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The Natural World of Southern Illinois

This is a growing guide of all the wildlife and plant species that one might find in Southern Illinois.

Dunlin 1
Calidris alpina
White-rumped Sandpiper 2
Calidris fuscicollis
Stilt Sandpiper 3
Calidris himantopus
Pectoral Sandpiper 4
Calidris melanotos
Least Sandpiper 5
Calidris minutilla
Semipalmated Sandpiper 6
Calidris pusilla
Lesser Yellowlegs 7
Tringa flavipes
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Tringa melanoleuca
Solitary Sandpiper 9
Tringa solitaria
Common Snipe 10
Gallinago gallinago
American Woodcock 2
Scolopax minor
Upland Sandpiper 2
Bartramia longicauda
Forster's Tern 11
Sterna forsteri
Common Tern 12
Sterna hirundo
Black Tern 13
Chlidonias niger
Herring Gull 14
Larus argentatus
Ring-billed Gull 15
Larus delawarensis
Semipalmated Plover 16
Charadrius semipalmatus
Killdeer 17
Charadrius vociferus
American Golden Plover 18
Pluvialis dominica

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