Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Wood Stork - 2017-22
© Doug Harr

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.

8 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  
2000-26 Black-headed Gull7-8 Oct 2000Spirit LakeDickinson2
2001-28 Black-headed Gull6-20 Oct 2001Spirit LakeDickinson2
2002-31 Black-headed Gull14 Sep 2002Spirit LakeDickinson3
2003-17 Black-headed Gull2 Aug 2003Spirit LakeDickinson1
2005-38 Black-headed Gull16 Jul - 26 Aug 2005Spirit LakeDickinson3
2006-10 Black-headed Gull1 Apr 2006Pool 9, Mississippi RAllamakee1
2006-46 Black-headed Gull16 Sep 2006Spirit L.Dickinson1
2015-31 Black-headed Gull28 Nov 2015east pond of Bob Shetler area below Saylorville damPolk1
2016-32 Black-headed Gull15 Mar 2016Between Gingham Inn and the Spirit Lake Fish Hatchery. North end of East Okoboji by the boat ramp.Dickinson1