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.

4 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  
2005-01 Great Gray Owl6 Jan 2005near Smith LakeKossuth1
2005-04 Great Gray Owl16-17 Jan 2005near MadridBoone2
2005-08 Great Gray Owl14 Feb 2005JesupBuchanan1
2005-10 Great Gray Owl16 Feb 2005west of MilfordDickinson1
2005-15 Great Gray Owl6 Apr 2005DecorahWinneshiek1
2015-AA Great Gray Owl26 Jan 2005Iowa City, north side, by Haywood Drive ApartmentsJohnson1
2019-01 Great Gray Owl18 Jan 2019Council BluffsPottawattamie1