 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#078 🐦 Chestnut-fronted Macaw · introduced

#080 🐦 Blue-crowned parakeet · introduced

#087 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#091 🐦 Tufted Duck

#102 🐦 Barnacle Goose

#103 🐦 White-winged Parakeet · introduced

#109 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#114 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#120 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#126 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#132 🐦 Little Stint

#137 🐦 Gambel's Quail

#138 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#139 🐦 Southern Caracara

#152 🐦 Common Ringed Plover

#161 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#162 🐦 Golden Pheasant

#170 🐦 Green Violetear

#173 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#178 🐦 Common Raven

#185 🐦 Whooper Swan

#189 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#195 🐦 Reddish Egret

#197 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#198 🐦 Small-billed Elaenia · introduced

#200 🐦 White-tailed Kite

#207 🐦 Orange-cheeked waxbill

#211 🐦 Northern Red Bishop

#216 🐦 Gyrfalcon

#218 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#226 🐦 Gull-billed Tern

#229 🐦 MacGillivray's Warbler

#249 🐦 Least Bittern

#254 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#256 🐦 Black-tailed Gull

#259 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#271 🐦 Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

#277 🐦 Scaly-breasted Munia · introduced

#288 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#304 🐦 Ash-throated Flycatcher

#306 🐦 Painted Whitestart

#308 🐦 Nanday parakeet · introduced

#309 🐦 Clark's Nutcracker

#310 🐦 Long-billed Curlew

#311 🐦 Hudsonian Whimbrel

#317 🐦 Northern Wheatear

#318 🐦 Sooty Tern

#322 🐦 Ivory Gull

#330 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#340 🐦 Cassin's Sparrow

#348 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#349 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#350 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#356 🐦 Great Kiskadee

#375 🐦 Rose-ringed Parakeet · introduced

#376 🐦 Short-Tailed Shearwater

#377 🐦 Red-whiskered bulbul · introduced

#378 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#381 🐦 Clapper Rail

#387 🐦 Ross's Gull

#390 🐦 Rock Wren

#395 🐦 Broad-tailed Hummingbird

#397 🐦 Atlantic Canary

#424 🐦 King Eider

#430 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#433 🐦 Brewer's Sparrow

#444 🐦 Arctic Tern

#452 🐦 Ancient Murrelet

#454 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#455 🐦 Zebra Finch

#456 🐦 Royal Tern

#457 🐦 Sandwich Tern

#460 🐦 Curve-billed Thrasher

#463 🐦 Wandering Tattler

#470 🐦 Greater Prairie Chicken

#471 🐦 Gray Kingbird

#473 🐦 Tropical Kingbird

#474 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#477 🐦 Cassin's Kingbird

#487 🐦 Plumbeous Vireo

#494 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow

#559 🦎 Gray Rat Snake

#568 🐸 Illinois Chorus Frog