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Illinois Ornithology

A finding aid for Illinois Ornithology resources, historical and current, including publications of the Illinois Natural History Survey.

Black and white book cover, featuring three birds      Black and white book cover, featuring birds on a telephone wire      Black and white book cover with a bird feeding a baby bird      Black and white book cover with a large bird in flight      Black and white book cover with a bird standing on a nest      Black and white book cover of a bird standing on a nest, looking away from it      Black and white book cover of a bird standing on a branch 

Ornithologists Richard Graber (Illinois Natural History Survey) and Jean W. Graber (Department of Animal Science) during the 1970s and 1980s, published a series of Illinois Natural History Survey Biological Notes on Illinois birds by family.  The Grabers also performed a census of Illinois bird populations 1956-1958 to update the survey performed by researchers at the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 1906-1909.  This work was published as Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin volume 28 no. 3 in 1963.   Photographs from their survey work and their papers are held in the University Archives. 

Illinois Birds Series online

Graber Materials in the University Archives