We’re gearing up for the second year of the Blitz. Nick Sly, IOS Coordinator for the Blitz, posted complete details here on the Illinois Birders Forum website. IOS is proud to be a sponsor of this important project here in Illinois. Mark your calendar and make your plans to get out there between March 1 and April 15…to count those Rustys!
2013 Vol. 22 Number 2
46 The 2012 Illinois and Mississippi River Fall Waterbird and Wetland Habitat Report
– Aaron P. Yetter, Michael M. Horath and Heath M. Hagy
52 First Illinois Record … The Wandering Tattler
– Matthew Ligas
53 Eighteenth Report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee
– Paul Sweet
Photo Gallery
62 & 63 Fall Migration
56 Field Notes: The 2012 Fall Migration
– David B. Johnson
Articles2 An integrative approach to testing density affects in a migratory songbird, the Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea), in southern Illinois – Nicole Davros, Stephanie Wheeler, Wendy Schelsky, Jeffrey Brawn and Jeffrey Hoover
Photo Gallery
21 & 24 Summer Color
22 & 23 Nesting Behavior
9 Field Notes: The 2012 breeding season
– Steven D. Bailey
126 Elaeniamania 126
– Aaron Gyllenhaal
128 Illinois’s first winter record of the Black-throated Blue Warbler at sapsucker wells
with notes on other Midwest and Mid -Canada winter records
– David B. Johnson
Photo Gallery
144 & 145 Spring Birds
131 The 2012 Illinois Statewide Spring Bird Count
– Michael P. Ward and Tara Beveroth
138 Field Notes: The 2012 spring migration
– Geoffrey A. Williamson
74 Illinois’s record irruption of Snowy Owls during the winter of 2011/2012
with notes on historical distribution
– David B. Johnson
84 A sampling of Snowy Owl pellet contents during winter 2011/2012
– Joshua I. Engel
Photo Gallery
85 A Snowy Owl Extravaganza
89 The 2011/2012 Christmas Bird Count 89
– Paul W. Sweet
99 Field Notes: Winter Season 2011/2012 99
– Kelly J. McKay and Steven D. Bailey
42 Does body condition explain patterns of songbird density in response to urbanization?
– Jason D. Fischer and James R. Miller
45 Seventeenth Report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee
– Douglas F. Stotz
50 Field Notes: The 2011 Fall Migration 50
– Douglas F. Stotz
Photo Gallery:
56-57 Fall Birds of Illinois
2 Bohm Woods and the SIUE Nature Preserve: Valuable Conservation Assets for Southwestern Illinois
Richard L. Essner, Jr., Zachary R. French, Lane M. Richter, and Peter R. Minchin
6 The Bobolinking Project: Experiments in Field Ornithology
Kimberly Meyer Ramirez
9 Birding the Jane Addams Trail in Northwestern Illinois
– Keith and Mary Blackmore
Photo Essays:
10 Peregrine Falcons nest at St. Michael Church
20 Sandhill Cranes attempt nesting in central Illinois
30 Mississippi Kites continue nesting in Rockford
11 Field Notes: The 2011 Breeding Season
– Steven D. Bailey
122 An avian census of Lowell Park
– Pete Oliver
127 Birders act to protect Black-crowned Night-Heron rookery in Lincoln Park
– Carolyn A. Marsh
Twenty years of changes in Illinois bird life:
three views
129 – 1 The northward movement of the Blue -gray Gnatcatcher in Illinois
– Tara Beveroth
131 – 2 Rising numbers of American White Pelican in Illinois -a perspective
– Sheryl DeVore
132 – 3 Cooper’s Hawk: from rare to abundant, a suburban success story?
– Robert Fisher
133 Avian Annals: Twenty years ago in Meadowlark
– Sheryl DeVore
Photo Galleries:
134 Mega rarities
140-141 Spring Birds of Illinois
135 Field Notes: The 2011 spring migration
– Geoffrey A. Williamson
82 Anna’s Hummingbird: Illinois’ first record
– Vernon Kleen with details from Ann Hayes
84 Inbreeding of Illinois Peregrine Falcons
– Mary Hennen
86 IOS awards seven research grants 86
– Tara Beveroth
90 The 2011 Illinois Statewide Spring Bird Count
– Michael P. Ward and Tara Beveroth
97 Field Notes: The 2010/2011 Winter Season
– Kelly J. McKay
42 Impacts of habitat restoration on songbirds in Chicago area forest preserves:
preliminary results from the 2010 breeding season
— Sarah H. Cleeton and James R. Miller
47 Red-eyed Vireo’s migratory route fidelity in an urban environment
— Vernon M. Kleen
48 The 2010/2011 Illinois Christmas Bird Count
— Paul W. Sweet
58 Field Notes: The 2010 fall migration
— Douglas F. Stotz
