Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.

Western Tanager - 2019-06
© Kathi Cunningham

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.

14 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.

Record	Species	Dates	Location	County	Docs
2006-AB	Gyrfalcon	19 Mar 1992	Iowa Lake WMA	Emmet	1
2000-41	Gyrfalcon	21-22 Dec 2000	Along Highway 30 between U and V Avenues	Boone	3
2001-03	Gyrfalcon	3 Mar 2001	Union Hills WMA	Cerro Gordo	1
2001-05	Gyrfalcon	9 Mar 2001	Hartley	O'Brien	1
2001-19	Gyrfalcon	29 Nov 2001	south of Spencer	Clay	1
2001-32	Gyrfalcon	8 Dec 2001	northwest of Dan Green Slough	Clay	1
2009-AA	Gyrfalcon	19 Jan 2001	Waterman Twp.	O'Brien	1
2004-51	Gyrfalcon	25 Oct 2004	Hitchcock NA	Pottawattamie	1
2005-58	Gyrfalcon	31 Oct 2005	near Janesville	Bremer	1
2007-02	Gyrfalcon	28 Jan - 5 Feb 2007	near Luther	Boone	5
2009-34	Gyrfalcon	21 Oct 2009	Hitchcock NA	Pottawattamie	1
2012-57	Gyrfalcon	5 Dec 2012	Saylorville Reservoir	Polk	1
2014-01	Gyrfalcon	1 Jan 2014	2 miles south of Joice	Worth	1
2014-51	Gyrfalcon	11 Nov 2014	Hitchcock Nature Center	Pottawattamie	1
2014-52	Gyrfalcon	16 Nov 2014	Yellow Ave between 470th St. and B53	O'Brien	1
2014-53	Gyrfalcon	16 Oct 2014	Kellerton	Ringgold	1
2017-36	Gyrfalcon	29 Nov 2017	70th ST Saratoga IA	Howard	1
2017-42	Gyrfalcon	10 Dec 2017		Sac	1
2019-33	Gyrfalcon	31 Oct 2019		Pottawattamie	1
2020-65	Gyrfalcon	27 Nov 2020	Red Rock Reservoir	Marion	1
2021-02	Gyrfalcon	9 Jan 2021	2526 Esther Ave, Schaller, Iowa	Sac	1