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This report shows actions taken by the Iowa Records Committee since 2000. It is a dynamic report and changes as actions are completed. Submitters may request committee comments from the secretary if they have not yet been received. (Species new to the state checklist are indicated in red.) This icon takes you to report details including photos when available.

Final Result Categories

NA - Not accepted

A-S - Accepted Specimen

A-P - Accepted Photograph

A-R - Accepted Recording

A-D - Accepted Documentation

2021  33 (97.1 %) of 34 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 25) (A-R: 2) (A-D: 6)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2021-01	Evening Grosbeak		9 Jan 2021	8771 Route 52 S	Dubuque	A-P
2021-02	Gyrfalcon		9 Jan 2021	2526 Esther Ave, Schaller, Iowa	Sac	A-P
2021-03	Lesser Goldfinch		10 Jan 2021	West Des Moines, 29th St. between Locust St. and Boulder Dr.	Polk	A-P
2021-04	Evening Grosbeak		18 Jan 2021	Saylorville Reservoir - Jester Park 1. 41°47'01.1"N 93°47'19.0"W	Polk	A-R
2021-05	California Gull		18 Jan 2021	Fort Madison	Lee	A-P
2021-06	Great Black-backed Gull		20 Feb 2021	Mississippi River Pool 14	Scott	A-P
2021-07	Fish Crow		11 Mar 2021	Saylorville Reservoir, Oak Grove	Polk	A-R
2021-08	Great Black-backed Gull		11 Mar 2021	Red Rock Reservoir--North Overlook Recreation Area	Marion	A-P
2021-09	Eurasian Wigeon		14 Mar 2021	Lock and dam 14	Scott	A-P
2021-10	Evening Grosbeak		20 Mar 2021	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2021-11	Eurasian Wigeon		27 Mar 2021	Markham's Pond Wildlife Area	Mitchell	A-D
2021-12	Brant		23 Apr 2021	Pintail Wetlands	Hardin	A-P
2021-13	Little Gull		24 Apr 2021	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2021-14	Glossy Ibis		25 Apr 2021	Ventura Marsh	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2021-15	Little Gull		26 Apr 2021	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2021-16	Great Black-backed Gull		6 Mar 2021	16th Street Retention Basin	Dubuque	A-P
2021-18	California Gull		27 Mar 2021	Lake Manawa	Pottawattamie	A-D
2021-19	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		27 Apr 2021	Hawkeye WMA	Johnson	A-P
2021-20	Glossy Ibis		30 Apr 2021	New Lake	Woodbury	A-P
2021-21	Glossy Ibis		30 Apr 2021	Trumbull Lake, Iowa	Clay	A-P
2021-22	King Rail		1 May 2021	Deere Dike	Dubuque	A-P
2021-23	California Gull		2 May 2021	Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2021-24	Bullock's Oriole		4 May 2021	west of Riceville	Mitchell	A-P
2021-25	Bullock's Oriole		8 May 2021	3674 Rimrock Dr NE, Cedar Rapids	Linn	A-P
2021-26	Western Tanager		9 May 2021	Johnston yard	Polk	A-D
2021-27	Fish Crow		11 May 2021	Starr's Cave and Preserve	Des Moines	A-D
2021-28	Glossy Ibis		11 May 2021	Little Storm Lake	Buena Vista	A-P
2021-29	Glossy Ibis		12 May 2021	McHugh Wetland	Boone	A-P
2021-30	Glossy Ibis		12 May 2021	Maskunky Marsh	Mahaska	A-P
2021-31	Prairie Warbler		13 May 2021	Shimek SF - Croton Unit	Lee	A-P
2021-33	Black-headed Grosbeak		16 May 2021	Bacon Creek Park	Woodbury	NA
2021-34	Glossy Ibis		17 May 2021	Sandhill Lake	Woodbury	A-P
2021-35	Swainson's Warbler		20 May 2021	East River Valley Park	Story	A-P
2021-36	Little Blue Heron		23 May 2021	Little Storm Lake	Buena Vista	A-P

2020  64 (83.1 %) of 77 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 46) (A-R: 3) (A-D: 15)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2020-01	Great Black-backed Gull		5 Jan 2020	Red Rock Reservoir, old bridge area--Hwy 14/G28 intersection	Marion	A-P
2020-02	Mountain Bluebird		5 Jan 2020	Hitchcock Nature Center	Pottawattamie	A-P
2020-03	Varied Thrush		9 Jan 2020	Mental Health Institute Independence Iowa	Buchanan	A-P
2020-04	Varied Thrush		1 Feb 2020	Bright Residence	Butler	A-P
2020-05	European Goldfinch		6 Mar 2020	Conesville WMA	Louisa	NA
2020-06	Great Black-backed Gull		22 Mar 2020	Little Storm Lake	Buena Vista	A-P
2020-07	Ruff		11 Apr 2020	Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2020-08	European Goldfinch		14 Apr 2020	316 Hickory LN, Otley, IA 50214	Marion	NA
2020-09	Glossy Ibis		14 Apr 2020	Brower Lake	Woodbury	A-P
2020-10	Glossy Ibis		18 Apr 2020	B Avenue at Hunter Access, Dunbar Slough, Greene Co. Iowa41.9484187028641,-94.6110130442531	Greene	A-P
2020-11	Glossy Ibis		19 Apr 2020	Trumbull Lake	Clay	A-D
2020-12	Glossy Ibis		26 Apr 2020	Kiowa Marsh	Sac	A-P
2020-13	Lazuli Bunting		28 Apr 2020	218 North St., Yale Iowa	Guthrie	A-P
2020-14	Prairie Warbler		1 May 2020	Shimek State Forest, Croton West Unit	Lee	A-P
2020-15	Painted Bunting		2 May 2020	1025 Penkridge Dr, Iowa City, Iowa 52246	Johnson	A-P
2020-16	Fish Crow		4 May 2020	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-R
2020-17	Sage Thrasher		4 May 2020	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2020-18	Western Tanager		7 May 2020	Saylorville Visitor Center	Polk	A-D
2020-19	Glossy Ibis		7 May 2020	N. E. Corner of Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2020-20	Western Tanager		10 May 2020	48 Lakeview Court Mason City	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2020-21	Rufous Hummingbird		19 May 2020	2350 X Ave., Perry IA	Greene	NA
2020-21G	Selasphorus sp.		19 May 2020	Perry	Greene	A-D
2020-22	Great Black-backed Gull		23 May 2020	Deere Dike	Dubuque	A-P
2020-23	Glossy Ibis		24 May 2020	Ada Hayden Park	Story	A-D
2020-24	Black-chinned Hummingbird		31 May 2020	Riverside	Washington	NA
2020-25	Western Tanager		28 Apr 2020	Bacon Creek Park	Woodbury	A-D
2020-26	Burrowing Owl		1 May 2020	3.5 miles west of Ida Grove	Ida	A-P
2020-27	Mottled Duck		6 Jun 2020	near Bartlett	Fremont	A-P
2020-28	Red Phalarope		7 Jun 2020	Eagle Lake	Hancock	A-P
2020-29	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		12 Jun 2020	15 West Lake Village, Lake Manawa, Council Bluffs, Iowa	Pottawattamie	A-P
2020-30	Fish Crow		15 Jun 2020	Sandpiper Rec. Area, Saylorville Lake beach	Polk	A-P
2020-31	Fish Crow		26 Jun 2020	my yard, Polk City	Polk	A-R
2020-32	Snowy Plover		27 Jun - 9 Jul 2020	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2020-33	Ruff		27 Jul 2020	Saylorville Lake mud flats off Jester Park campgrounds #3 and #4	Polk	NA
2020-34	Mottled Duck		28 Jul 2020	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2020-35	Rufous Hummingbird		30 Jul 2020	2350 X Ave., Perry IA	Greene	A-P
2020-36	Roseate Spoonbill		4 Aug 2020	Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2020-37	Little Blue Heron		21 Aug 2020	Wickiup Hill Learning Center	Linn	A-P
2020-38	Lesser Goldfinch		22 Aug 2020	509 Cedar Street	Buchanan	NA
2020-39	California Gull		9 Jun 2020	Pool 19	Lee	A-D
2020-40	Little Gull		30 Aug 2020	Union Slough NWR	Kossuth	A-P
2020-41	Little Gull		6 Sep 2020	Little Swan Lake, Dickenson County west side	Dickinson	A-P
2020-42	Fish Crow		30 Aug - 6 Sep 2020	Sandpiper Rec. Area, Between SRA and the Marina	Polk	A-R
2020-43	Western Tanager		6 Sep 2020	Johnston	Polk	A-D
2020-44	McCown's Longspur		7 Sep 2020	Mount Auburn dog farm	Benton	NA
2020-45	Little Gull		19 Sep 2020	Scales Point - Coralville Reservoir	Johnson	A-P
2020-46	Little Gull		2 Oct 2020	Sugar Bottom WA	Johnson	A-P
2020-47	Little Gull		11 Oct 2020	Pool 15, in Iowa waters, viewed from Butterworth Parkway Moline Illinois	Scott	A-D
2020-48	Common Raven		28 Sep 2020	Palisades Park	Winneshiek	A-D
2020-49	Canada Jay		3 Oct 2020	Donahue,Ia. 102 ave. private property	Scott	NA
2020-50	Ferruginous Hawk		8 Oct 2020	Near Waterloo Airport	Black Hawk	NA
2020-51	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		12 Oct 2020	Grand Mound Sewage Ponds	Clinton	A-P
2020-52	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		31 Oct 2020	Deere Dike	Dubuque	A-P
2020-53	Harlequin Duck		16 Oct 2020	Saylorville Reservoir--main lake off the dam	Polk	A-D
2020-54	Monk Parakeet		10 Oct - 16 Oct 2020	Walnut Creek Trail	Polk	NA
2020-55	Great Black-backed Gull		28 Oct 2020	Lock & Dam 15	Scott	A-P
2020-56	Red Phalarope		31 Oct - 7 Nov 2020	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2020-57	Evening Grosbeak		1 Nov 2020	Near Hartman Preserve	Black Hawk	A-P
2020-58	Evening Grosbeak		1,2 Nov 2020	Home feeders (Private location)	Des Moines	A-P
2020-59	Evening Grosbeak		9, 10 Nov 2020	115 LAKEVIEW DRIVE, MASON CITY, IWOA	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2020-60	Evening Grosbeak		17 Nov 2020	3524 Cumberland Ridge Rd. NE, North Liberty, IA 52317-9328	Johnson	A-P
2020-61	Lesser Goldfinch		22 Nov 2020	Residence near Crapo Park Burlington	Des Moines	A-P
2020-62	Evening Grosbeak		30 Oct 2020	Port Louisa NWR	Louisa	A-P
2020-63	White Ibis		8 Aug 2020	Hawkeye WMA	Johnson	A-P
2020-64	Red Knot		5 Sep 2020	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2020-65	Gyrfalcon		27 Nov 2020	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2020-66	Yellow-billed Loon		14 Dec 2020	Big Creek Lake	Polk	A-P
2020-67	Barrow's Goldeneye		15 Dec 2020	Slater wastewater treatment ponds	Story	A-P
2020-68	Osprey		19 Dec 2020	Sioux City	Woodbury	NA
2020-69	Broad-winged Hawk		19 Dec 2020	Sioux City	Woodbury	NA
2020-70	California Gull		20 Dec 2020	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2020-71	Varied Thrush		26 Dec 2020	North side of Cardinal Marsh	Winneshiek	A-P
2020-AA	Burrowing Owl		5 Oct 1982	Sioux Honey Association plant	Woodbury	A-D
2020-AB	Burrowing Owl		17 Apr 1988	Vesterheim	Plymouth	A-D
2020-AC	Great Black-backed Gull		23 Mar 2006	Des Moines River off Cottonwood Recreation Area	Polk	A-D
2020-AD	Prairie Warbler		30 May 2008	Bacon Creek Park	Woodbury	A-D
2020-AE	Yellow-billed Loon		11 May 2013	Martin Lake, Waterloo, A	Black Hawk	NA

2019  35 (85.4 %) of 41 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 28) (A-R: 1) (A-D: 6)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2019-01	Great Gray Owl		18 Jan 2019	Council Bluffs	Pottawattamie	NA
2019-02	Varied Thrush		23 Feb 2019	251 Four Seasons Dr., Waterloo, IA 50701	Black Hawk	A-P
2019-03	California Gull		21 Mar 2019	Bob Shetler RA ponds below Saylorville dam	Polk	A-P
2019-04	Whooping Crane		7 Apr 2019	near Joyce on I35	Worth	NA
2019-05	Glossy Ibis		5 May 2019	500 yds east of the NE corner of Errington Marsh	Polk	A-P
2019-06	Western Tanager		5 May 2019	21429 620th Nevada	Story	A-P
2019-07	Glossy Ibis		7 May 2019	Cone Marsh WMA	Louisa	A-P
2019-08	Prairie Warbler		13 May 2019	Croton Unit, Shimek State Forest	Lee	A-P
2019-09	Western Tanager		18 May 2019	Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge, near base of stairs along Loop trail below Visitor's Center	Louisa	A-D
2019-10	White-tailed Kite		19 May 2019	Saveraid family property south of Winterset	Madison	A-P
2019-11	Prairie Warbler		22 May 2019	Trestle Trail, NW Des Moines	Polk	A-D
2019-12	California Gull		29 May 2019	Dickinson County landfill	Dickinson	A-D
2019-13	Prairie Warbler		19 May 2019	FDR Park	Dubuque	A-P
2019-14	Fish Crow		11 May 2019	below Saylorville Dam	Polk	A-D
2019-15	Brown Pelican		25 May 2019	Red Rock Reservoir spill way	Marion	A-P
2019-16	Black-billed Magpie		4 Jun 2019	Big Creek State Park	Polk	NA
2019-17	Glossy Ibis		8 Jun 2019	1208 Amana Road	Johnson	A-P
2019-18	Red Knot		28 Jul 2019	Saylorville Reservoir, Big Creek spillway area	Polk	A-D
2019-19	Heermann's Gull		28-29 Jul 2019	Saylorville Reservoir, Big Creek spillway area	Polk	A-P
2019-20	Painted Bunting		13 Jun 2019	Backyard	Plymouth	A-P
2019-21	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		16 Jul 2019	Lake Manawa	Pottawattamie	A-P
2019-22	Bullock's Oriole		19 May 2019	Ames	Story	A-P
2019-23	Neotropic Cormorant		1 Jun 2019	Elm Lake	Wright	A-P
2019-24	Glossy Ibis		17 Apr 2019	Dunbar Slough	Greene	A-P
2019-25	Black Vulture		2 Apr 2019	Ada Hayden Heritage Park	Story	A-P
2019-26	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		26 Jun 2019	rural area east of Missouri River	Mills	A-P
2019-27	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		9 Aug 2019		Mills	A-P
2019-28	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		23 Jul 2019	Cedar Lake	Linn	A-P
2019-29	Yellow-billed Loon		13 Aug 2019	County Road D46 at East pullout on top of the Brushy Creek dam.	Webster	A-P
2019-30	Fish Crow		14 Sep 2019		Polk	A-R
2019-31	Parasitic Jaeger		18 Sep 2019	Whitebreast Point	Marion	A-P
2019-32	Glossy Ibis		19 Oct 2019	Earlham, Iowa	Dallas	NA
2019-33	Gyrfalcon		31 Oct 2019		Pottawattamie	A-P
2019-34	Rock Wren		26 Oct 2019	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2019-35	California Gull		5 Oct 2019	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2019-36	Fish Crow		10 Jul 2019	Sandpiper Cove Recreation Area, Saylorville Lake	Polk	NA
2019-37	Kirtland's Warbler		28 Sep 2019	Soaring Eagle Nature Center	Clinton	NA
2019-38	Harlequin Duck		3 Dec 2019	Briarstone Lake, Mason City, Iowa	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2019-39	California Gull		8 Dec 2019	Red Rock Reservoir, North Overlook RA	Marion	A-P
2019-40	Mountain Bluebird		13 Dec 2019	Deere Dike	Dubuque	A-P
2019-41	Great Black-backed Gull		24 Dec 2019	Des Moines River at Ottumwa	Wapello	A-P

2018  41 (87.2 %) of 47 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 30) (A-R: 1) (A-D: 10)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2018-01	Hoary Redpoll		13 Jan 2018	neighbor's yard	Clay	A-D
2018-02	Hoary Redpoll		29 Jan 2018	2925ft (892m) E of P66/A21 (220th Ave/470th St) abt 7.25mi ENE of Ledyard, IA	Kossuth	A-D
2018-03	Hoary Redpoll		11 Jan - 17 Feb 2018	backyard in Arthur Heights subdivision	Dickinson	A-D
2018-04	Hoary Redpoll		21 Feb 2018		Warren	A-P
2018-05	Barrow's Goldeneye		9-29 Jan 2018	Mississippi River Pool 14 at Le Claire	Scott	A-P
2018-06	Mountain Bluebird		13-15 Feb 2018		O'Brien	A-P
2018-07	Great Black-backed Gull		25 Feb 2018	Sabula Lakes Park	Jackson	A-P
2018-08	Evening Grosbeak		24-25 Feb 2018	3004 Ross Road	Story	A-D
2018-09	Hoary Redpoll		18 Mar 2018	Oak Grove Recreation Area	Polk	A-P
2018-10	Rufous Hummingbird		13 Apr 2018	6077 130th Galva Iowa	Ida	A-P
2018-11	Evening Grosbeak		18 Apr 2018	Oskaloosa	Mahaska	A-P
2018-12	Evening Grosbeak		22 Apr 2018	private residence	Muscatine	A-P
2018-13	Glossy Ibis		6-7 May 2018	Colo Bog WMA	Story	A-P
2018-14	Painted Bunting		9 May 2018	2046 roundtable road, sergeant Bluff	Woodbury	A-P
2018-15	Prairie Warbler		13-28 May 2018	Croton Unit, Shimek State Forest	Lee	A-P
2018-16	Burrowing Owl		15-27 May 2018	Near intersection of Delaware Ave and C16	Humboldt	A-P
2018-17	Mountain Bluebird		7-11 Apr 2018	Buck Ave	Davis	A-P
2018-18	Yellow-billed Loon		24 May 2018	Jensen Marsh	Madison	NA
2018-19	Parasitic Jaeger		13-14 Jun 2018	Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2018-20	Black-billed Magpie		21 Jul 2018	north east of new sharon	Mahaska	NA
2018-21	Glossy Ibis		10 May 2018	Table Marsh	Woodbury	A-D
2018-22	Little Blue Heron		20 May 2018	Lake Macbride South Arm - 200th St	Johnson	A-P
2018-23	Bewick's Wren		10 May 2018	Schettler Yard	Carroll	NA
2018-24	Painted Bunting		8 Aug 2018	ada hayden heritage park	Story	A-P
2018-25	Roseate Spoonbill		10 Aug 2018	Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2018-26	Swallow-tailed Kite		29 Aug 2018	41.9404491,-90.1987884	Clinton	A-P
2018-27	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		2 Jul 2018	Saddleback Ridge Golf Course near Solon	Johnson	A-P
2018-28	California Gull		22 Jul 2018	east of Spirit Lake dump	Dickinson	A-P
2018-29	Little Blue Heron		9 Aug 2018	Sandpiper Rec. Area, Saylorville Lake, Polk Co. IA	Polk	A-P
2018-30	Black-headed Grosbeak		22 Aug 2018	Neal Smith NWR	Jasper	NA
2018-31	Pomarine Jaeger		8 Sep 2018	From Whitebreast Point area at Lake Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2018-32	Fish Crow		12 Aug 2018	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2018-33	Mottled Duck		26 Aug 2018	Basin north of Moeckly Prairie	Polk	A-P
2018-34	Parasitic Jaeger		28 Aug 2018	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2018-35	Whooping Crane		5 Sep 2018	3 miles north of Fenton	Kossuth	NA
2018-36	Clark's Grebe		22 Sep 2018	Trumbull Lake	Palo Alto	NA
2018-37	Say's Phoebe		26 Oct 2018	East of Trout Ave on 265th St	Union	A-P
2018-38	California Gull		12 Nov 2018	Ft. Madison Riverfront Park	Lee	A-D
2018-39	Varied Thrush		18 Nov 2018	Lime Creek Nature Center	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2018-40	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		9 Jun 2018		Polk	A-P
2018-41	Evening Grosbeak		9 May 2018	1219 Wisconsin Ave. Ames, IA	Story	A-P
2018-42	House Wren		15 Dec 2018	Ivan's Recreation Area	Marion	A-D
2018-43	Western Tanager		16 Dec 2018	Mason City	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2018-44	Little Blue Heron		23 Apr 2018	Ada Hayden Park	Story	A-D
2018-45	Fish Crow		22 Apr 2018	Jester Park	Polk	A-R
2018-46	Little Blue Heron		5 Jul 2018	Ada Hayden Park	Story	A-D
2018-47	Little Blue Heron		21 Jul 2018	Nahant Marsh	Scott	A-D

2017  37 (84.1 %) of 44 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 31) (A-R: 0) (A-D: 6)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2017-01	California Gull		8 Jan 2017	Morningstar airport pits (North of NW 54th Ave)	Polk	A-D
2017-02	Lark Bunting		10 Feb 2017	feeder 3 mile west of Centerville Ia	Appanoose	A-P
2017-03	Wood Stork		5 Apr 2017	Brown Deer Golf Course	Johnson	NA
2017-04	Eurasian Wigeon		17 Apr 2017		Woodbury	A-P
2017-05	White-tailed Kite		18 Apr 2017	Cardinal Marsh	Howard	A-P
2017-06	Arctic Tern		8 May 2017	Lost Island Lake in Ruthven	Palo Alto	NA
2017-07	Prairie Warbler		6 May 2017	Brookside Park, Ames, Iowa	Story	A-D
2017-08	Fish Crow		2 Apr 2017	Saylorville - Cherry Glen RA	Polk	A-P
2017-09	Glossy Ibis		21 Apr 2017	Trumbull Lake	Clay	A-P
2017-10	Ruff		26 Apr 2017	Cone Marsh	Louisa	A-P
2017-11	Western Tanager		30 Apr 2017	Jester Park	Polk	A-P
2017-12	Western Tanager		1 May 2017	1220 Scott Ave Ames, IA	Story	A-P
2017-13	Western Tanager		3 May 2017	Saylorville Visitor Center	Polk	A-D
2017-14	Brown Pelican		2-6 May 2017	Red Rock Dam	Marion	A-P
2017-15	Brown Pelican		17 May 2017	Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2017-16	Brown Pelican		23 May 2017	Credit Island Park	Scott	A-P
2017-17	Prairie Warbler		7 May 2017	Stephens State Forest 1000 acres	Monroe	A-P
2017-18	Western Tanager		7 May 2017	Larry Piatts feeder Centerville, is.	Appanoose	A-P
2017-19	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		2 May 2017	8th Street and Avenue G in Council Bluffs	Pottawattamie	A-P
2017-20	Prairie Warbler		2 Jun 2017	Rotory Park Road	Floyd	NA
2017-21	King Rail		5 Jun 2017	A small farm pond bordered by Reed Canary Grass located 500 feet to the southwest of the Iowa DNR Grand River Wildlife Unit Building along Highway 2	Ringgold	A-P
2017-22	Wood Stork		29 Jun 2017	2 mi. South & 3 mi. West of Scranton	Greene	A-P
2017-23	Ruff		5 Aug 217	north end of Red Rock Refuge	Marion	A-P
2017-24	King Rail		28 Aug 240	Green Island Refuge	Jackson	A-P
2017-25	Little Gull		28 Sep 271	Lake Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2017-26	Swallow-tailed Kite		15 Sep 258		Harrison	A-P
2017-27	Bar-tailed Godwit		5 Aug 2017	Red Rock Reservoir - Pinchey Bottom	Marion	A-P
2017-28	Little Gull		14 Oct 287	Runnells Wildlife Area	Polk	A-P
2017-29	Black-billed Magpie		24 Sep 267	Rt 18	Clayton	NA
2017-30	California Gull		16 Oct 289	Missisippi River L&D 14	Scott	A-P
2017-31	California Gull		23 Oct 296	Mississppi River Pool 15	Scott	A-P
2017-32	Black Vulture		21 Oct 294	Between West Union and Fayette	Fayette	A-D
2017-33	Glossy Ibis		8 Oct 281	Marsh farms Wetlands	Dallas	NA
2017-34	Yellow-billed Loon		7 Nov 2017	State Park Beach, Clear Lake, IA	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2017-35	Common Raven		24 Oct 297	Broken Kettle Grasslands	Plymouth	A-P
2017-36	Gyrfalcon		29 Nov 333	70th ST Saratoga IA	Howard	A-P
2017-37	Glossy Ibis		8 Oct 281	jensen marsh	Madison	NA
2017-38	White-tailed Kite		23 May 143	Sand Creek Wildlife Area	Decatur	A-P
2017-39	Neotropic Cormorant		25 May 145	Ingham-High Lake	Emmet	A-D
2017-40	California Gull		31 May 151	Marble Lake	Dickinson	A-P
2017-41	Great Black-backed Gull		30 Nov 334	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2017-42	Gyrfalcon		10 Dec 344		Sac	A-D
2017-43	Great Black-backed Gull		14 Dec 348	Lake Red Rock Dam	Marion	A-P
2017-44	Mottled Duck		11 Oct 2017	Bob Shetler RA	Polk	NA

2016  42 (85.7 %) of 49 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 1) (A-P: 26) (A-R: 1) (A-D: 14)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2016-01	Harlequin Duck		5 Feb 2016	Ottumwa	Wapello	A-P
2016-02	Greater Prairie-Chicken		21 Jan 2016	near the corner of 110th St and 250th Ave	Ringgold	NA
2016-03	Great Black-backed Gull		28 Feb 2016	Viewed from Red Rock Swimming beach	Marion	A-P
2016-04	Say's Phoebe		8 Apr 2016	Swan Lake State Park	Carroll	A-P
2016-05	Fish Crow		9 Apr 2016	Starr Cave Nature Center trail	Des Moines	A-D
2016-06	Snowy Plover		26 Apr 2016	41.781512, -93.764322	Polk	A-P
2016-07	Ruff		27 Apr 2016	41.391731, -91.386435	Louisa	A-P
2016-08	Black Rail		29 Apr 2016	North side County Rd. E53 between Hiway 25 & County Rd. N58	Greene	A-D
2016-09	Bullock's Oriole		1 May 2016	7 Deer Creek Ct, Mason City, Iowa	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2016-10	Western Tanager		5 May 2016	Ledges State Park	Boone	A-P
2016-11	Burrowing Owl		6 May 2016	Aspen Ave & 110 St	Monona	A-P
2016-12	Black-headed Grosbeak		11 May 2016	Spruce Ave, RR Mason City, Iowa	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2016-13	Harlequin Duck		12 May 2016	42.492471, -92.332807	Black Hawk	A-P
2016-14	Glossy Ibis		12 May 2016	Round Pond at Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2016-15	Lark Bunting		14 May 2016	Hallett Pitts	Sac	A-D
2016-16	King Rail		28 May 2016	40.630519, -95.745455	Fremont	A-R
2016-17	Snowy Plover		30 May 2016	Pleasant Creek RA	Benton	A-P
2016-18	Ruff		6 Jul 2016	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2016-19	King Rail		17 Jul 2016	Dewey's Pasture	Palo Alto	A-D
2016-20	King Rail		24 Jul 2016	Big Wall Lake	Wright	A-D
2016-21	King Rail		24 Jul 2016	Smith tract of Dunbar Slough	Greene	A-D
2016-22	Bewick's Wren		28 Apr 2016	41.037480, -91.071101	Des Moines	A-P
2016-23	Bewick's Wren		4 May 2016	Don Brown's house	Polk	A-P
2016-24	Glossy Ibis		9 Sep 2016	Mt. Sterling Marsh	Van Buren	NA
2016-25	Swallow-tailed Kite		21 Sep 2016	Hitchcock Nature Center	Pottawattamie	A-D
2016-26	Lark Bunting		1 Sep 2016	140th St. / Kingbird Ave.	Audubon	A-D
2016-27	Prairie Warbler		28 Aug 2016	Neal Smith NWR	Jasper	NA
2016-28	Sprague's Pipit		24 Sep 2016	Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt	Polk	A-D
2016-29	Black Rail		21 Oct 2016	114th ave. off county road 99, east of Wapello	Louisa	A-D
2016-30	Glossy Ibis		19 Oct 2016	Hawkeye Widlife Area northeast of Half Moon Ave.	Johnson	A-P
2016-31	Glossy Ibis		3 May 2016	Rapp Park	Page	A-P
2016-32	Black-headed Gull		15 Mar 2016	Between Gingham Inn and the Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery. North end of East Okoboji by the boat ramp.	Dickinson	NA
2016-33	Hoary Redpoll		7 Apr 2016	212 5th Ave. SE, Badger, Iowa	Webster	A-P
2016-34	Swallow-tailed Kite		21 Aug 2016	Hawkeye Wildlife Area; Greencastle Causeway	Johnson	A-P
2016-35	Little Gull		3 Sep 2016	Jester Park, Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2016-36	Inca Dove		22 Sep 2016	Altoona	Polk	A-P
2016-37	California Gull		25 Sep 2016	Sandpiper Beach RA, Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2016-38	Rufous Hummingbird		26 Sep 2016	Glidden Iowa	Carroll	A-P
2016-39	Arctic Tern		30 Oct 2016	Spirit Lake/The Grade	Dickinson	A-D
2016-40	Rufous Hummingbird		20 Nov 2016	1840 Curtis Bridge Rd NE, North Liberty	Johnson	A-S
2016-41	Red Phalarope		5 Aug 2016	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2016-42	Black Vulture		31 Aug 2016	DeSoto NWR	Pottawattamie	NA
2016-43	Little Gull		15 Sep 2016	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2016-44	Brant		7 Dec 2016	John Deere pond (northeast site )	Black Hawk	A-D
2016-45	Say's Phoebe		7 Dec 2016	Front yard	Jefferson	A-P
2016-46	Great Black-backed Gull		20 Dec 2016	Mississippi River L&D 14	Scott	A-P
2016-47	Slaty-backed Gull		23 Dec 2016	Morningstar airport pits	Polk	A-P
2016-AA	Common Raven		3 Jan 2004	Whiting	Monona	NA
2016-AB	Cook Inlet Gull (GWGU x HERG)		17 Nov 2007	below Red Rock dam	Marion	NA

2015  30 (88.2 %) of 34 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 1) (A-P: 20) (A-R: 0) (A-D: 9)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2015-02	Great Black-backed Gull		11 Jan 2015	Lock and Dam 14, Mississippi River	Scott	A-D
2015-03	Great Black-backed Gull		8 Feb 2015	Cedar Lake	Linn	A-P
2015-04	Burrowing Owl		25 Apr 2015	North and east of Arthur, Iowa	Ida	A-P
2015-05	Mottled Duck		26 Apr 2015	Dunbar Slough WMA	Greene	A-D
2015-06	Lazuli Bunting		25 Apr 2015	north of Glenwood	Mills	A-P
2015-07	Lazuli Bunting		15 May 2015	carroll Iowa	Carroll	A-P
2015-08	Ruff		2 May 2015	Hawkeye Wildlife Area, Sand Point	Johnson	A-P
2015-09	Glossy Ibis		27 Apr 2015	Cone Marsh	Louisa	A-P
2015-10	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		13 May 2015	T69N R40W Sec. 15	Fremont	A-P
2015-11	Black Vulture		22 May 2015	Jester Park	Polk	A-P
2015-12	Western Tanager		21 May 2015	My Yard	Dickinson	A-D
2015-13	European Goldfinch		14 Mar 2015	North edge of Cardinal Marsh	Winneshiek	NA
2015-14	Glossy Ibis		25 Apr 2015	Luton North WMA	Woodbury	A-P
2015-15	Whimbrel		11 Jun 2015	Green Island	Jackson	A-D
2015-16	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		18 Jun 2015	Wapsi River Environmental Center	Scott	A-P
2015-17	Painted Bunting		7 Jun 2015	3226 Dows Williams Road, Williams, Iowa 50271	Wright	A-P
2015-18	Townsend's Warbler		22 Aug 2015	South of Center Lake in Dickinson County	Dickinson	A-P
2015-19	Brown Booby		3 Sep 2015	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2015-20	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		7 Sep 2015	Union Slough NWR	Kossuth	A-P
2015-21	California Gull		13 Sep 2015	Lake Red Rock Dam	Marion	A-P
2015-22	Blue-winged Warbler		2 Oct 2015	Riverton WMA	Fremont	A-P
2015-23	Red Knot		2 Oct 2015	Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2015-24	Parasitic Jaeger		3 Oct 2015	Red Rock Resevoir White Breast Point	Marion	A-D
2015-25	Clark's Nutcracker		5 Oct 2015	Lakeside Lab on west side of West Lake Okoboji	Dickinson	A-D
2015-26	Vermilion Flycatcher		21 Nov 2015	2180 N River School Rd Winterset IA	Madison	A-P
2015-27	Anna's Hummingbird		16 Nov 2015	14 SW 58th Dr	Polk	A-P
2015-28	Pine Grosbeak		21 Nov 2015	E Lawn Cemetery, Sheldon	O'Brien	A-P
2015-29	Lewis's Woodpecker		28 Nov 2015	Diamondhead Lake (rural Dexter, Iowa)	Guthrie	A-D
2015-30	Clark's Grebe		24 Oct 2015	Spirit Lake	Dickinson	NA
2015-31	Black-headed Gull		28 Nov 2015	east pond of Bob Shetler area below Saylorville dam	Polk	A-D
2015-32	Say's Phoebe		27 Dec 2015	Broken Kettle Grasslands	Plymouth	A-D
2015-33	Clark's Nutcracker		18 Oct 2015	Approx. 100 yards southwest of intersection of Alpine Avenue and 240th Street, in extreme western Ida County.	Ida	NA
2015-AA	Great Gray Owl		26 Jan 2005	Iowa City, north side, by Haywood Drive Apartments	Johnson	NA
2015-AB	Boreal Owl		late winter or early spring of 2013	Dordt College	Sioux	A-S

2014  49 (83.1 %) of 59 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 34) (A-R: 0) (A-D: 15)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2014-01	Gyrfalcon		1 Jan 2014	2 miles south of Joice	Worth	A-D
2014-02	Great Black-backed Gull		17-27 Feb 2014	Iowa River, Coralville	Johnson	A-D
2014-03	Greater Prairie-Chicken		20 Mar 2014	I-35	Franklin	NA
2014-04	Mountain Bluebird		21 Mar 2014	Otter Creek Loop	Louisa	A-D
2014-05	Clark's Grebe		24 Mar 2014	Gray's Lake	Polk	NA
2014-06	Pacific Wren		6 Apr 2014	Starr's Cave	Des Moines	NA
2014-07	Ruff		12 Apr 2014	Near Scales Pointe	Johnson	A-P
2014-08	Black-legged Kittiwake		12 Apr 2014	Gray's Lake	Polk	A-P
2014-09	Western Tanager		24 Apr 2014	36504 200th Ave- our backyard	Winnebago	A-P
2014-10	Say's Phoebe		15 Apr 2014	Greenbelt Lake	Black Hawk	A-P
2014-11	California Gull		2 May 2014	Sandy Beach	Johnson	A-P
2014-12	Brambling		5 May 2014	110 E 2nd St Peterson	Clay	A-P
2014-13	Painted Bunting		5-6 May 2014	Saint Charles	Madison	A-P
2014-14	Black-headed Grosbeak		9-10 May 2014	backyard	Clay	A-P
2014-15	Brown Pelican		11 May 2014	I-29 and Waubonsie Ave.	Fremont	NA
2014-16	Black-legged Kittiwake		16-18 May 2014	Red Rock Reservoir Dam	Marion	A-P
2014-17	Lazuli Bunting		21-23 May 2014	My Yard	Dickinson	A-P
2014-18	Lazuli Bunting		21-23 May 2014	Curt Nelson residence	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2014-19	Iceland Gull		23-28 Mar 2014	Sandy Beach, Coralville Res.	Johnson	A-P
2014-20	Hooded Oriole		9-10 May 2014	Ames	Story	A-P
2014-21	Lark Bunting		4 Jun 2014	Lansing	Allamakee	A-P
2014-22	Western Tanager		2 May 2014	My Yard	Dickinson	A-P
2014-23	Lazuli Bunting		18 May 2014	Little Sioux Greenbelt	Cherokee	A-P
2014-24	Mottled Duck		14 May 2014	Dunbar Slough	Greene	A-P
2014-25	Fish Crow		20 May 2014	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2014-26	Black-headed Grosbeak		20 Jun 2014	Power wire along road	Muscatine	NA
2014-27	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		10 May 2014	Backyard, Spencer	Clay	A-P
2014-28	Great Black-backed Gull		16 Feb-5 Mar 2014	Cedar Lake	Linn	A-P
2014-29	Great Black-backed Gull		7 Apr 2014	Coralville Lake	Johnson	A-P
2014-30	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		3 Jul 2014	Green Island WMA	Jackson	A-P
2014-31	King Rail		13 Jul 2014	Hawkeye WMA	Johnson	A-D
2014-32	Ruff		26 Jul 2014	near intersection of B63 & N28	Palo Alto	A-D
2014-33	Roseate Spoonbill		30 Jul-5 Aug 2014	Frazer's Bend	Fremont	A-P
2014-34	Burrowing Owl		1 May 2014	Middletown	Des Moines	A-P
2014-35	King Rail		31 May-3 Jun 2014	Big Wall Lake	Wright	A-P
2014-36	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		2 Jun 2014	Crow Creek WMA	Scott	A-P
2014-37	Lark Bunting		25 Jun 2014	Hospers	Sioux	NA
2014-38	Pine Grosbeak		19 May 2014	Mason City	Cerro Gordo	NA
2014-40	Little Gull		9 Aug 2014	Deere Dike	Dubuque	A-P
2014-41	Red Phalarope		29-30 Aug 2014	Oak Grove Saylorville	Polk	A-P
2014-42	Swallow-tailed Kite		31 Aug 2014	3097 285th St. Stuart, IA 50250	Guthrie	A-D
2014-43	Long-tailed Jaeger		31 Aug-1 Sep 2014	Whitebreast Point, Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2014-44	Rufous Hummingbird		5 Sep 2014	Homestead	Iowa	A-P
2014-45	Little Gull		7 Sep 2014	Pat and Jack Scenic Overlook	Scott	A-D
2014-46	Long-tailed Jaeger		5-9 Oct 2014	White Breast Point at Lake Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-D
2014-47	Sprague's Pipit		11 Oct 2014	Dunbar Slough	Greene	A-D
2014-48	Little Gull		17-18 Oct 2014	Lake MacBride	Johnson	A-P
2014-49	Ferruginous Hawk		4 Nov 2014	Hitchcock Nature Center	Pottawattamie	A-D
2014-50	Common Raven		8-25 Nov 2014	Big Creek Spillway on Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2014-51	Gyrfalcon		11 Nov 2014	Hitchcock Nature Center	Pottawattamie	A-D
2014-52	Gyrfalcon		16 Nov 2014	Yellow Ave between 470th St. and B53	O'Brien	A-D
2014-53	Gyrfalcon		16 Oct 2014	Kellerton	Ringgold	NA
2014-54	Say's Phoebe		12 Dec 2014	Stony Hollow Rd and 105 ave.	Des Moines	A-D
2014-55	Costa's Hummingbird		10 Sep 2014	Lansing	Allamakee	NA
2014-55G	Calypte sp.		10 Sep 2014	Lansing	Allamakee	NA
2014-56	Parasitic Jaeger		1 Nov 2014	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2014-58	California Gull		6 Dec 2014	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2014-61	Pine Grosbeak		20-22 Dec 2014	ISU Hort Farm	Story	A-P
2014-62	Harlequin Duck		31 Dec 2014-12 Jan 2015	Center Street dam, Des Moines River, downtown Des Moiens	Polk	A-P

2013  39 (84.8 %) of 46 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 28) (A-R: 0) (A-D: 11)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2013-01	Hoary Redpoll		4 Jan 2013	field immediately North of the beginning of Silver Creek Rd where it intersects with Highway 52, eight miles North of Decorah	Winneshiek	A-P
2013-02	Great Black-backed Gull		6 Jan 2013	davenport, iowa lock and dam 14	Scott	A-P
2013-03	White-winged Crossbill		7 Jan 2013	onawa	Monona	A-P
2013-04	Iceland Gull		26 Jan 2013	Davenport, Iowa	Scott	A-P
2013-05	Hoary Redpoll		26 Jan 2013	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2013-06	Hoary Redpoll		26 Jan 2013	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2013-07	Hoary Redpoll		16 Feb 2013	Curt Nelson farm	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2013-08	White-winged Crossbill		18 Feb 2013	Des Moines	Polk	A-D
2013-09	Mountain Bluebird		9 Mar 2013	Maffitt Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2013-10	Sprague's Pipit		22 Apr 2013	Errington Marsh	Polk	A-P
2013-11	Bewick's Wren		1 May 2013	Farmstead off of 190th	Decatur	A-P
2013-12	Glossy Ibis		3 May 2013	Hawkeye WMA	Johnson	A-P
2013-13	Say's Phoebe		4 May 2013	Sweet Marsh	Bremer	A-P
2013-14	Painted Bunting		9 May 2013	My house,601 Church St. Shenandoah	Page	A-P
2013-15	Say's Phoebe		9 May 2013	Ada Hayden Heritage Park	Story	A-P
2013-16	Lazuli Bunting		10 May 2013	feeder , Carroll iowa	Carroll	A-P
2013-17	Rock Wren		11 May 2013	On V Ave. near 170th St. intersection	Boone	A-P
2013-18	Western Tanager		11 May 2013	Mason City	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2013-19	Bullock's Oriole		13 May 2013	Robison Wildlife Acres	Story	NA
2013-20	Glossy Ibis		14 May 2013	150 yds west of intersection of county road C-25 and Reed Ave	Wright	NA
2013-21	Lazuli Bunting		18 May 2013	4045 White Ave, Hartley, IA 51346	O'Brien	A-P
2013-22	Prairie Warbler		4 Jun 2013	Shimek SF/Croton Unit	Lee	A-P
2013-23	Yellow-rumped Warbler		11 May 2013	Oak Grove, Saylorville	Polk	NA
2013-24	Prairie Warbler		15 Jun 2013	Eldon WMA	Davis	A-D
2013-25	Hoary Redpoll		10 Mar 2013	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2013-26	Hoary Redpoll		13 Mar 2013	2 miles south of Belmond	Wright	A-D
2013-27	Hoary Redpoll		21 Mar 2013	8 mi southeast of Riceville	Howard	A-D
2013-28	Western Tanager		12 May 2013	Spencer	Clay	A-D
2013-29	Neotropic Cormorant		13 May 2013	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-D
2013-30	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		20 Aug 2013	Lake Ponderosa	Poweshiek	A-P
2013-31	Neotropic Cormorant		12 Oct 2013	clinton	Clinton	A-D
2013-32	Ferruginous Hawk		24 Oct 2013	Hitchcock Nature Center Hawk Watch Tower, near Crescent Iowa	Pottawattamie	A-D
2013-33	Black-legged Kittiwake		9 Nov 2013	Saylorville	Polk	A-D
2013-34	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper		10 Nov 2013	Otter Creek Marsh	Tama	A-P
2013-35	Little Gull		16 Nov 2013	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-P
2013-36	Mew Gull		24 Nov 2013	Bettendorf, Iowa	Scott	NA
2013-37	Mountain Chickadee		28 Nov 2013	Des Moines	Polk	NA
2013-38	Ferruginous Hawk		24 Oct 2013	Hitchcock Nature Center Hawk Watch Tower, near Crescent Iowa	Pottawattamie	A-D
2013-39	Rufous Hummingbird		2 Nov 2013	Davenport, Iowa	Scott	A-P
2013-40	Glaucous-winged Gull		7 Dec 2013	Centennial Park in Davenport, Iowa, riverfront	Scott	A-P
2013-41	Ross's Gull		1 Dec 2013	Lake Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2013-42	Rufous Hummingbird		14 Nov 2013	Cedar Rapids	Linn	A-P
2013-AA	King Rail		15 Jul 2005	Sycamore Bottoms	Johnson	A-P
2013-AB	Neotropic Cormorant		27 Jun 2012	Pool 13	Clinton	A-P
2013-AC	White-crowned Sparrow		11 Aug 2012	Jensen Marsh	Madison	NA
2013-AD	Evening Grosbeak		14 Dec 2012	3838 Hobson Ave., Davenport	Scott	NA

2012  47 (81.0 %) of 58 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 32) (A-R: 2) (A-D: 13)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2012-01	Mew Gull		8 Jan 2012	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	A-D
2012-02	Great Black-backed Gull		9 Jan 2012	Fort Madison	Lee	A-P
2012-03	Iceland Gull		29 Jan 2012	Pool 19	Lee	A-D
2012-04	Bullock's Oriole		26 Nov 2011 - 21 Mar 2012	208 W Golf Avenue, Ottumwa	Wapello	A-P
2012-05	Hoary Redpoll		11 Feb 2012	Storm Lake Cemetery	Buena Vista	A-D
2012-06	LeConte's Sparrow		12 Feb 2012	Big Creek	Polk	A-D
2012-07	Mottled Duck		28 Mar 2012	Forney Lake	Fremont	A-P
2012-08	Neotropic Cormorant		9 Apr 2012	Forney Lake	Fremont	A-D
2012-09	Say's Phoebe		18 Apr 2012	Onawa	Monona	NA
2012-10	Black-headed Grosbeak		4 May 2012	About 1/3 of a mile north of 290th	Carroll	NA
2012-11	King Rail		10 May 2012	Fallow Marsh	Palo Alto	NA
2012-12	Curlew Sandpiper		25 May 2012	Hawkeye Wildlife Area	Johnson	A-P
2012-13	Neotropic Cormorant		25 May 2012	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2012-14	California Gull		31 May 2012	Hawkeye WA	Johnson	A-P
2012-15	California Gull		31 May 2012	Hawkeye WA	Johnson	A-P
2012-16	Mottled Duck		14 Apr 2012	New Lake	Woodbury	A-P
2012-17	Burrowing Owl		25 Mar 2012	East of Beemer Pond on 240th	Hamilton	A-D
2012-18	Glossy Ibis		8 May 2012	Crane Creek	Black Hawk	A-P
2012-19	Great Black-backed Gull		26 - 31 Jan 2012	L&D 14, Mississippi River	Scott	A-P
2012-20	Neotropic Cormorant		1 Apr 2012	Forney Lake	Fremont	A-P
2012-21	Glossy Ibis		10 Apr 2012	Nellen Marsh-Old Lake Waubonsie	Mills	A-P
2012-22	Iceland Gull		6 Feb 2012	Mississippi River L&D 14	Scott	A-P
2012-23	Great Black-backed Gull		9 - 11 Feb 2012	L&D 14	Scott	A-P
2012-24	Iceland Gull		22 Feb 2012	L&D 15	Scott	A-P
2012-25	Green-tailed Towhee		17 May 2012	Our yard	Boone	A-P
2012-26	Ferruginous Hawk		1 May 2012	Riverton WA	Fremont	NA
2012-27	Fulvous Whistling-Duck		17 Jun 2012	Forney Lake	Fremont	A-P
2012-28	California Gull		25 Jun 2012	Lake Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2012-29	Laughing Gull		25 Jun 2012	Lake Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2012-30	Neotropic Cormorant		21 Jul 2012	New Lake	Woodbury	A-P
2012-31	Lazuli Bunting		8 Jul 2012	16035 113th Ave	Appanoose	A-P
2012-32	Swallow-tailed Kite		25 Aug 2012	Otter Creek Marsh	Tama	A-P
2012-33	Roseate Spoonbill		5 Sep 2012	Jester Park	Polk	A-P
2012-34	Neotropic Cormorant		14 Sep 2012	Robert's Creek	Marion	NA
2012-35	Sutton's Warbler		16 Sep 2012	Lake Ahquabi SP	Warren	NA
2012-36	Arctic Tern		22 Sep 2012	Sandpiper Beach, Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2012-37	Sharp-tailed Sandpiper		25 Sep 2012	Fox River Wetlands	Van Buren	NA
2012-38	Sprague's Pipit		7 Oct 2012	Errington Marsh	Polk	A-P
2012-39	Rock Wren		11 Oct 2012	Hitchcock Nature Center	Pottawattamie	A-D
2012-40	Lazuli Bunting		28 Jun 2012	Red Rock Lake	Marion	A-D
2012-41	Sprague's Pipit		3 Oct 2012	WPA at corner of B14 and 115th Ave	Kossuth	A-D
2012-42	California Gull		1 Nov 2012	Lock and Dam 19	Lee	NA
2012-43	Bohemian Waxwing		8 Nov 2012	1/2 mile east of Waterman on 470th	O'Brien	A-P
2012-44	Pine Grosbeak		24 Nov 2012	bird bath in Lake Mills	Winnebago	NA
2012-45	Rufous Hummingbird		7 Nov 2012	Davenport	Scott	A-P
2012-46	Evening Grosbeak		24 Nov 2012	Ankeny	Polk	NA
2012-47	Blue Grosbeak		25 Mar 2012	Martin Park, W'loo, IA	Black Hawk	NA
2012-48	Whooping Crane		25 Nov 2012	Sioux City	Woodbury	A-D
2012-49	White-winged Crossbill		8 Nov 2012	Hampton	Franklin	A-P
2012-50	Evening Grosbeak		10 Nov 2012	228 W. 21st St. Carroll	Carroll	A-P
2012-51	Evening Grosbeak		7 Nov 2012	3911 Greencastle Ave., SW, Oxford, IA	Johnson	A-D
2012-52	White-winged Crossbill		7 Nov 2012	Ames, Iowa	Story	A-P
2012-53	Red Crossbill		8 Nov 2012	Hampton cemetery	Franklin	A-R
2012-54	Evening Grosbeak		19 Nov 2012	2753 333rd Ave, Ridgeway	Winneshiek	A-P
2012-55	White-winged Crossbill		26 Dec 2012	Garner Cemetery	Hancock	A-D
2012-56	Glaucous Gull		20 Oct 2012	Trumbull Lake	Clay	A-D
2012-57	Gyrfalcon		5 Dec 2012	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2012-AA	Painted Bunting		1 May 2007	Chester	Howard	A-R

2011  25 (71.4 %) of 35 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 13) (A-R: 1) (A-D: 11)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2011-01	Great Black-backed Gull		12-26 Jan 2011	Montrose	Lee	A-D
2011-02	Sprague's Pipit		19 Feb 2011	Waterman Prairie	O'Brien	NA
2011-03	Mountain Bluebird		8 Jan 2011	Little Sioux River	Cherokee	A-P
2011-04	Neotropic Cormorant		2 - 7 Apr 2011	Bay's Branch	Guthrie	A-P
2011-05	Ruff		7 Apr 2011	Ada Hayden, Ames	Story	A-P
2011-06	Great Black-backed Gull		15 Apr 2011	Riverton WA	Fremont	NA
2011-07	Ferruginous Hawk		16 Apr 2011	Shenandoah	Page	NA
2011-08	Glossy Ibis		17-27 Apr 2011	Secret Lake	Fremont	A-P
2011-10	Black Rail		24 Apr 2011	Sycamore Bottoms	Johnson	NA
2011-11	Great Black-backed Gull		26 - 28 Apr 2011	Waubonsie Access	Fremont	NA
2011-12	Black-headed Grosbeak		6 - 7 May 2011	rural Norwalk	Warren	A-P
2011-13	Ruff		10 - 11 May 2011	Inkpaduta Access	Woodbury	A-D
2011-14	Prairie Warbler		11 May 2011	Knapp WMA	Dallas	NA
2011-15	Painted Bunting		12 May 2011	Dunbar Slough	Greene	A-P
2011-16	Neotropic Cormorant		12 May 2011	Goose Lake	Greene	A-D
2011-17	Lazuli Bunting		14 - 17 May 2011	rural Jefferson	Greene	A-P
2011-18	Neotropic Cormorant		14 May 2011	DeSoto NWR	Harrison	A-D
2011-19	Brambling		15 May 2011	Ringstead	Emmet	NA
2011-20	Laughing Gull		19-20 May 2011	Lake Manawa	Pottawattamie	A-P
2011-21	Snowy Plover		22 - 23 May 2011	Riverton WA	Fremont	A-P
2011-22	Black-headed Grosbeak		20-23 May 2011	rural Booneville	Madison	A-D
2011-23	Black Rail		27 May - 2 Jun 2011	Hoosier Creek	Johnson	A-R
2011-24	Lazuli Bunting		30 May 2011	Wildcat Cave Access WA	Hardin	A-D
2011-25	Bewick's Wren		8-17 June 2011	Ropp Farm	Johnson	A-D
2011-26	King Rail		19 June 2011	Dunbar Slough	Greene	A-D
2011-27	Broad-billed Hummingbird		24-25 June 2011	Charles City	Floyd	A-P
2011-28	Laughing Gull		5 Aug 2011	Saylorville	Polk	NA
2011-29	Tricolored Heron		8 Aug 2011	Big Lake	Black Hawk	NA
2011-30	California Gull		28 Sep 2011	Green Bay Bottoms	Lee	NA
2011-31	Ferruginous Hawk		15 Oct 2011	Hitchcock NA	Pottawattamie	A-D
2011-32	Barrow's Goldeneye		30 Nov - 16 Dec 2011	Eagle Point Park	Clinton	A-D
2011-33	Curve-billed Thrasher		14 Nov 2011 - 5 Feb 2012	near Lucas	Lucas	A-P
2011-34	Iceland Gull		10 Dec 2011 - 6 Jan 2012	Polk County landfill & Saylorville Res.	Polk	A-P
2011-35	Black-legged Kittiwake		31 Dec 2011 - 1 Jan 2012	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	A-P
2011-AA	Painted Bunting		16 Jun 2005	North of Denison, Iowa	Crawford	A-D

2010  45 (81.8 %) of 55 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 36) (A-R: 0) (A-D: 9)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2010-01	Black-billed Magpie		12 January 2010	Guthrie Center	Guthrie	NA
2010-02	Laughing Gull		4 Apr 2010	Saylorville Res.	Polk	A-P
2010-03	Rock Wren		2 - 10 May 2010	rural Fredericksburg	Bremer	A-P
2010-04	Whimbrel		13 May 2010	Riverton WA	Fremont	A-D
2010-05	Black-headed Grosbeak		15 May 2010	Humboldt	Humboldt	NA
2010-06	Bullock's Oriole		16 May 2010	Humboldt	Humboldt	NA
2010-07	Common Raven		22 May 2010	Intersection of Hwy 2 and M16	Fremont	NA
2010-08	Neotropic Cormorant		3 Apr 2010	Pierce Creek RA	Page	A-P
2010-09	Prairie Warbler		17 May 2010	Morehead Park	Ida	A-P
2010-10	Black Rail		28 May 2010	Union Slough NWR	Kossuth	A-D
2010-11	Bullock's Oriole		30 May 2010	Blackhawk WA	Sac	NA
2010-12	Burrowing Owl		26 May 2010	near Cayler Prairie	Dickinson	A-P
2010-13	Western Tanager		9 May 2010	Credit Island	Scott	A-P
2010-14	Black-headed Grosbeak		4 June 2010	s. of Akron	Plymouth	A-D
2010-15	California Gull		9-17 July 2010	Spirit Lake Landfill	Dickinson	A-D
2010-16	Say's Phoebe		1 - 21 July 2010	Freda Hafner Prairie	Dickinson	A-P
2010-17	Neotropic Cormorant		16 May - 1 Sep 2010	Rapp Park	Page	A-P
2010-18	Neotropic Cormorant		1-8 Aug 2010	Waubonsie Access	Fremont	A-P
2010-19	Inca Dove		10-27 Aug 2010	St. Ansgar	Mitchell	NA
2010-20	Rufous Hummingbird		19-21 Aug 2010	Armstrong's farm	Madison	A-P
2010-21	Neotropic Cormorant		8-18 Sep 2010	Cedar Lake	Linn	A-P
2010-22	Laughing Gull		10-25 Sep 2010	Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2010-23	Parasitic Jaeger		17 Sep -2 Oct 2010	Lake Manawa	Pottawattamie	A-P
2010-24	Cassin's Vireo		21 Sep 2010	bike trail	Dickinson	NA
2010-25	Lewis's Woodpecker		10 Oct 2010	Hitchcock NA	Pottawattamie	A-D
2010-26	Red Phalarope		10-19 Oct 2010	Rock Creek SP	Jasper	A-P
2010-27	Glossy Ibis		21 Oct 2010	Sycamore Bottoms	Johnson	A-P
2010-28	Anna's Hummingbird		31 Oct - 25 Nov 2010	Aaron Bree's yard	Polk	A-P
2010-29	Glossy Ibis		12 Nov 2010	n. of Lansing	Allamakee	NA
2010-30	Mew Gull		16 Nov 2010	Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2010-31	Black-legged Kittiwake		17 Nov 2010	Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2010-32	Ferruginous Hawk		21 Nov 2010	Hitchcock NA	Pottawattamie	A-D
2010-33	Arctic Tern		20-29 Nov 2010	Lake Macbride	Johnson	A-P
2010-34	Black-legged Kittiwake		23-28 Nov 2010	Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2010-35	Rufous Hummingbird		27-28 Aug 2010	Livingston farm	Decatur	A-P
2010-36	Iceland Gull		31 Jan 2010	L&D 14	Scott	A-P
2010-37	Iceland Gull		7 Feb 2010	L&D 15	Scott	A-P
2010-38	Iceland Gull		12 Mar 2010	L&D 14	Scott	A-P
2010-39	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		12 Aug 2010	Rathbun WA	Appanoose	A-P
2010-40	Parasitic Jaeger		19-21 Sep 2010	Red Rock	Marion	A-D
2010-41	Red Phalarope		5 Oct 2010	Saylorville	Polk	A-D
2010-42	California Gull		30 Nov -5 Dec 2010	Saylorville	Polk	A-P
2010-43	Laughing Gull		6 Sep 2010	Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2010-44	Plegadis sp.		12 Nov 2010		Allamakee	A-P
2010-45	Evening Grosbeak		13 Oct 2010	Mason City	Cerro Gordo	NA
2010-46	Laughing Gull		20 Aug 2010	Saylorville	Polk	A-P
2010-48	Black-legged Kittiwake		5-9 Dec 2010	Red Rock	Marion	A-P
2010-49	California Gull		20-23 Dec 2010	Ottumwa	Wapello	A-P
2010-AA	Prairie Warbler		3 May 2008	Robison Wildlife Acres	Story	A-P
2010-AB	Lazuli Bunting		6 May 2007	Blue Lake	Monona	A-P
2010-AC	Western Tanager		25 May 2009	Missouri Valley	Harrison	A-P
2010-AD	Say's Phoebe		18 Jun 2009	Saylorville Res.	Polk	NA
2010-AE	Pacific Wren		21 Oct 2003	Brookside Park, Ames	Story	A-D
2010-AF	Iceland Gull		8 Feb 2009	L&D 15	Scott	A-P
2010-AG	Ruff		28 Aug 2008	Sand Point, Hawkeye WA	Johnson	A-P

2009  30 (73.2 %) of 41 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 19) (A-R: 0) (A-D: 11)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2009-01	Hoary Redpoll		31 Jan to 15 Feb 2009	Mason City	Cerro Gordo	A-D
2009-02	Black Vulture		24 Feb 2009	Des Moines	Polk	A-D
2009-03	Barrow's Goldeneye		25 Feb 2009	L. Manawa	Pottawattamie	NA
2009-04	Ferruginous Hawk		20 to 22 March	near Davis City	Decatur	NA
2009-05	Ferruginous Hawk		24 Mar 2009	near Lacey-Keosauqua SP	Van Buren	A-D
2009-06	Mountain Bluebird		3 - 4 Apr 2009	Camp Mitigwa	Boone	A-P
2009-07	Violet-green Swallow		14 May 2009	Hawarden	Sioux	A-P
2009-08	Snowy Plover		24 April 2009	Dairy Pond	Woodbury	A-P
2009-09	Snowy Plover		25 - 26 April 2009	Saylorville Res.	Polk	A-P
2009-10	Fork-tailed Flycatcher		25 - 27 April 2009	Dysart	Tama	A-P
2009-11	Ruff		28 April 2009	Cone Marsh	Louisa	A-P
2009-12	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		30 April 2009	Diamond Lake	Poweshiek	A-P
2009-13	Lazuli Bunting		5 - 7 May 2009	Des Moines	Polk	A-P
2009-14	Western Tanager		9 - 10 May 2009	Cherokee	Cherokee	A-P
2009-15	Black-headed Grosbeak		13 May 2009	Story City	Story	A-P
2009-16	Black-headed Grosbeak		14 May 2009	Elk Creek Road	Woodbury	A-D
2009-17	Black-headed Grosbeak		14 May 2009	Sycamore Bottoms	Johnson	NA
2009-18	Whimbrel		15 May 2009	Forney Lake	Fremont	A-P
2009-19	Western Tanager		15 May 2009	Shellrock Greenbelt	Cerro Gordo	A-P
2009-20	Sprague's Pipit		16 May 2009	Lower Hamburg Bend	Fremont	A-D
2009-21	Black-headed Grosbeak		17 May 2009	Spark's Cemetery Area	Boone	A-P
2009-22	Black-headed Grosbeak		17 - 18 May 2009	Sioux City	Woodbury	A-P
2009-23	Scott's Oriole		18 May 2009	Sioux Rapids	Buena Vista	NA
2009-24	Black-headed Grosbeak		19 May 2009	Sioux Center	Sioux	A-D
2009-25	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		1 May 2009	Hobbs Pits	Carroll	A-P
2009-26	Glossy Ibis		10-31 May 2009	Errington Marsh	Polk	NA
2009-27	Neotropic Cormorant		5 July 2009	Elm Lake	Wright	A-P
2009-28	Mottled Duck		8 July - 5 August 2009	Saylorville Res.	Polk	A-P
2009-29	Connecticut Warbler		13 July 2009	LaPorte City	Black Hawk	NA
2009-30	Burrowing Owl		12 May 2009	s. of Monona	Monona	A-P
2009-31	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		23 Sep 2009	near Fort Madison	Lee	A-P
2009-32	McCown's Longspur		11 Oct 2009	between Algona and Burt	Kossuth	NA
2009-33	Whooping Crane		18 Oct 2009	n. of Chariton	Lucas	NA
2009-34	Gyrfalcon		21 Oct 2009	Hitchcock NA	Pottawattamie	NA
2009-35	Sharp-tailed Grouse		10 Nov 2009	McFarland Park	Story	NA
2009-36	Black-billed Magpie		19 Oct 2009	Hitchcock WA	Pottawattamie	A-D
2009-37	Chestnut-collared Longspur		24 Oct 2009		Kossuth	A-D
2009-38	Whimbrel		23 Aug 2009	Hawkeye WA	Johnson	A-D
2009-39	King Rail		6 Aug 2009	Chichaqua WA	Polk	A-D
2009-40	Monk Parakeet		3 Nov 2009	Iowa City	Johnson	NA
2009-AA	Gyrfalcon		19 Jan 2001	Waterman Twp.	O'Brien	A-D

2008  43 (79.6 %) of 54 reviews were accepted. (A-S: 0) (A-P: 27) (A-R: 0) (A-D: 16)

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Record	Species		Dates	Location	County	Results
2008-01	Iceland Gull		12 Jan 2008	Keokuk	Lee	A-D
2008-02	Iceland Gull		5 Feb 2008	L&D 15	Scott	NA
2008-03	Scott's Oriole		7-16 Apr 2008	Estherville	Emmet	A-P
2008-04	White-winged Dove		1-9 May 2008	Oskaloosa	Mahaska	A-D
2008-05	Prairie Warbler		2 May 2008	Nine Eagles SP	Decatur	A-D
2008-06	Neotropic Cormorant		3-6 May 2008	near Riverton	Fremont	A-P
2008-07	White-winged Dove		6-7 May 2008	Waterloo	Black Hawk	A-P
2008-08	Painted Bunting		12-25 May 2008	Brookside Park, Ames	Story	A-P
2008-09	Whimbrel		20 May 2008	Riverton	Fremont	A-P
2008-10	White-winged Dove		25-30 May 2008	Glidden	Carroll	A-P
2008-11	White-winged Dove		4-6 June 2008	Adel	Dallas	A-P
2008-12	White-winged Dove		26-27 April 2008	near St. Anthony	Marshall	A-P
2008-13	Glossy Ibis		4 May 2008	Rush Lake	Palo Alto	NA
2008-14	Lazuli Bunting		14-15 May 2008	Carroll	Carroll	A-P
2008-15	Eurasian Wigeon		14 April 2008	Swan Lake	Johnson	A-D
2008-16	Glossy Ibis		18 May 2008	Riverton	Fremont	A-P
2008-17	White-winged Dove		26 May 2008	Ames	Story	A-P
2008-18	Lazuli Bunting		26-28 May 2008	Sioux Center	Sioux	A-D
2008-19	White-winged Dove		6 Jun 2008		Decatur	A-D
2008-20	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck		10 Jun 2008	Beaman	Grundy	A-D
2008-21	Black Vulture		12 Jul 2008	Port Louisa NWR	Louisa	A-D
2008-22	Glossy Ibis		29 Jun 2008	near Chelsea	Tama	A-P
2008-23	Laughing Gull		11 Jul 2008	Saylorville Res.	Polk	A-P
2008-24	Glossy Ibis		9-12 July 2008	Forney Lake	Fremont	A-P
2008-25	Tricolored Heron		11 July 2008	Forney Lake	Fremont	A-D
2008-26	Yellow-billed Loon		15-19 July 2008	between Traer and Gladbrook	Tama	A-P
2008-27	White Ibis		7 -8 August 2008	Forney Lake	Fremont	NA
2008-28	Snowy Plover		3 September 2008	Hawkeye WA	Johnson	A-D
2008-29	Cave Swallow		4 September 2008	Saylorville Res.	Polk	NA
2008-30	Prothonotary Warbler		8 October 2008	Easter Lake	Polk	A-D
2008-31	Sprague's Pipit		25 Oct 2008	Rapp Park	Page	NA
2008-32	Red Phalarope		25 Oct 2008	Red Rock Res.	Marion	A-D
2008-33	Black-legged Kittiwake		31 Oct to 1 Nov 2008	Saylorville Res.	Polk	A-P
2008-34	Black-legged Kittiwake		8 Nov 2008	Red Rock Dam	Marion	A-P
2008-35	Little Gull		4 Nov 2008	Saylorville Res.	Polk	NA
2008-36	Glossy Ibis		20 to 21 May 2008		Iowa	A-P
2008-37	King Rail		20 Aug 2008	Dean Bottoms	Appanoose	NA
2008-38	Bullock's Oriole		8 Sep 2008	s of Nevada	Story	A-P
2008-39	Red Phalarope		26 Sep 2008	Saylorville Res.	Polk	A-D
2008-40	Barrow's Goldeneye		30 Nov 2008	Red Rock Res.