Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Northern Hawk Owl - 2005-09
© Harsha Jayawardena

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 Casual
Not accepted records are shown in red. The camera icon denotes photos and the news icon provides further details on the record.

RecordSpeciesDatesLocationCountyDocs  
2000-09 Mountain Bluebird15 Apr 2000East of PetersonClay1
2000-39 Mountain Bluebird10 Dec 2000northwest of RedfieldDallas1
2001-06 Mountain Bluebird9 Mar 2001 O'Brien1
2004-09 Mountain Bluebird28 Feb 2004Black Hawk County ParkBlack Hawk1
2009-06 Mountain Bluebird3 - 4 Apr 2009Camp MitigwaBoone1
2011-03 Mountain Bluebird8 Jan 2011Little Sioux RiverCherokee1
2013-09 Mountain Bluebird9 Mar 2013Maffitt ReservoirPolk3
2014-04 Mountain Bluebird21 Mar 2014Otter Creek LoopLouisa1
2018-06 Mountain Bluebird13-15 Feb 2018 O'Brien2
2018-17 Mountain Bluebird7-11 Apr 2018Buck AveDavis2
2019-40 Mountain Bluebird13 Dec 2019Deere DikeDubuque8
2020-02 Mountain Bluebird5 Jan 2020Hitchcock Nature CenterPottawattamie1