Reports of Rare Birds

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. Select a species to get started and then explore some of the other reports in the menu bar. Note that many regularly seen species may have only a few records for out-of-season sightings.

19 total accepted records; current status is Accidental
Not accepted records are shown in red. The camera icon denotes photos and this icon provides further details on the record. links to published articles from Iowa Bird Life.

RecordSpeciesDatesLocationCountyDocs   
1988-02 Snowy Plover6-7 May 1988Bays BranchGuthrie0
1988-03 Snowy Plover22-25 May 1988Dunbar SI.Greene0
1990-10 Snowy Plover28 Apr 19902 n. of BurlingtonDes Moines0
1992-18 Snowy Plover10 May 1992Riverton A.Fremont0
1992-19 Snowy Plover13 May 1992Riverton AreaFremont0
1996-14 Snowy Plover3 May 1996Saylorville Res.Polk0
1997-25 Snowy Plover14 Jun 1997Black Hawk LakeSac0
2000-14 Snowy Plover6 May 2000Sedan Bottoms WMAAppanoose2
2004-20 Snowy Plover8 May 2004Hawkeye WAJohnson3
2005-61 Snowy Plover22 Aug 2005L. RathbunAppanoose1
2006-25 Snowy Plover10 May 2006Rathbun Res.Appanoose2
2007-26 Snowy Plover2 May 2007Lake RathbunAppanoose2
2008-28 Snowy Plover3 September 2008Hawkeye WAJohnson1
2009-08 Snowy Plover24 April 2009Dairy PondWoodbury1
2009-09 Snowy Plover25 - 26 April 2009Saylorville Res.Polk4
2011-21 Snowy Plover22 - 23 May 2011Riverton WAFremont1
2016-06 Snowy Plover26 Apr 201641.781512, -93.764322Polk2
2016-17 Snowy Plover30 May 2016Pleasant Creek RABenton2
2020-32 Snowy Plover27 Jun - 9 Jul 2020Red Rock ReservoirMarion1
2022-09 Snowy Plover26 Apr 20222678 Dallas Ave, Salix, IA 51052Woodbury1