ILLINOIS PROTECTED SPECIES AND APPROVED AQUATIC SPECIES

PROTECTED SPECIES LIST (1/1/15)

Game Birds:

• Ruffed and sharp-tailed grouse
  
• Northern bobwhite
  
• Gray partridge
  
• Chukar
  
• Ring-necked pheasant
  
• Greater prairie chicken
  
• Wild turkey
  

Migratory Game Birds:

• Waterfowl (Anatidae) - brant, ducks, geese, and swans
  
• Wild families Rallidae, Scolopacidae, Columbidae, and Corvidae legal to hunt
  

Non-Game Birds:

• Loons (Gaviidae)
  
• Grebes (Podicipedidae)
  
• Pelicans (Pelecanidae)
  
• Gannets (Sulidae)
  
• Cormorants (Phalacrocoracidae)
  
• Anhingas (Anhingidae)
  
• Frigatebirds (Fregatidae)
  
• Herons, bitterns and egrets (Ardeidae)
  
• Ibises and spoonbills (Threskiornithidae)
  
• Storks (Ciconiidae)
  
• Vultures (Cathartidae)
  
• Kites, hawks, ospreys, and eagles (Accipitridae)
  
• Falcons, merlins, and kestrels (Falconidae)
  
• Rails, gallinules, and moorhens (Rallidae) – illegal to take
  
• Cranes (Gruidae)
  
• Shorebirds (Charadriidae, Scolopacidae, and Recurvirostridae) – illegal to hunt
  
• Gulls, terns, jaegers, skimmers, and kittiwakes (Laridae)
  
• Dovekies and murrelets (Alcidae)
  
• Doves and pigeons (Columbidae) – illegal to hunt
  
• Cuckoos and anis (Cuculidae)
  
• Owls (Tytonidae and Strigidae)
  
• Whip-poor-wills, chuck-will's-widows, and nighthawks (Caprimulgidae)
  
• Swifts (Apodidae)
  
• Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
  
• Kingfishers (Alcedinidae)
  
• Woodpeckers, flickers, and sapsuckers (Picidae)
  
• Kingbirds, pewees, phoebes, and flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
  
• Shrikes (Laniidae)
  
• Vireos (Vireonidae)
  
• Magpies, ravens, and jays (Corvidae)
  
• Larks (Alaudidae)
  
• Swallows and martins (Hirundinidae)
  
• Chickadees and titmice (Paridae)
  
• Nuthatches (Sittidae)
  
• Creepers (Certhiidae)
  
• Wrens (Troglodytidae)
  
• Kinglets (Regulidae)
  
• Gnatcatchers (Sylviidae)
  
• Robins, bluebirds, solitaires, veerys, and thrushes (Turdidae)
  
• Mockingbirds, catbirds, and thrashers (Mimidae)
  
• Pipits (Motacillidae)
  
• Waxwings (Bombycillidae)
  
• Warblers, parulas, redstarts, ovenbirds, waterthrushes, yellowthroats, and chats (Parulidae)
  
• Tanagers (Thraupidae)
  
• Towhees, longspurs, sparrows, buntings, and juncos (Emberizidae)
  
• Dickcissels, cardinals, buntings, and grosbeaks (Cardinalidae)
  
• Blackbirds, meadowlarks, bobolinks, grackles, cowbirds, and orioles (Icteridae)
  
• Grosbeaks, finches, crossbills, redpolls, and siskins (Fringillidae)
  

Game Mammals:

• Eastern cottontail and swamp rabbit
  
• white-tailed deer
  
• Fox and gray squirrel
  
• Woodchuck 
  

Fur-bearing Mammals:

• Muskrat
  
• American beaver
  
• Raccoon
  
• Virginia opossum
  
• Least and long-tailed weasels
  
• Mink
  
• North American river otter
  
• Striped skunk
  
• American badger
  
• Red and gray fox
  
• Coyote
  
• Bobcat
  

Other Protected Mammals:

• Southern flying squirrel
  
• Red squirrel
  
• Eastern woodrat
  
• Golden mouse
  
• Marsh rice rat
  
• Franklin's ground squirrel
  
• Bats (Vespertilionidae)
  
• Gray wolf
  
• American black bear
  
• Cougar
  

APPROVED AQUATIC LIFE SPECIES

Amphipods:

• Pontoporeia hoyi
  
• Hyalella Azteca
  
• Bactrurus brachycaudus
  
• Bactrurus mucronatus
  
• Crangonyx forbesi
  
• Crangonyx gracilis
  
• Crangonyx minor
  
• Crangonyx pseudogracilis
  
• Crangonyx richmondensis
  
• Gammarus fasciatus
  
• Gammarus minus
  
• Gammarus pseudolimnaeus
  
• Gammarus troglophilus
  
• Synurella bifurca
  
• Synurella dentata
  

Isopods:

• Asellus intermedius
  
• Caecidotea beattyi
  
• Caecidotea bicrenate
  
• Caecidotea brevicauda
  
• Caecidotea forbesi
  
• Caecidotea intermedius
  
• Caecidotea kendeighi
  
• Caecidotea packardi
  
• Caecidotea stygia
  

Crustaceans (rest):

• Glass shrimp
  
• Giant Malaysian prawn
  
• Crayfish:  White river, papershell, Northern, devil
  

Mussels:

• Three-ridge
  
• Wabash Pigtoe
  
• Monkeyface
  
• Wartyback
  
• Pimpleback
  
• Mapleleaf
  
• Buckhorn
  
• Washboard
  
• Elktoe
  
• Common Floater
  
• Paper Pondshell
  
• Flat Floater
  
• Cylindrical Papershell
  
• Rock Pocketbook
  
• White Heelsplitter
  
• Fluted Shell
  
• Squawfoot
  
• Mucket
  
• Fatmucket
  
• Yellow Sandshell
  
• Plain Pocketbook
  
• Fragile Papershell
  
• Common Pondmussel
  
• Hickorynut
  
• Creek Heelsplitter
  
• Pink Heelsplitter
  
• Pink Papershell
  
• Lilliput
  
• Fawnsfoot
  
• Deertoe
  
• Three-horned Wartyback
  
• Long Fingernail Clam
  
• Striated Fingernail Clam
  
• Pondhorn Mussel
  

Snails:   

• Valvata: two-ridge, purplecap, mossy
  
• Mystery snail: banded, rotund, olive
  
• Campeloma: ponderous, pointed
  
• Furrowed lioplax
  
• Faucet snail
  
• Probythinella lacustris
  
• Pebblesnail: sandbar, coldwater
  
• Midland siltsnail
  
• Moss pyrg
  
• Amnicola: Hoosier, mud
  
• Lake duskysnail
  
• Walker: brown, slender
  
• Elmia costifera
  
• River snail: mainstream, armigerous
  
• Rocksnail: varicose, Shawnee
  
• Hornsnail: sharp (ssp. acuta, hinkleyi, lewisi), rugged, channeled (ssp. caniculatum, undulatum)
  
• Spindle lymnaea
  
• Fossaria (ssp. dalli, exigua, obrussa, parva, rustica, tazewelliana)
  
• Pond snail: great (ssp. appressa), marsh, flat-whorled, calabash, coldwater
  
• American ribbed fluke snail
  
• Wrinkled marshsnail
  
• Physa: tadpole, pewter (ssp. halei, pomila), ashy (ssp. integra)
  
• Bladder snail (Physella virgata anatina)
  
• Lance aplexa morph
  
• Flexed gyro
  
• Sprite: bugle, Sampson
  
• Rams-horn: Bellmouth (ssp. campanulate), marsh, marsh (ssp. trivolvis), druid
  
• Rhoclacmea hinkleyi
  
• Ferrisia fragilis
  
• Oblong ancylid
  
• Lavevapex diaphanous
  

Fish:

• Chestnut, silver and American brook lampreys
  
• Shovelnose sturgeon
  
• Paddlefish
  
• Gar: spotted, longnose and shortnose
  
• Bowfin
  
• American eel
  
• Alabama shad
  
• Skipjack herring
  
• Alewife
  
• Gizzard and threadfin shad
  
• Goldeye and mooneye
  
• Bloater
  
• Round whitefish
  
• Trout: brook, lake, brown, and rainbow (special requirements)
  
• Salmon: Coho and chinook (special requirements)
  
• Rainbow smelt
  
• Central mudminnow
  
• Grass pickerel
  
• Northern pike
  
• Muskellunge and tiger muskellunge
  
• Goldfish
  
• Common carp
  
• Shiner: bigmouth, common, emerald, ghost, golden, mimic, red, redfin, ribbon, river, rosyface, sand, silverband, spotfin, spottail, steelcolor and striped
  
• Chub: creek, lake, hornyhead, speckled and silver
  
• Dace: blacknose, longnose and Southern redbelly
  
• Minnow: bluntnose, bullhead, fathead, silverjaw, silvery and suckermouth
  
• Central stoneroller