page_title: Fauna of Illinois
section_title: Birds
hierarchical_section_title: Fauna of Illinois / List of native species / Birds
caption_attribution_description: English: Flock of American White Pelicans on the Illinois River near Jonesville, Illinois
context_page_description: The fauna of Illinois include a wide variety of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and insects.
  The state bird is the Northern cardinal.
  The state insect is the monarch butterfly.
  The state animal is the white-tailed deer.
  The state fish is the bluegill.
  The state fossil is the tully monster.
  The state amphibian is the eastern tiger salamander.
  The state reptile is the painted turtle.
context_section_description: For a complete list, see list of birds of Illinois.
  Fulvous whistling duck
  Black-bellied whistling-duck
  Greater white-fronted goose
  Snow goose
  Ross's goose
  Cackling goose
  Canada goose
  Mute swan
  Trumpeter swan
  Tundra swan
  Wood duck
  Gadwall
  Eurasian wigeon
  American wigeon
  American black duck
  Mallard
  Mottled duck
  Blue-winged teal
  Cinnamon teal
  Northern shoveler
  White-cheeked pintail
  Northern pintail
  Garganey
  Green-winged teal
  Canvasback
  Redhead
  Ring-necked duck
  Tufted duck
  Greater scaup
  Lesser scaup
  King eider
  Common eider
  Harlequin duck
  Surf scoter
  White-winged scoter
  Black scoter
  Long-tailed duck
  Bufflehead
  Common goldeneye
  Barrow's goldeneye
  Hooded merganser
  Common merganser
  Red-breasted merganser
  Ruddy duck
  Gray partridge
  Ring-necked pheasant
  Greater prairie chicken
  Northern bobwhite
  Red-throated loon
  Black-throated loon
  Pacific loon
  Common loon
  Yellow-billed loon
  Pied-billed grebe
  Horned grebe
  Red-necked grebe
  Black-necked grebe
  Western grebe
  Clark's grebe
  Northern gannet
  American white pelican
  Brown pelican
  Double-crested cormorant
  Neotropic cormorant
  Anhinga
  Magnificent frigatebird
  American bittern
  Least bittern
  Great blue heron
  Great egret
  Snowy egret
  Little blue heron
  Tricolored heron
  Reddish egret
  Cattle egret
  Green heron
  Black-crowned night heron
  Yellow-crowned night heron
  American white ibis
  Glossy ibis
  White-faced ibis
  Wood stork
  Black vulture
  Turkey vulture
  Osprey
  Swallow-tailed kite
  White-tailed kite
  Mississippi kite
  Bald eagle
  Hen harrier
  Sharp-shinned hawk
  Cooper's hawk
  Northern goshawk
  Red-shouldered hawk
  Broad-winged hawk
  Swainson's hawk
  Red-tailed hawk
  Ferruginous hawk
  Rough-legged buzzard
  Golden eagle
  American kestrel
  Merlin
  Gyrfalcon
  Prairie falcon
  Yellow rail
  Black rail
  King rail
  Virginia rail
  American purple gallinule
  Common moorhen
  American coot
  Sandhill crane
  Whooping crane
  Black-bellied plover
  American golden plover
  Snowy plover
  Killdeer
  Black-necked stilt
  American avocet
  Greater yellowlegs
  Lesser yellowlegs
  Solitary sandpiper
  Willet
  Spotted sandpiper
  Upland sandpiper
  Eskimo curlew
  Whimbrel
  Long-billed curlew
  Hudsonian godwit
  Marbled godwit
  Ruddy turnstone
  Red knot
  Sanderling
  Semipalmated sandpiper
  Western sandpiper
  Least sandpiper
  White-rumped sandpiper
  Baird's sandpiper
  Pectoral sandpiper
  Sharp-tailed sandpiper
  Purple sandpiper
  Dunlin
  Curlew sandpiper
  Stilt sandpiper
  Buff-breasted sandpiper
  Ruff
  Short-billed dowitcher
  Long-billed dowitcher
  Wilson's snipe
  American woodcock
  Wilson's phalarope
  Red phalarope
  Red-necked phalarope
  Long-tailed jaeger
  Parasitic jaeger
  Pomarine jaeger
  Laughing gull
  Franklin's gull
  Little gull
  Black-headed gull
  Bonaparte's gull
  Common gull
  Ring-billed gull
  California gull
  American herring gull
  Thayer's gull
  Iceland gull
  Lesser black-backed gull
  Slaty-backed gull
  Western gull
  Glaucous-winged gull
  Glaucous gull
  Great black-backed gull
  Sabine's gull
  Black-legged kittiwake
  Ross's gull
  Ivory gull
  Gull-billed tern
  Caspian tern
  Royal tern
  Sandwich tern
  Common tern
  Arctic tern
  Forster's tern
  Least tern
  Sooty tern
  Large-billed tern
  Black tern
  Black skimmer
  Rock pigeon
  Band-tailed pigeon
  Eurasian collared dove
  White-winged dove
  Mourning dove
  Inca dove
  Common ground dove
  Monk parakeet
  Black-billed cuckoo
  Groove-billed ani
  Barn owl
  Eastern screech owl
  Great horned owl
  Snowy owl
  Northern hawk owl
  Burrowing owl
  Barred owl
  Long-eared owl
  Short-eared owl
  Boreal owl
  Northern saw-whet owl
  Common nighthawk
  Chuck-will's-widow
  Whip-poor-will
  Chimney swift
  Ruby-throated hummingbird
  Broad-tailed hummingbird
  Rufous hummingbird
  Allen's hummingbird
  Belted kingfisher
  Red-headed woodpecker
  Red-bellied woodpecker
  Williamson's sapsucker
  Yellow-bellied sapsucker
  Downy woodpecker
  Hairy woodpecker
  Red-cockaded woodpecker
  Black-backed woodpecker
  Northern flicker
  Pileated woodpecker
  Olive-sided flycatcher
caption: American White Pelicans on the Illinois River
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