Birds and animals identified along highways between Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the North Side of Chicago today. (Note: All 89 ring-billed gulls seen east of Oak Park, Ill.)
Red-winged blackird 246, common grackle 96, european starling 106, rock dove 39, eastern kingbird 1, mourning dove 3, american crow 10, barn swallow 8, killdeer 2, turkey vulture 4, groundhog 1, tree swallow 5, northern cardinal 1, red-tailed hawk 4, american robin 1, american goldfinch 1, ring-billed gull 89, thirteen-lined ground-squirrel 1.
- Prairie State Outdoors
- Birds and Blooms
- Bird Digiscoper
- Stray Casts
- Illinois Outdoors
- Kenn Kaufman
- Bill of the Birds
- Stokes Birding Blog
- PEEPS Online
- Moosejaw Madness
- Midwest HazeCam
- The Cleanest Line
- The Outside Blog
- The Daily Dirt
- From Gildersleeve
- Daily Chicago Photo
- Chiang Mai Kud
- Sabaijai
- Solo in Patagonia
- SFB
About driftless area
- UptownRooster
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Driftless area is named after the post-glacial geologic formation of northwestern Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin.
2 comments:
You saw all these from a car window on the highway?
I'm surprised that red-winged blackbird are so common and northern cardinals are so rare.
Yep -- all from the passenger side window. Stared at the south side of I-88 for a long way. Red-wings are the most commonly seen breeding bird in Illinois. I wonder, though, if they get counted more because they are fairly large and easy to identify. There are certainly a ton of sparrows, warblers and other small birds that are really hard to see from a highway. I also heard once that the forest-dwelling red-eyed vireo is the most common breeding bird in North America.
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