Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Green-tailed Towhee - 2012-25
© Jon Bahrenfus

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.

18 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-EX Painted Bunting30 May 1956Fort Defiance S. P.Emmet1
1987-06 Painted Bunting6 Jan 1987BettendorfScott2
2001-13 Painted Bunting12 May 2001Arney Bend W.A.Marshall1
2011-AA Painted Bunting16 Jun 2005North of Denison, IowaCrawford1
2006-22 Painted Bunting7-28 May 2006Brookside P., AmesStory10
2007-19 Painted Bunting8 May - 21 Jul 2007Brookside Park, AmesStory2
2012-AA Painted Bunting1 May 2007ChesterHoward1
2008-08 Painted Bunting12-25 May 2008Brookside Park, AmesStory2
2011-15 Painted Bunting12 May 2011Dunbar SloughGreene2
2013-14 Painted Bunting9 May 2013My house,601 Church St. ShenandoahPage1
2014-13 Painted Bunting5-6 May 2014Saint CharlesMadison1
2015-17 Painted Bunting7 Jun 20153226 Dows Williams Road, Williams, Iowa 50271Wright1
2018-14 Painted Bunting9 May 20182046 roundtable road, sergeant BluffWoodbury1
2018-24 Painted Bunting8 Aug 2018ada hayden heritage parkStory7
2019-20 Painted Bunting13 Jun 2019BackyardPlymouth1
2020-15 Painted Bunting2 May 20201025 Penkridge Dr, Iowa City, Iowa 52246Johnson3
2022-20 Painted Bunting22 Apr 2022OskaloosaMahaska1
2022-23 Painted Bunting30 Apr 2022BettendorfScott1
2022-38 Painted Bunting16 Jun 2022146th at Red Rock LakeMarion1
2023-09 Painted Bunting11 Jul 2023Private residence - "fide" Clayton Will for Calvin LangschwagerWoodbury1