Reports of Rare Birds

These reports look at Iowa rare birds records with different lenses.
Mountain Bluebird - 2019-40
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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  
1999-19 Arctic Tern18 Aug 1999Saylorville Res.Polk3
1999-20 Arctic Tern19 Aug 1999Saylorville Res.Polk3
2010-33 Arctic Tern20-29 Nov 2010Lake MacbrideJohnson6
2012-36 Arctic Tern22 Sep 2012Sandpiper Beach, Saylorville ReservoirPolk3
2016-39 Arctic Tern30 Oct 2016Spirit Lake/The GradeDickinson2
2017-06 Arctic Tern8 May 2017Lost Island Lake in Ruthven Palo Alto1