Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Fork-tailed Flycatcher - 2007-52
© Jay Gilliam

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.

5 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  
2002-05 Eurasian Wigeon25-27 Feb 2002Swan LakeJohnson5
2004-11 Eurasian Wigeon27 Mar 2004Cone MarshLouisa1
2007-AA Eurasian Wigeon27 Mar 2004Cone MarshLouisa1
2008-15 Eurasian Wigeon14 April 2008Swan LakeJohnson1
2017-04 Eurasian Wigeon17 Apr 2017 Woodbury2
2021-09 Eurasian Wigeon14 Mar 2021Lock and dam 14Scott5
2021-11 Eurasian Wigeon27 Mar 2021Markham's Pond Wildlife AreaMitchell1
2022-05 Eurasian Wigeon19 Mar 2022Rice Lake State ParkWinnebago1