Plant & Wildlife Identification
Many of the field guides presented below were created by the Field Museum and are specific to the Chicago region. Click here to explore field guides for regions around the world!
BIRDS
The following links will take you to albums created by Jean Strong-Hurrle. Browse through the photographs and accompanying names to identify native wildflowers found in Kankakee County.
NATIVE WILDFLOWERS
OTHER PLANTS
INSECTS & ARACHNIDS
Arachnids
AQUATIC SPECIES
Macroinvertebrates
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
Other Amphibians
Wildflowers
Flora of the Chicago Region: A Floristic and Ecological Synthesis
by Gerould Wilhelm & Laura Rericha
A Peterson Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America
by Roger Tory Peterson & Margaret McKenny
Insects
Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
by Eric R. Eaton & Kenn Kaufman
Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America
by Jim P. Brock & Kenn Kaufman
Butterflies of Illinois: A Field Guide
by Michael Jeffords, Susan Post, and James Winker
Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America
by David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie
Birds
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
by David Allen Sibley
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America
by Roger Peterson
Mammals
Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America
by Fiona Reid
Fish
Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes
by Lawrence Page and Brooks Burr
BOOKS & FIELD GUIDES
OUTDOOR ILLINOIS: WILDLIFE JOURNAL
Click here to read Outdoor Illinois!
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program and the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGGREC) to bring back Outdoor Illinois! This online journal contains articles on Wildlife, People, Land, Research, and Recreation.
To visit other websites regarding wildlife in Illinois, please visit the Living with Wildlife in Illinois (https://www.wildlifeillinois.org/) and the White-tailed Deer: Illinois websites (https://deer.wildlifeillinois.org/).
Welcome to the November 1, 2019 edition of the online magazine of OutdoorIllinois Wildlife Journal, featuring timely, seasonally based stories about the Prairie State's wildlife resources.
Among the several additional stories featured this quarter are articles summarizing some recent wildlife research news, the Illinois wood duck banding program, the role of an urban wildlife biologist, and more.
A MESSAGE FROM DIRECTOR CHRIS YOUNG
