Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Swainson's Warbler - 2021-35
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One of the most frequent questions to the Records Commitee is simply "How many records of XXX have been accepted?" The answer to that is easy to see in this report. Until older (pre-2000) records have all been entered, you may need to check this PDF of older records to get a complete count. Select a species to get started and then explore some of the other reports in the menu bar.

12 total accepted records; current status is Casual
Not accepted records are shown in red. The camera icon denotes photos and the news icon provides further details on the record.

RecordSpeciesDatesLocationCountyDocs  
1981-LM Little Blue Heron20 Jul 1933Wapello LakeDavis1
1981-LN Little Blue Heron4 Aug 1934West Okoboji LakeDickinson1
1981-LP Little Blue HeronE Sep 1934Green BayLee1
1981-LQ Little Blue Heron31 Jul 1938north of LansingAllamakee1
1981-LR Little Blue Heron4 Aug 1938McGregorClayton1
1981-LS Little Blue Heron22 - 27 Jul 1954Lake OdessaLouisa1
1981-LT Little Blue Heron6 Apr 1971north of Harper's FerryAllamakee1
2018-22 Little Blue Heron20 May 2018Lake Macbride South Arm - 200th StJohnson1
2018-29 Little Blue Heron9 Aug 2018Sandpiper Rec. Area, Saylorville Lake, Polk Co. IAPolk2
2018-44 Little Blue Heron23 Apr 2018Ada Hayden ParkStory1
2018-46 Little Blue Heron5 Jul 2018Ada Hayden ParkStory1
2018-47 Little Blue Heron21 Jul 2018Nahant MarshScott1
2020-37 Little Blue Heron21 Aug 2020Wickiup Hill Learning CenterLinn2
2021-36 Little Blue Heron23 May 2021Little Storm LakeBuena Vista1
2021-42 Little Blue Heron17 Jul 2021Maskunky MarshMahaska5
2022-24 Little Blue Heron3 May 2022DNR PrairieDickinson1
2022-41 Little Blue Heron17 Jul 2022Big Creek WMA NWPolk2