Nesting Species

213 species nest or have nested in Iowa. links to published first nesting record articles from Iowa Bird Life.

  • IBL articleBlack-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Canada Goose
  • Trumpeter Swan
  • Wood Duck
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Gadwall
  • American Wigeon
  • Mallard
  • American Black Duck
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Canvasback
  • Redhead
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Bufflehead
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Ruddy Duck
  • Northern Bobwhite
  • Wild Turkey
  • Ruffed Grouse
  • Greater Prairie-Chicken
  • Gray Partridge
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • IBL articleHorned Grebe
  • Red-necked Grebe
  • Eared Grebe
  • Western Grebe
  • Rock Pigeon
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • Passenger Pigeon
  • IBL articleWhite-winged Dove
  • Mourning Dove
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Black-billed Cuckoo
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Chuck-will's-widow
  • Eastern Whip-poor-will
  • Chimney Swift
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  • King Rail
  • Virginia Rail
  • Sora
  • Common Gallinule
  • American Coot
  • Sandhill Crane
  • Whooping Crane
  • IBL articleBlack-necked Stilt
  • IBL articleAmerican Avocet
  • Killdeer
  • Piping Plover
  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Marbled Godwit
  • American Woodcock
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Franklin's Gull
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • IBL articleHerring Gull
  • Least Tern
  • Black Tern
  • Forster's Tern
  • Common Loon
  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • IBL articleNeotropic Cormorant
  • American White Pelican
  • American Bittern
  • Least Bittern
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Western Cattle Egret
  • Green Heron
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  • White-faced Ibis
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Osprey
  • Swallow-tailed Kite
  • Northern Harrier
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Cooper's Hawk
  • Bald Eagle
  • Mississippi Kite
  • Red-shouldered Hawk
  • Broad-winged Hawk
  • Swainson's Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • American Barn Owl
  • Eastern Screech-Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Barred Owl
  • Long-eared Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • IBL articleNorthern Saw-whet Owl
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Red-headed Woodpecker
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Hairy Woodpecker
  • Northern Flicker
  • Pileated Woodpecker
  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Great Crested Flycatcher
  • Western Kingbird
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • IBL articleAlder Flycatcher
  • Willow Flycatcher
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Eastern Phoebe
  • Say's Phoebe
  • White-eyed Vireo
  • Bell's Vireo
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Warbling Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Blue Jay
  • Black-billed Magpie
  • American Crow
  • IBL articleFish Crow
  • Black-capped Chickadee
  • Tufted Titmouse
  • Horned Lark
  • Bank Swallow
  • Tree Swallow
  • Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Purple Martin
  • Barn Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Red-breasted Nuthatch
  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Brown Creeper
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  • Rock Wren
  • Bewick's Wren
  • Carolina Wren
  • Northern House Wren
  • Winter Wren
  • Sedge Wren
  • Marsh Wren
  • Gray Catbird
  • Brown Thrasher
  • Northern Mockingbird
  • European Starling
  • Eastern Bluebird
  • Veery
  • Wood Thrush
  • American Robin
  • House Sparrow
  • Eurasian Tree Sparrow
  • House Finch
  • Red Crossbill
  • Pine Siskin
  • American Goldfinch
  • Grasshopper Sparrow
  • Lark Sparrow
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • IBL articleClay-colored Sparrow
  • Field Sparrow
  • Vesper Sparrow
  • Henslow's Sparrow
  • Savannah Sparrow
  • Song Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • Spotted Towhee
  • Eastern Towhee
  • Yellow-breasted Chat
  • Yellow-headed Blackbird
  • Bobolink
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Western Meadowlark
  • Orchard Oriole
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Ovenbird
  • Worm-eating Warbler
  • Louisiana Waterthrush
  • Golden-winged Warbler
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • Kentucky Warbler
  • Common Yellowthroat
  • Hooded Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Cerulean Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Pine Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler
  • Summer Tanager
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Dickcissel