Name: _______________________________
Class: ________________________________
Date: ________________________________
Title: ________________________________
Illinois Birds Research Project
You are to research one of the selected species of common Illinois birds listed on this assignment. Your
project must include a well researched PowerPoint presentation 5-8 slides long (not including works
cited) as well as various photos of your chosen species. Each species may only be chosen by one
student. You will present these in class during the next class period. If you do not have time to finish
today, it is your responsibility to finish BEFORE class begins the next time. Your project must meet the
following criteria:
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5-8 slides in length
A digital copy turned in by due date given
Presentation 3-5 minutes in length
Describe given species for a variety of its characteristics to include (at minimum):
 Scientific name
 feeding/digestion
 habitat
 body symmetry/shape
 movement
 current research
 coloring
 life cycle
 other interesting facts
 defense
 reproduction
Possible Species:
1) American coot
2) Bald eagle
3) Belted kingfisher
4) Blue jay
5) Canada goose
6) Cardinal
7) Common loon
8) Common nighthawk
9) Eastern kingbird
10) Eastern meadowlark
11) Eastern towhee
12) Golden eagle
13) Great blue heron
14) Greater Prairie
Chicken
15) Green heron
16) Indigo bunting
17) Mallard
18) Northern bobwhite
19) Orchard oriole
20) Osprey
21) Peregrine falcon
22) Red-bellied
woodpecker
23) Red-tailed hawk
24) Ring-billed gull
25) Ruby-throated
hummingbird
26) Scarlet tanager
27) Turkey vulture
28) Western grebe
29) Whooping crane
30) Wood duck
31) Wood stork
32) Wood thrush
33) Yellow-billed
cuckoo
34) Yellow-rumped
warbler
35) American golden
plover
36) Mourning dove
37) Barn owl
38) Great horned owl
39) Burrowing owl
40) Whip-poor-will
41) Chimney swift
42) Downy woodpecker
43) Eastern phoebe
44) Horned lark
45) Purple martin
46) Barn swallow
47) Carolina chickadee
48) Tufted titmouse
49) House wren
50) Blue-gray
gnatcatcher
51) Eastern bluebird
52) American robin
53) Gray catbird
54) European starling
55) House finch