Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Heermann's Gull - 2019-19
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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.

21 total accepted records; current status is Casual
Not accepted records are shown in red. The camera icon denotes photos and the news icon provides further details on the record.

RecordSpeciesDatesLocationCountyDocs  
2003-03 Little Gull21-22 Apr 2003Coralville Res.Johnson3
2003-06 Little Gull29 Apr 2003Spirit LakeDickinson1
2005-52 Little Gull3 Sep 2005Welch L.Dickinson1
2006-51 Little Gull11 Oct 2006Lake RathbunAppanoose1
2007-40 Little Gull2-6 Sep 2007Welch LakeDickinson3
2008-35 Little Gull4 Nov 2008Saylorville Res.Polk1
2013-35 Little Gull16 Nov 2013Red Rock ReservoirMarion1
2014-40 Little Gull9 Aug 2014Deere DikeDubuque2
2014-45 Little Gull7 Sep 2014Pat and Jack Scenic OverlookScott1
2014-48 Little Gull17-18 Oct 2014Lake MacBrideJohnson2
2016-35 Little Gull3 Sep 2016Jester Park, Saylorville ReservoirPolk1
2016-43 Little Gull15 Sep 2016Red Rock ReservoirMarion1
2017-25 Little Gull28 Sep 2017Lake Red RockMarion1
2017-28 Little Gull14 Oct 2017Runnells Wildlife AreaPolk1
2020-40 Little Gull30 Aug 2020Union Slough NWRKossuth2
2020-41 Little Gull6 Sep 2020Little Swan Lake, Dickenson County west sideDickinson1
2020-45 Little Gull19 Sep 2020Scales Point - Coralville ReservoirJohnson5
2020-46 Little Gull2 Oct 2020Sugar Bottom WAJohnson1
2020-47 Little Gull11 Oct 2020Pool 15, in Iowa waters, viewed from Butterworth Parkway Moline IllinoisScott1
2021-13 Little Gull24 Apr 2021Saylorville ReservoirPolk1
2021-15 Little Gull26 Apr 2021Saylorville ReservoirPolk1
2022-73 Little Gull24 Aug 2022Red Rock ReservoirMarion1