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.

5 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   
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