Birds of the Sycamore Greenway - Regular, Large and Jumbo

This week is a continuation of the "Birds of the Sycamore Greenway" posted last week. Today will be all about the bigger birds that can be seen along the Greenway trail.

A wonderful resource for identifying birds and learning more about them is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's All About Birds website. Each species' page has photos of similar birds to help with identification, as well as audio of calls and songs and various tidbits of information.

As always, all photos were taken along the Sycamore Greenway or Sycamore Wetlands.

Regular
(robin-sized birds) 

Mourning Dove	Cardinal (female)	American Kestrel
Blue Jay	Common Grackle	Eastern Towhee
Tree Swallow	Red-winged Blackbird	Brown Thrasher
European Starling	Downy Woodpecker	Killdeer
Gray Catbird	Eastern Meadowlark	Baltimore Oriole
Brown-headed Cowbird	Northern Flicker	Red-bellied Woodpecker
American Robin	Orchard Oriole	Rusty Blackbird
Black-billed Cuckoo

Large and Jumbo
(crow- and goose-sized birds)

Great Horned Owl	Trumpeter Swan	American Crow
Bald Eagle	Great Blue Heron	Ring-necked Pheasant
Sandhill Crane	Red-tailed Hawk