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.

6 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   
1993-EP Long-tailed Jaeger15 Jun 1907near Lone TreeJohnson1
1994-37 Long-tailed Jaeger4-11 Sep 1994Tomahawk M./ Black Hawk L.Sac11
2007-51 Long-tailed Jaeger19 Nov 2007near Iowa FallsHardin1
2007-54 Long-tailed Jaeger11 Sep 2007Saylorville Res.Polk2
2014-43 Long-tailed Jaeger31 Aug-1 Sep 2014Whitebreast Point, Red Rock ReservoirMarion6
2014-46 Long-tailed Jaeger5-9 Oct 2014White Breast Point at Lake Red Rock ReservoirMarion1
2021-52 Long-tailed Jaeger4 Sep 2021Saylorville ReservoirPolk7