Reports of Rare Birds

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

Crested Caracara - 2002-30
© Richard Lampe

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.

6 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.

Record	Species	Dates	Location	County	Docs
1993-CL	Purple Gallinule	< 1870	unknown	Black Hawk	1
1993-CM	Purple Gallinule	< 1879	unknown	Black Hawk	1
1993-CN	Purple Gallinule	1891	unknown	Floyd	1
1993-CO	Purple Gallinule	< 1907	unknown	Black Hawk	1
1993-CP	Purple Gallinule	9 Sep 1915	Charles City	Floyd	1
1993-CQ	Purple Gallinule	SP 1915	Des Moines	Polk	1
1993-CR	Purple Gallinule	13 May 1937	Cedar Falls	Black Hawk	1
1993-CS	Purple Gallinule	7 May 1964	Cone Marsh	Louisa	1
1993-CT	Purple Gallinule	SU 1974	Ottumwa	Wapello	1
1993-CU	Purple Gallinule	10 May 1975	Promise City	Wayne	1
1993-CV	Purple Gallinule	22 May 1978	Ames	Story	2
1983-02	Purple Gallinule	17 - 28 May 1983	South Amana	Iowa	6
1993-HV	Purple Gallinule	24 May - 28 Jun 1988	Burlington	Des Moines	3
1994-11	Purple Gallinule	24-29 May 1994	Sweet Marsh	Bremer	6
2005-AB	Purple Gallinule	early 1900s		Kossuth	1