Birds of Iowa

 

Welcome to the Birds of Iowa website. This site contains photos and information about birds I have photographed in Iowa and other places. I have also added photos of amphibians, bats, flowers, fungi, mammals, salamanders, snails, snakes and turtles.

Non-Iowa Birds
This is a list of birds seen in other states that are not included in the Iowa Checklist.
Anatidae

Fulvous Whistling Duck
Mottled Duck
Eurasian Wigeon
Harlequin Duck
Barrow's Goldeneye
Masked Duck
Common Eider

Cracidae

Plain Chachalaca


Phasianidae

Spruce Grouse
Dusky Grouse
Greater Sage Grouse
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Sharp-tailed Grouse

Odontophoridae

Scaled Quail
California Quail
Montezuma Quail
Gambel's Quail

Gaviidae

Arctic Loon
Yellow-billed Loon

Podicipedidae

Least Grebe

Procellariidae

Northern Fulmar
Pink-footed Shearwater
Buller's Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater

Sulidae

Brown Booby
Gannet

Pelecanidae

Brown Pelican

Phalacrocoracidae

Neotropic Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant

Anhingidae

Anhinga

Ardeidae

Reddish Egret
Tricolored Heron

Threskiornithinae

White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill

Cathartidae - Vultures

Black Vulture


Ciconiidae

Wood Stork

Cathartidae

Black Vulture

Accipitridae

Swallow-tailed Kite
White-tailed Kite
Snail Kite
Common Black-Hawk
Harris' Hawk
Gray Hawk
White-tailed Hawk

Falconidae

Crested Caracara
Aplomado Falcon
Gyrfalcon

Rallidae

Clapper Rail
Purple Gallinule

Aramidae

Limpkin

Gruidae

Whooping Crane

Charadriidae

Wilson's Plover
Mountain Plover

Haematopodidae

Black Oystercatcher
American Oystercatcher

Scolopacidae

Long-billed Curlew
Wandering Tattler
Black Turnstone
Surfbird
Purple Sandpiper

Laridae

Parasitic Jaeger
Ivory Gull
Ross's Gull

Heerman's Gull
Western Gull
Elegant Tern
Sandwich Tern
Royal Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Black Skimmer


Alcidae

Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Marbled Murrelet
Cassin's Auklet
Rhinoceros auklet
Tufted Puffin

Columbidae

Band-tailed Pigeon
Red-billed Pigeon
Ringed Turtle Dove
Inca Dove
White-tipped Dove
Common Ground Dove

Psittacidae

Monk Parakeet
Red-crowned Parrot
Black Hooded Parakeet

Cuculidae

Greater Roadrunner
Groove-billed Ani

Strigidae

Western Screech Owl
Whiskered Screech Owl
Spotted Owl
Great Gray Owl
Northern Hawk Owl
Northern Pygmy-Owl
Elf Owl
Boreal Owl
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

Caprimulgidae

Lesser Nighthawk
Buff-collared Nightjar
Pauraque
Common Poorwill

Apodidae

Black Swift
White-collared Swift

Trochilidae

Broad-billed Hummingbird
White-eared Hummingbird
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Berylline Hummingbird
Blue-throated Hunningbird
Magnificent Hummingbird
Lucifer Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna's Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird

Trogonidae

Elegant Trogon

Alcedinidae

Ringed Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher

Picidae

Lewis' Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Williamson's Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Strickland's Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Black-backed Woodpecker

Tyrannidae

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Greater Peewee
Western Wood Peewee
Hammond's Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Buff-breasted Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Great Kisadee
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Rose-throated Becard
Tropical Kingbird
Couch's Kingbird
Cassin's Kingbird
Thick-billed Kingbird
Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Vireonidae

Gray Vireo
Plumbeous Vireo
Hutton's Vireo

Corvidae

Gray Jay
Steller's Jay
Green Jay
Brown Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Mexican Jay
Pinyon Jay
Yellow-billed Magpie
Clark's Nutcracker
Fish Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven

Hirundinidae

Violet-green Swallow
Cave Swallow







Paridae

Carolina Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Mexican Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Boreal Chickadee
Bridled Titmouse
Oak Titmouse
Black-crested Titmouse


Remizidae

Verdin

Aegithalidae

Bushtit

Sittidae

Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch

Troglodytidae

Cactus Wren
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren

Cinclidae

American Dipper

Sylviidae

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Turdidae

Western Bluebird
Clay-colored Thrush
White-throated Thrush

Timaliidae

Wrentit

Mimidae

Sage Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher
Bendire's Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
Crissal Thrasher

Motacillidae

Sprague's Pipit

Ptilogonatidae

Phainopepla

Peucedramidae

Olive Warbler

Parulidae

Swainson's Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Lucy's Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Golden-cheeked Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Grace's Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Red-faced Warbler
Painted Redstart

Thraupidae

Hepatic Tanager
Flame-colored Tanager

Emberizidae

Olive Sparrow
Green-tailed Towhee
California Towhee
Canyon Towhee
Abert's Towhee
Black-throated Sparrow
Botteri's Sparrow
Cassin's Sparrow
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Five-striped Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Sage Sparrow
Bachman's Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Golden Crowned Sparrow
Yellow-eyed Junco
McCown's Longspur
Chestnut-collared Longspur

Cardinalidae

Pyrrhuloxia
Painted Bunting
Varied Bunting

Icteridae

Boat-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Altamira Oriole
Hooded Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
Audubon's Oriole
Scott's Oriole

Fringillidae

Pine Grosbeak
Cassin's Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Evening Grosbeak
Hoary Redpoll