Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

Celebrating the surprising biodiversity of a county sometimes relegated to being thought of as just cornfields! Will be adding to this incrementally with confirmed observations of all forms of life in Lee County, using sources such as INHS, several guides, natural area catalogs, and of course ...more ↓

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Pileated Woodpecker ¹
Dryocopus pileatus

Red-bellied Woodpecker ²
Melanerpes carolinus

Red-headed Woodpecker ³
Melanerpes erythrocephalus

Northern Flicker ⁴
Colaptes auratus

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ⁵
Sphyrapicus varius

Downy Woodpecker ⁶
Dryobates pubescens

Hairy Woodpecker ⁷
Dryobates villosus

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Lee County, IL Biodiversity (WIP)

Pileated Woodpecker 1 Dryocopus pileatus

Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Melanerpes carolinus

Red-headed Woodpecker 3 Melanerpes erythrocephalus

Northern Flicker 4 Colaptes auratus

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5 Sphyrapicus varius

Downy Woodpecker 6 Dryobates pubescens

Hairy Woodpecker 7 Dryobates villosus