Birds
Lake Katherine is a popular location for birders who often include their reports on IBET (Illinois Birders Exchanging Thoughts). The following is a selection of birds that have been reported here at Lake Katherine:
- American-Bittern
- American-Coot
- American-Crow
- American-Goldfinch
- American-Kestrel
- American-Robin
- American-White-Pelican
- American-Wigeon
- American-Woodcock
- Bald-Eagle
- Bank-Swallow
- Barn-Swallow
- Belted-Kingfisher
- Black-Capped-Chickadee
- Black-Crowned-Night-Heron
- Blue-Jay
- Blue-Winged-Teal
- Blue-Winged-Warbler
- Brown-Creeper
- Brown-Headed-Cowbird
- Brown-Thrasher
- Bufflehead
- Canada-Goose
- Canvasback
- Caspian-Tern
- Cedar-Waxwing
- Chestnut-Sided-Warbler
- Common-Goldeneye
- Common-Grackle
- Common-Loon
- Common-Moorhen
- Common-Nighthawk
- Common-Snipe
- Common-Tern
- Cooper's-Hawk
- Dark-Eyed-Junco
- Double-Crested-Cormorant
- Downy-Woodpecker
- Eastern-Kingbird
- Eastern-Screech-Owl
- Eastern-Wood-Pewee
- European-Starling
- Gadwall
- Golden-Crowned-Kinglet
- Gray-Catbird
- Great-Blue-Heron
- Great-Horned-Owl
- Greater-Scaup
- Green-Winged-Teal
- Hairy-Woodpecker
- Harlequin
- Herring-Gull
- Indigo-Bunting
- Killdeer
- Lesser-Scaup
- Mallard
- Marsh-Wren
- Mourning-Dove
- Mute-Swan
- Nashville-Warbler
- Northern-Cardinal
- Northern-Flicker
- Northern-Pintail
- Northern-Shoveler
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Palm-Warbler
- Pied-Billed-Grebe
- Red-Breasted-Nuthatch
- Red-Shouldered-Hawk
- Red-Winged-Blackbird
- Ring-Billed-Gull
- Ring-Necked-Duck
- Rock-Dove
- Ruby-Crowned-Kinglet
- Ruby-Throated-Hummingbird
- Sandhill-Crane
- Scarlet-Tanager
- Sora
- Spotted-Sandpiper
- Trumpeter-Swan
- Turkey-Vulture
- Whip-poor-will
- White-Breasted-Nuthatch
- White-Eyed-Vireo
- Willow-Flycatcher
- Winter-Wren
- Wood-Duck
- Yellow-Rumped-Warbler
- Yellow-Warbler