Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch - 1993-GD
© Peter C. Petersen

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  
1987-AA Lesser Goldfinch16 Jan 1964Sioux CityWoodbury1
1999-23 Lesser Goldfinch5 Aug 1999RockfordFloyd1
2020-38 Lesser Goldfinch22 Aug 2020509 Cedar StreetBuchanan1
2020-61 Lesser Goldfinch22 Nov 2020Residence near Crapo Park BurlingtonDes Moines6
2021-03 Lesser Goldfinch10 Jan 2021West Des Moines, 29th St. between Locust St. and Boulder Dr.Polk1
2022-08 Lesser Goldfinch23 Apr 20221246 Lundy Bridge Road, DecorahWinneshiek1