Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Mottled Duck - 2021-60
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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  
1981-AS Sharp-tailed Sandpiper3 Oct 1974Coralville Res.Johnson1
1988-20 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper30 Sep 1988Credit Island, DavenportScott2
1990-29 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper14 Oct 1990Coralville Res.Johnson5
1994-25 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper15 May 1994Riverton WAFremont3
1995-43 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper13 Oct 1995Casey Barrow AccessDes Moines2
2012-37 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper25 Sep 2012Fox River WetlandsVan Buren1
2013-34 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper10 Nov 2013Otter Creek Marsh Tama5
2022-53 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper16 Sep 2022Hendrickson Marsh (story county)Story1