Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
White-tailed Kite - 2017-05
© Larry Reis

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.

8 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  
1988-10 Yellow-billed Loon13 Nov 1988Clear LakeCerro Gordo1
1999-04 Yellow-billed Loon18 Apr 1999Clear LakeCerro Gordo1
1999-30 Yellow-billed Loon2-21 Dec 1999Little Wall Lake (also Hallett's Quarry, Story)Hamilton7
2006-56 Yellow-billed Loon13 Nov 2006Spirit L.Dickinson2
2007-58 Yellow-billed Loon28-30 Nov 2007Saylorville Res.Polk4
2008-26 Yellow-billed Loon15-19 July 2008between Traer and GladbrookTama1
2020-AE Yellow-billed Loon11 May 2013Martin Lake, Waterloo, ABlack Hawk1
2017-34 Yellow-billed Loon7 Nov 2017State Park Beach, Clear Lake, IACerro Gordo2
2018-18 Yellow-billed Loon24 May 2018Jensen MarshMadison3
2019-29 Yellow-billed Loon12 Aug - 30 Sep 2019County Road D46 at East pullout on top of the Brushy Creek dam.Webster8
2020-66 Yellow-billed Loon14 Dec 2020Big Creek LakePolk3
2022-06 Yellow-billed Loon1 Apr 2022Big Creek State ParkPolk1
2023-03 Yellow-billed Loon21 Apr 2023Clear Lake State ParkCerro Gordo1