birds of iowa

Birds of Iowa Checklist
Below is a list of birds as shown on the Iowa Field Checklist generated by the Iowa Ornithologist's Union. I have not seen all of these birds in Iowa. Some were seen and photographed in other states.
Iowa Field Checklist - PDF
Anatidae – Ducks, Swans, Geese Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Canada Goose Mute Swan Trumpeter Swan Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Black Scoter Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Long-tailed Duck Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Black-bellied Whistling Duck Brant Phasanidae – Pheasants, Grouse, Quail and Turkeys Ring-necked Pheasant Gray Partridge Ruffed Grouse Greater Prairie-Chicken Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Gaviidae – Loons Red-throated Loon Pacific Loon Common Loon Podicipedidae - Grebes Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clarke's Grebe Pelecanidae - Pelicans American White Pelican Acrocoracidae - Cormorants Double-crested Cormorant Ardeidae – Herons, Egrets and Bitterns Little Blue Heron Snowy Egret Great Blue Heron Great Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Least Bittern American Bittern Threskiornithidae - Ibis White-faced Ibis Cathartidae - Vultures Turkey Vulture Accipitridae – Osprey, Hawks, Kites and Eagles Osprey Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Golden Eagle Falconidae - Falcons American Kestrel Merlin Prairie Falcon Peregrine Falcon Rallidae – Rails and Coots Yellow Rail King Rail Virginia Rail Sora Common Moorhen American Coot Gruidae - Cranes Sandhill Crane Charadriidae – Plovers American Golden-Plover Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Piping Plover Snowy Plover Recurvirostridae – Avocets and Stilts Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Scolopacidae - Sandpipers American Woodcock Wilson's Snipe Marbled Godwit Hudsonian Godwit Whimbrel Upland Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Willet Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot	Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Sanderling Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Baird’s Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Ruff Red Phalarope Laridae – Gulls and Terns Ring-billed Gull Glaucous Gull Iceland Gull Thayer's Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Bonaparte's Gull Franklin's Gull Sabine's Gull Laughing Gull California Gull Mew Gull Great Black-backed Gull Black-legged Kittiwake Black Tern Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Least Tern Columbidae – Pigeons and Doves Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove White-winged Dove Cuculidae – Cuckoos Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Tytonidae – Barn Owls Barn Owl Strigidae – Owls Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Barred Owl Burrowing Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Northern Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Caprimulgidae – Nightjars Common Nighthawk Chuck-will's-widow Whip-poor-will Apodidae - Swifts Chimney Swift Trochilidae – Hummingbirds Ruby-throated Hummingbird Alcedinidae – Kingfisher Belted Kingfisher Picidae – Woodpeckers Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Tyrannidae – Tyrant Flycatchers Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Scrissor-tailed Flycatcher Laniidae – Shrikes Loggerhead Shrike Northern Shrike Vireonidae – Vireos Bell's Vireo White-eyed Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Warbling Vireo Corvidae – Crows and Jays Blue Jay American Crow Black-billed Magpie Alaudidae Larks Horned Lark Hirundinidae – Swallows Tree Swallow Purple Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Paridae – Chickadees and Titmouse Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Sittidae – Nuthatches Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Certhiidae – Creepers Brown Creeper	Troglodytidae – Wrens Sedge Wren Marsh Wren Carolina Wren Winter Wren House Wren Bewick's Wren Regulidae – Kinglets Ruby-crowned Kinglet Golden-crowned Kinglet Sylviidae – Gnatcatchers Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Turdidae – Thrushes Varied Thrush Eastern Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Mountain Bluebird Mimidae – Mockingbirds and Thrashes Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Sturnidae – Starlings European Starling Motacillidae - Pipits American Pipit Bombycillidae – Waxwings Bohemian Waxwing Cedar Waxwing Parulidae – Warblers Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler TennesseeWarbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated BlueWarbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler PineWarbler PrairieWarbler PalmWarbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-whiteWarbler American Redstart ProthonotaryWarbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Thraupidae - Tanagers Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Western Tanager Emberizidae - Sparrows Lapland Longspur Smith's Longspur Snow Bunting Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Savannah Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Eastern Towhee Spotted Towhee LeConte's Sparrow Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Cardinalidae – Cardinals and Buntings Dickcissel Rose-breasted Grosbeak Northern Cardinal Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Icteridae – Blackbirds, Grackles and Orioles Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole Yellow-headed Blackbird Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Western Meadowlark Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Rusty Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bobolink Fringillidae – Siskins, Crossbills and Finches Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Common Redpoll Purple Finch House Finch Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Passeridae – Old World Sparrows House Sparrow Eurasian Tree Sparrow