Meadowlark Archives

  2008 Vol. 17 Number 3

Articles

82 Carlyle Lake Gulls: a season of rarities with notes on how and when to locate them
— Dan Kassebaum

86 A potential first North American record of ‘Kamchatka’ Mew Gull away from Pacific Ocean
— Bill Rudden

89 Three rare sea ducks in central Illinois
— Matthew Winks

91 Ruddy Turnstone: first Illinois CBC record
— Carolyn Marsh

Departments

92 The 2007/2008 Illinois Christmas Bird Count
— Paul Sweet

103 Field Notes: The 2007/2008 winter season
— Kelly J. McKay

  2008 Vol. 17 Number 2

Articles

42 The Plover Project:
Key stopovers, regional abundance, and habitat associations of American Golden-Plovers in the Grand Prairie Region
– Ben O’Neal and Mark Alessi

Departments

48 Fourteenth Report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee
– Douglas F. Stotz

55 Bird finding guide:
Hardin County’s “Rock Route”
– Eric Walters

58 Yard Birds:
Reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois
– Robert Fisher

60 Field Notes: The 2007 fall migration
– Douglas F. Stotz

79 Index to Volume 16
– Renee Baade

  2008 Vol. 17 Number 1

 

Articles

2 On the hunt for Sprague’s Pipit:
a composite of Sprague’s Pipit observations from Southern Illinois and Southwestern Missouri with tips on locating the bird
– Dan Kassebaum and Joe Eades

7 IOS awards five grants for important research projects
– Robert Fisher

Departments

10 Yard Birds
Reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois
– Robert Fisher

13 Field Notes: The 2007 breeding season
– Steven D. Bailey

  2007 Vol. 16 Number 4

Articles

122 Calls, captures and collisions:
Triangulating three census methods to better understand nightly passage of songbird migrants through the Chicago region during May
– Melissa Schramm, Jacqueline Fiala, Terese Noe, Paul Sweet, Annette Prince, Caleb Gordon

130 Summer Tanager visits jelly feeder in DuPage County
– Melinda Born Chapman

Departments

131 The 2007 Illinois Statewide Spring Bird Count
– Vernon M. Kleen

141 Field Notes: 2007 spring migration season 141
– Travis A. Mahan

Note: The Index to Meadowlark Volume 16 will be published as an addendum or in a future issue.

  2007 Vol. 16 Number 3

 

Articles

82 A Barnacle Goose in LaSalle County 82
with a discussion on provenance of North American and Illinois records
– Michael L. P. Retter

85 Birding little-known spots in Jackson County
– Rhonda Monroe Rothrock

88 Black-headed Gull at Montrose, Cook County: first documented record in Illinois in nearly 20 years
– Sheryl DeVore

Departments

91 The 2006/2007 Illinois Christmas Bird Count
– Paul Sweet

106 Field Notes: The 2006/2007 winter season
– Kelly J. McKay

  2007 Vol. 16 Number 2

 

Articles

42 The long, slow exodus of Chimney Swifts in fall 2006
– Paul R. Clyne

47 Illinois Beach State Park Hawk Watch records first Swainson’s Hawks
– Vic Berardi

48 IOS awards two grants for research on Red-headed Woodpeckers and American Golden -Plovers in Illinois

49 In Memoriam Birders, friends, teachers
Ben Gelman, Jerry Kumery and James Landing

Departments

53 Seasonal Highlights
-Western and Red-necked Grebes: from one slough to another
-For Say’s Phoebe, visit a hawk watch
– Sheryl De Vore

54 Yard Birds
Reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois
– Robert Fisher

56 Thirteenth report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee
– Douglas F. Stotz

62 Field Notes: The 2006 fall migration
– Douglas F. Stotz

  2006 Vol. 15 Number 4

 

Articles

122 Jackson Park: worst migration ever?
– Paul R. Clyne

124 MacGillivray’s Warbler in Kane County: second state record
– Scott Cohrs

125 Yellow-throated Warbler at Vermilion County feeder
– Marilyn F. Campbell

125 Selected instances of Yellow-throated Warblers at feeders
– Sheryl De Vore

Departments

127 Yard Birds: Reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois
– Robert Fisher

129 The 2006 Illinois spring bird count
– Vernon M. Kleen

140 Field Notes: 2006 Spring Migration
– Travis A. Mahan

Note: The Index to Meadowlark Volume 15 will be published as an addendum or in a future issue.

 

  2007 Vol. 16 Number 1

 

Articles

2 Illinois’ first breeding Trumpeter Swans in modern times,
with comments on national and Midwestern reintroduction programs
– Sheryl DeVore and Eric Walters

7 Wintering Trumpeter Swans in Southern Illinois
– Dana Varner and Michael Eichholz

10 Scarlet Tanager assists Summer Tanager with nesting activities in Cook County
– Wes Serafin

12 Observations of nesting Red -headed Woodpeckers at Bluff Spring Fen, Cook County
– Arlene Koziol

Departments

14 Photo Gallery
Red -headed Woodpecker breeds successfully at Plum Creek Forest Preserve, Cook County
– Emil Martinec

16 Yard Birds
Reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois
– Robert Fisher

18 Field Notes: The 2006 breeding season
– Vernon M. Kleen

39 Index to Meadowlark Volume 15
– Compiled by Renee Baade

  2006 Vol. 15 Number 3

 

Articles

82 The love song of Catharus guttatus:
Hermit Thrushes singing in Illinois
– Paul R. Clyne

86 Juvenile Hermit Thrush in Chicago
– Geoffrey A. Williamson

87 Memory Lane: The 1978 Chicago Ross’s Gull
– Carolyn A. Marsh

Photo Essays
90 Bald Eagles in winter
– Mary Kay Rubey
92 Winter birds of Illinois
– Mary Kay Rubey, Matt Fletcher, Chris Young

Departments

93 The 2005/2006 Illinois Christmas Bird Count
– David B. Johnson

104 Field Notes: The 2005/2006 winter season
– Kelly J. McKay

  2006 Vol. 15 Number 2

 

Articles

42 Inca Dove: first state record
– Homer and Amber Hanson

43 Invasion of the doves: Illinois and regional patterns in a national context
– Steven D. Bailey

48 Sooty Tern specimen from Illinois 48
– H. David Bohlen

49 Hurricane Dennis delivers a Sooty Tern to Carlyle Lake
– Dan Kassebaum

50 Magnificent Frigatebird in DuPage County
– Robert Fisher

Departments

51 Bird Finding Guide
An Important Illinois Bird Area: Lost Mound Unit of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
– Dan Wenny, Ed Anderson and Randy Nÿboer

57 Twelfth report of the Illinois Ornithological
Records Committee
– Douglas F. Stotz and David B. Johnson

61 Field Notes: The 2005 fall migration
– Douglas F. Stotz

80 Erratta Sheet for “The Birds of Illinois”
– By H. David Bohlen