IOS Publications
Meadowlark, A Journal of Illinois Birds is the quarterly magazine of the Illinois Ornithological Society. The journal includes field notes, seasonal highlights, technical papers on avian studies in the Illinois and Midwestern area, photos, original drawings, and joy-of-birding essays. A popular column is the Bird-finding Guide, which gives details on where and when to find your most coveted birds. IOS members receive four issues of the Meadowlark with their annual subscription. For information on submitting articles, illustrations, and photographs contact the chief editor, Sheryl DeVore.
Wings Over the Prairie is the quarterly newsletter of the Illinois Ornithological Society. The newsletter contains articles about field trips, book reviews, IOS announcements, product reviews, member profiles, and general birding information. IOS members receive four issues of Wings Over the Prairie with their annual subscription. Articles, news items, photographs, illustrations, and inquiries should be sent to the editor, Marj Lundy.
Meadowlark Back Issue Sale!
All back issues of the Meadowlark are now available for $1.00 plus postage. Supplies of some issues are limited (less than 15 copies left). Send an e-mail to Denis Bohm with the issues you would like to buy and he will check inventory and calculate the total cost including postage for you. Please specify the Volume and Number that you want, e.g. Volume 10, Number 5.
Note: The Meadowlark Archives section below shows the contents of each Volume and Number but uses Issue instead of Number. So, Volume 1, Number 1 is shown as Volume 1, Issue 1.
Meadowlark Archives
The following is a highlight of articles featured in back issues of the Meadowlark. Click each volume to reveal the contents for that volume. Click again to hide the contents.
Volume 1 (1992)
Issue #1 - Premiere issue - The Des Plaines River
Wetlands Demonstration Project, a bird finding guide to shorebirds in southern Illinois.
Issue #2 - Where, when, & how to watch hawks.
Issue #3 - Snowy Owl invasion, the rare wintering Ivory Gull.
Issue #4 - Spring Bird Count, bird rehabilitation.
Volume 2 (1993)
Issue #1 - Grassland bird population changes in Illinois and neotropical migrants studies.
Issue #2 - The status of Chicago's Peregrine Release & Restoration Project.
Issue #3 - The status of Bald Eagles in Illinois.
Issue #4 - The Greater Prairie-Chicken in Illinois and the first confirmed state record
of the Painted Bunting.
Volume 3 (1994)
Issue #1 - The changing role of bird banding in Illinois and the nation.
Issue #2 - Rufous Hummingbird records and gull identification.
Issue #3 - Christmas Bird Counts, how useful are they?
Issue #4 - How many birds die due to skyscrapers and other urban death traps?
Volume 4 (1995)
Issue #1 - The relationship between songbird breeding
success and small mammal abundance, and an exciting new breeding bird hotspot.
Issue #2 - Illinois' endangered and threatened birds.
Issue #3 - A Christmas Bird Count compiler goes on nine CBC's in less than two weeks.
Issue #4 - The biology and ecology of heronries.
Volume 5 (1996)
Issue #1 - The status of the House Finch in Illinois and how its presence affects the House Sparrow.
Issue #2 - Chicago Lakefront Birding.
Issue #3 - The role of habitat in the breeding and migratory success of wetland birds, plus a look at a rare ephemeral wetland in central Illinois.
Issue #4 - The average arrival dates of all your favorite migrants in eastern Illinois and three other Midwestern sites.
Volume 6 (1997)
Issue #1 - Our fifth anniversary issue helps you update
your field guides and life lists to reflect the current changes in species designations in North American birds.
Issue #2 - Details on birds parasitized by the Brown-headed Cowbird.
Issue #3 - Christmas Bird Count and Band-tailed Pigeon records.
Issue #4 - Illinois Spring Bird Count results are featured plus an article on the state's first Gull-billed Tern (Sterna nilotica).
Volume 7 (1998)
Issue #1 - Sabine's Gull in the Middlewestern Prairie
Region
Issue #2 - Are Breeding Herons and Egrets Deserting the Central Illinois River Floodplain?
Issue #3 - Featured article on Eastern Bird Populations in
Dupage County and the 1997 Christmas Bird Count.
Issue #4 - The 1998 Spring Bird Count results and the first of the series on Avian Studies in Illinois.
Volume 8 (1999)
Issue #1 - A series of featured articles on various species of
interest breeding in Illinois including: Monk Parakeet, Osprey, Mississippi Kite, Bewick's Wren, Purple Gallinule, and Common Terns.
Issue #2 - A series of
featured articles on the first Illinois Records of the Black Skimmer, Allen's Hummingbird, and White-winged Dove.
Issue #3 - Potential effects of increased
predation risk on nestling House Wren quality and survival.
Issue #4 - A series of articles on state records for the following species: Gray Kingbird, Tropical/Couch's Kingbird, Garganey, Painted Bunting.
Volume 9 (2000)
Issue #1 - An excellent series of sight and nesting records for a
variety of species including such species as Black-necked Stilt and Western Kingbird.
Issue #2 - A look at the historical and rare birding in the state.
Issue #3 - Explore some Illinois "firsts" and the widespread invasion of Northern Shrikes.
Issue #4 - Highlights include the 2000 spring bird count and migrations records.
Volume 10 (2001)
Issue #1 - For the first time in history, the Painted Bunting has become a confirmed breeder in Illinois.
Issue #2 - Dr. Steven Havera looks at the effects of land practices on waterfowl in Illinois, and the federally endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker visits Illinois Beach State Park.
Issue #3 - Learn about Illinois' first confirmed records of Long-tailed Jaeger, and the interesting behaviors this bird exhibited for many observers.
Issue #4 - This issue features the 2001 spring bird count as well as the status of jaegers in Illinois.
Volume 11 (2002)
Issue #1 - Our tenth anniversary issue features articles on Illinois' first reported Scissor-tailed Flycatcher nest as well as an Arctic Tern attempt at breeding with a Common Tern and the first documented record of nesting Ring-billed Gulls on a rooftop in Illinos.
Issue #2 - White-throated Sparrows have been documented for the first time as nesting in Illinois. Plus, read about the new hawk watch at Illinois Beach State Park.
Issue #3 - Illinois volunteers work to save habitat and document avian population trends, an American Robin nests in Chicago in December, and the Illinois 2001 Christmas Bird Counts.
Issue #4 - Report on Chicagoland's first spring migration bird banding station, the population decline of the Red-headed Wodpecker in Wisconsin and Illinois, and a pair of Cinnamon Teal in Clinton County.
Volume 12 (2003)
Issue #1 - Whooping Cranes over Illinois, the status of the Common Tern in Illinois, and introducing children to birding.
Issue #2 - An estimate of shorebird numbers in Illinois, the status of the Whimbrel in the Middlewestern prairie region, and the status of the Piping Plover on the Great Lakes. Also, a guide to birding sod fields.
Issue #3 - Winter bird population changes during a 38-year period in an urbanizing region, Illinois' first Hermit Warbler, the 2002/2003 Illinois Christmas Bird Count, and a bird finding guide to the Paul Douglas Forest Preserve.
Issue #4 - The effect of temperature and food choice of birds at feeders in northeastern Illinois, Burrowing Owl in Chaimpaign County, and the 2003 Illinois Spring Bird Count.
Volume 13 (2004)
Issue #1 - The potential impact of climate change on the summer distribution of Illinois' nongame birds, first Illinois record of Roseate Spoonbill, Eurasian Collared-Doves in a River Forest backyard, and nesting Lark Sparrows in DuPage County.
Issue #2 - This issue features the status of wintering Bald Eagles in central
Illinois, a wonderful photo gallery of shorebirds and an account of the
first Illinois and second inland North American record of Black-tailed Gull.
Issue #3 - Features Extreme birding by Kelly McKay, the 20023/2004 Christmas Bird Count and photos from the Gull Frolic and the Rough-legged Hawk invasion.
Issue #4 - Mottled Duck at Lake Springfield, first state record by H. Davd Bohlen, plus
an article about Audubon's Washington Eagle -- did it really exist --
written by Scott Maruna.
Volume 14 (2005)
Issue #1 - Features Monk Parakeets in Illinois - their history, the present and the future,
written by Walter Marcisz and stories about interesting nesting
occurrences in the state last summer.
Issue #2 - Nesting Swainson's Hawks in Illinois, observations of a Hairy Woodpecker pair in a River Forest backyard, and a variety of rarities from around the state.
Issue #3 - The Illinois prairie-chicken recovery plan, hawkwatching at Illinois Beach State Park, the Kane County Lark Bunting, and the 2004/2005 Christmas Bird Count. Corrected charts for the article on hawkwatching at Illinois Beach State Park can be found here.
Issue #4 - Illinois' important bird areas, Illinois' first Fork-tailed Flycatcher, and the statewide Spring Bird Count.
Volume 15 (2006)
Issue #1 - Arrival dates and recapture patterns of spring migrant songbirds in northeasten Illinois, Bald Eagles attempting to nest in Kane County, and Field Notes for the 2005 breeding season.
Issue #2 - First state record of Inca Dove, a Sooty Tern specimen from Illinois, Lost Mound Unit of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, and the twelth report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee.
Issue #3 - The love song of Catharus guttatus, a juvenile Hermit Thrush in Chicago, the 1978 Chicago Ross's Gull, a photo essay of Bald Eagles in winter, the 2005/2006 Illinois Christmas Bird Count, and Field Notes for the 2005/2006 winter season.
Issue #4 - A second state record of MacGillivray's Warbler in Kane County, a Yellow-throated Warbler at a Vermilion County feeder, reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois, and the 2006 Illinois spring bird count.
Volume 16 (2007)
Issue #1 - Trumpeter Swans in Illinois, observations of nesting Red-headed Woodpeckers in Cook County, reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois, and the 2006 breeding season.
Issue #2 - Late Chimney Swifts, Swainson's Hawks at the Illinois Beach State Park Hawkwatch, In Memorium, the Thirteenth report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee, and more.
Issue #3 - A Barnacle Goose in LaSalle County, little-known birding spots in Jackson County, Black-headed Gull at Montrose, the 2006/2007 Christmas bird count, and Field Notes for the 2006/2007 winter season.
Issue #4 - Census methods to better understand the nightly passage of songbird migrants through the Chicago region during May, a Summer Tanager visits a jelly feeder in DuPage County, the 2007 Illinois Statewide Spring Bird count, and Field Notes for the 2007 spring migration season.
Volume 17 (2008)
Issue #1 - On the hunt for Sprague's Pipit, IOS research grants, reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois, and the 2007 breeding season field notes.
Issue #2 - The Plover Project, the Fourteenth Report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee, reflections on backyard birding throughout Illinois, and Field Notes for the 2007 fall migration.
Issue #3 - Carlyle Lake gulls, a potential "Kamchatka" Mew Gull, sea ducks in central Illinois, the 2007/2008 Illinois Christmas Bird Count, 2007/2008 winter field notes, and more.
Issue #4 - Illinois breeding bird population trends, a bird finding guide to Boone County, the 2008 Illinois Spring Bird Count, and Field Notes for the 2008 spring migration season.
Volume 18 (2009)
Issue #1 - Birdnotes from a bygone era, Mississippi Kites nesting in Rockford, and field notes for the 2008 breeding season.
Issue #2 - IOS research grant awards, changes to the list of threatened and endangered Illinois birds, Yellow-breasted Chat study, backyard birding throughout Illinois, and the 2008 fall migration field notes.
Issue #3 - Winter gull identification challenges, the fifteenth report of the Illinois Ornithological Records Committee, the 2008/2009 CBC season, remembering Laurence Binford and L. Barrie Hunt, and field notes for the 2008/2009 winter season.
Issue #4 - Sandhill Crane colt survival in northeastern Illinois, aggressive interaction between a Sora and Virginia Rail during spring migration, the 2009 Illinois Statewide Spring Bird Count, and field notes for the 2009 spring migration.
Volume 19 (2010)
Issue #1 - Current Issue - Potential nesting Swainson's Warbler in southern Illinois, first documented nesting record for Anhinga in Illinois, Northern Rough-winged Swallow builds nest in air-conditioning ducts, and more. See the Meadowlark Journal Information page on this Web site for details about this issue.
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