Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Rufous Hummingbird - 2020-35
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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 Accidental
Not accepted records are shown in red. The camera icon denotes photos and the news icon provides further details on the record.

RecordSpeciesDatesLocationCountyDocs  
2000-14 Snowy Plover6 May 2000Sedan Bottoms WMAAppanoose2
2004-20 Snowy Plover8 May 2004Hawkeye WAJohnson3
2005-61 Snowy Plover22 Aug 2005L. RathbunAppanoose1
2006-25 Snowy Plover10 May 2006Rathbun Res.Appanoose2
2007-26 Snowy Plover2 May 2007Lake RathbunAppanoose2
2008-28 Snowy Plover3 September 2008Hawkeye WAJohnson1
2009-08 Snowy Plover24 April 2009Dairy PondWoodbury1
2009-09 Snowy Plover25 - 26 April 2009Saylorville Res.Polk4
2011-21 Snowy Plover22 - 23 May 2011Riverton WAFremont1
2016-06 Snowy Plover26 Apr 201641.781512, -93.764322Polk2
2016-17 Snowy Plover30 May 2016Pleasant Creek RABenton2
2020-32 Snowy Plover27 Jun - 9 Jul 2020Red Rock ReservoirMarion1
2022-09 Snowy Plover26 Apr 20222678 Dallas Ave, Salix, IA 51052Woodbury1