Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Mexican Violetear - 2006-43
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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  
2007-AL Whooping Crane10 Jun 1881Iowa CityJohnson1
2006-AA Whooping Crane7 Sep 1888near AlgonaKossuth1
2006-21 Whooping Crane6-26 May 2006Lande River WMAWinnebago1
2006-42 Whooping Crane9 Sep 2006Myre SloughWinnebago1
2006-57 Whooping Crane28 Nov 2006LarrabeeCherokee1
2009-33 Whooping Crane18 Oct 2009n. of CharitonLucas1
2012-48 Whooping Crane25 Nov 2012Sioux CityWoodbury1
2018-35 Whooping Crane5 Sep 20183 miles north of FentonKossuth1
2019-04 Whooping Crane7 Apr 2019 near Joyce on I35Worth1
2021-56 Whooping Crane6 Oct 2021Green Island Wildlife Management AreaJackson1
2022-35 Whooping Crane23 May 2022Horseshoe Lake (Spirit Lake, IA)Dickinson1
2023-01 Whooping Crane1 Apr 2023Green Island WMAJackson3