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

• Records
• Records Summary
• Records by Species
• Records by Year
• Records by Location
• Pre-2000 Records
• Published Annual Committee Reports
• Status & Distribution
• Species Recorded by Year
• Species Status
• Published Notes
• Nesting Species
• Other Reports
• New Species to State List
• Records Not Reviewed by Committee

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.

Select Species - * indicates not on state list Other (new to Iowa) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck Taiga Bean-Goose Tundra Bean-Goose Brant Garganey Eurasian Wigeon Mottled Duck King Eider Common Eider Harlequin Duck Barrow's Goldeneye Sharp-tailed Grouse Greater Prairie-Chicken Red-necked Grebe Western Grebe Clark's Grebe Eurasian Collared-Dove Passenger Pigeon Inca Dove Common Ground Dove White-winged Dove Groove-billed Ani Mexican Violetear Anna's Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Broad-billed Hummingbird King Rail Virginia Rail Purple Gallinule Yellow Rail Black Rail Limpkin Whooping Crane Black-necked Stilt Snowy Plover Whimbrel Eskimo Curlew Long-billed Curlew Bar-tailed Godwit Hudsonian Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Ruff Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper Dunlin Least Sandpiper American Woodcock Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger Thick-billed Murre Long-billed Murrelet Ancient Murrelet Black-legged Kittiwake Ivory Gull Bonaparte's Gull Black-headed Gull Little Gull Ross's Gull Laughing Gull Black-tailed Gull Heermann's Gull Short-billed Gull California Gull Iceland Gull Slaty-backed Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Arctic Tern Royal Tern Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Yellow-billed Loon Wood Stork Magnificent Frigatebird Brown Booby Anhinga Neotropic Cormorant Brown Pelican Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret Black-crowned Night Heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Black Vulture Osprey White-tailed Kite Swallow-tailed Kite Sharp-shinned Hawk American Goshawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Ferruginous Hawk American Barn Owl Northern Hawk Owl Burrowing Owl Great Gray Owl Boreal Owl Lewis's Woodpecker Acorn Woodpecker Red-breasted Sapsucker Black-backed Woodpecker Crested Caracara Gyrfalcon Prairie Falcon Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Fork-tailed Flycatcher Western Wood-Pewee Eastern Wood-Pewee Alder Flycatcher Western Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Say's Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Northern Shrike Canada Jay Pinyon Jay Clark's Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie Fish Crow Common Raven Boreal Chickadee Violet-green Swallow Cave Swallow Bohemian Waxwing Pygmy Nuthatch Rock Wren Bewick's Wren Northern House Wren Pacific Wren Curve-billed Thrasher Sage Thrasher Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Veery Swainson's Thrush Varied Thrush Eurasian Tree Sparrow American Pipit Sprague's Pipit Brambling Evening Grosbeak Pine Grosbeak Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch Purple Finch Hoary Redpoll Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Lesser Goldfinch Chestnut-collared Longspur Smith's Longspur Black-throated Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Dark-eyed Junco White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow LeConte's Sparrow Nelson's Sparrow Baird's Sparrow Green-tailed Towhee Eastern Meadowlark Hooded Oriole Bullock's Oriole Baltimore Oriole Scott's Oriole Brewer's Blackbird Worm-eating Warbler Northern Waterthrush Blue-winged Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Swainson's Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Connecticut Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler Mourning Warbler Cerulean Warbler Pine Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Prairie Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler Summer Tanager Western Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Painted Bunting Dickcissel *Bar-headed Goose *Whooper Swan *Tufted Duck *Smew *Masked Duck *Black-chinned Hummingbird *Costa's Hummingbird *Calypte sp. *Selasphorus sp. *Caribbean Coot *Jaeger sp. *Yellow-legged Gull *Cook Inlet Gull (GWGU x HERG) *Arctic Loon *Frigatebird sp. *Northern Gannet *Great Cormorant *Plegadis sp. *Common Black Hawk *Harris's Hawk *Gray Hawk *Ringed Kingfisher *Williamson's Sapsucker *Red-naped Sapsucker *Three-toed Woodpecker *Monk Parakeet *Gray Flycatcher *Black Phoebe *Cassin's Vireo *Solitary Vireo sp. *Steller's Jay *Hooded Crow *Carolina Chickadee *Mountain Chickadee *Bridled Titmouse *Brown-headed Nuthatch *European Goldfinch *McCown's Longspur *McKay's Bunting *Sutton's Warbler *Kirtland's Warbler *Audubon's Warbler *Indigo X Lazuli Bunting

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.