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435 species in the Iowa dex: 131 Common, 153 Uncommon, 131 Rare, 20 Legendary. Tiers come from how often people record each species here; Legendary ones and protected species are never shown at their real location.

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Legendary

The rarest finds here: 150 points each. Their locations are always protected.

#018 🦌 Ermine

#035 🐦 Cooper's Hawk

#045 🐦 Chukar · introduced

#075 🐦 Burrowing Owl

#084 🐦 Bohemian Waxwing

#103 🐦 Muscovy Duck

#158 🐦 Black Vulture

#160 🐦 Common Raven

#162 🐦 Yellow Rail

#187 🐦 White Ibis

#222 🐦 Bullock's Oriole

#232 🐦 Short-billed Gull

#287 🐦 Helmeted Guineafowl

#317 🐦 Black-headed Grosbeak

#353 🐦 Rock Wren

#359 🐦 American Yellow Warbler

#390 🐦 Lesser Goldfinch

#399 🐦 Parasitic Jaeger

#470 🦎 Yellow mud turtle

#489 🦎 Massasauga

Rare

131

#001 🦌 North American Hoary Bat

#009 🦌 Plains pocket gopher

#011 🦌 Silver-haired Bat

#012 🦌 Red Bat

#016 🦌 Meadow vole

#017 🦌 House Mouse · introduced

#022 🦌 North American Deermouse

#024 🦌 Brown Rat · introduced

#028 🦌 Cinereus Shrew

#032 🦌 American Badger

#034 🐦 Common Redpoll

#039 🐦 Western Grebe

#040 🐦 Northern Saw-whet Owl

#048 🐦 Leconte's Sparrow

#049 🐦 Nelson's Sparrow

#053 🐦 Mottled Duck

#058 🐦 Greylag Goose

#060 🐦 Swan Goose

#065 🐦 Chuck-will's-widow

#066 🐦 Eastern Whip-poor-will

#067 🐦 Golden Eagle

#068 🐦 Limpkin

#072 🐦 Ruddy Turnstone

#073 🐦 Short-eared Owl

#085 🐦 Ruffed Grouse

#086 🐦 American Bittern

#090 🐦 Snowy Owl

#092 🐦 Cattle Egret

#095 🐦 Barrow's Goldeneye

#100 🐦 Ferruginous hawk

#101 🐦 Swainson's hawk

#107 🐦 Smith's Longspur

#112 🐦 Red Knot

#116 🐦 Western Sandpiper

#119 🐦 Ruff

#121 🐦 Buff-breasted Sandpiper

#136 🐦 Piping Plover

#147 🐦 Long-tailed Duck

#161 🐦 Fish Crow

#168 🐦 Mute Swan · introduced

#170 🐦 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

#176 🐦 Little blue heron

#177 🐦 Snowy egret

#179 🐦 Swallow-tailed Kite

#189 🐦 Brewer's Blackbird

#190 🐦 Falco atricapillus

#192 🐦 Prairie Falcon

#199 🐦 Common Moorhen

#201 🐦 Yellow-billed Loon

#203 🐦 Pacific Loon

#204 🐦 Red-throated Loon

#208 🐦 Whooping Crane

#213 🐦 Worm-eating Warbler

#214 🐦 Evening Grosbeak

#215 🐦 Black-necked stilt

#217 🐦 Harlequin Duck

#218 🐦 Little Gull

#227 🐦 Mississippi Kite

#228 🐦 Varied Thrush

#231 🐦 Loggerhead Shrike

#233 🐦 California Gull

#238 🐦 Iceland Gull

#240 🐦 Glaucous Gull

#241 🐦 Great Black-backed Gull

#248 🐦 Laughing Gull

#253 🐦 Marbled Godwit

#254 🐦 Hudsonian Godwit

#257 🐦 Red Crossbill

#258 🐦 Two-barred Crossbill

#268 🐦 Black Scoter

#269 🐦 White-winged Scoter

#270 🐦 Surf Scoter

#278 🐦 Northern Mockingbird

#281 🐦 Townsend's Solitaire

#286 🐦 Whimbrel

#288 🐦 Yellow-crowned Night Heron

#289 🐦 Black-crowned night heron

#290 🐦 Connecticut Warbler

#300 🐦 Lazuli Bunting

#302 🐦 Painted Bunting

#307 🐦 Grey Partridge · introduced

#311 🐦 Neotropic cormorant

#312 🐦 Red Phalarope

#313 🐦 Red-necked Phalarope

#318 🐦 Black-billed Magpie

#319 🐦 Pine Grosbeak

#322 🐦 Spotted Towhee

#323 🐦 Western Tanager

#326 🐦 Roseate spoonbill

#328 🐦 White-faced Ibis

#329 🐦 Glossy Ibis

#331 🐦 Grey Plover

#333 🐦 Red-necked Grebe

#334 🐦 Black-necked Grebe

#345 🐦 King Rail

#346 🐦 Virginia Rail

#352 🐦 Black-legged kittiwake

#355 🐦 Say's Phoebe

#358 🐦 Rufous Hummingbird

#361 🐦 Black-throated Blue Warbler

#364 🐦 Hooded Warbler

#366 🐦 Prairie Warbler

#373 🐦 Pine Warbler

#379 🐦 Mountain Bluebird

#384 🐦 Cinnamon Teal

#402 🐦 Common Tern

#404 🐦 Least Tern

#414 🐦 Bewick's Wren

#425 🐦 Greater Prairie Chicken

#426 🐦 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

#429 🐦 Western Kingbird

#430 🐦 American Barn Owl

#436 🐦 White-eyed Vireo

#441 🐦 Sabine's Gull

#442 🐦 White-winged Dove

#449 🐸 Tiger Salamander

#459 🦎 Timber rattlesnake

#460 🦎 Prairie Rattlesnake

#464 🦎 Blanding's turtle

#465 🦎 Wood turtle

#467 🦎 Ouachita map turtle

#468 🦎 False Map Turtle

#469 🦎 Eastern Hognose Snake

#471 🦎 Prairie Kingsnake

#473 🐸 Plains Leopard Frog

#485 🦎 Northern Prairie Skink

#488 🦎 Graham's Crayfish Snake

#492 🦎 Redbelly Snake

#493 🦎 Ornate Box Turtle

#498 🦎 Lined Snake

#499 🦎 Smooth Earth Snake

Uncommon

153

#002 🦌 American bison

#003 🦌 Northern Short-tailed Shrew

#007 🦌 Big Brown Bat

#008 🦌 Domestic Cat · introduced

#010 🦌 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel

#014 🦌 Woodchuck

#015 🦌 Striped Skunk

#020 🦌 Muskrat

#021 🦌 White-footed Mouse

#025 🦌 Eastern Mole

#031 🦌 Red Squirrel

#033 🦌 Red Fox

#036 🐦 Sharp-shinned Hawk

#047 🐦 Grasshopper Sparrow

#050 🐦 Northern Pintail

#055 🐦 American Black Duck

#059 🐦 Snow Goose

#061 🐦 Ross's Goose

#063 🐦 Buff-bellied Pipit

#077 🐦 Redhead

#079 🐦 Greater scaup

#080 🐦 Canvasback

#082 🐦 Upland Sandpiper

#089 🐦 Cackling Goose

#091 🐦 Great Horned Owl

#097 🐦 Rough-legged Buzzard

#098 🐦 Red-shouldered Hawk

#099 🐦 Broad-winged Hawk

#102 🐦 Green Heron

#105 🐦 Lapland Longspur

#109 🐦 Sanderling

#110 🐦 Dunlin

#111 🐦 Baird's Sandpiper

#114 🐦 White-rumped Sandpiper

#115 🐦 Stilt Sandpiper

#118 🐦 Least Sandpiper

#120 🐦 Semipalmated Sandpiper

#125 🐦 Canada Warbler

#126 🐦 Wilson's Warbler

#129 🐦 Veery

#130 🐦 Hermit Thrush

#131 🐦 Grey-cheeked Thrush

#133 🐦 Henslow's Sparrow

#134 🐦 Brown Creeper

#137 🐦 Semipalmated Plover

#139 🐦 Black Tern

#140 🐦 Lark Sparrow

#141 🐦 Common Nighthawk

#142 🐦 Bonaparte's Gull

#145 🐦 Marsh Wren

#146 🐦 Sedge Wren

#148 🐦 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

#149 🐦 Black-billed Cuckoo

#152 🐦 Northern Bobwhite

#156 🐦 Olive-sided Flycatcher

#166 🐦 Tundra Swan

#172 🐦 Bobolink

#181 🐦 Alder Flycatcher

#182 🐦 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

#184 🐦 Willow Flycatcher

#185 🐦 Acadian Flycatcher

#186 🐦 Horned Lark

#188 🐦 Rusty Blackbird

#191 🐦 Merlin

#193 🐦 Peregrine Falcon

#198 🐦 Wilson's Snipe

#202 🐦 Common Loon

#205 🐦 Kentucky Warbler

#206 🐦 Mourning Warbler

#209 🐦 Sandhill Crane

#211 🐦 Purple Finch

#219 🐦 Caspian Tern

#220 🐦 Wood Thrush

#221 🐦 Yellow-breasted Chat

#230 🐦 Northern Shrike

#236 🐦 Lesser Black-backed Gull

#243 🐦 American Herring Gull

#244 🐦 Orange-crowned Warbler

#249 🐦 Franklin's gull

#250 🐦 Short-billed Dowitcher

#251 🐦 Long-billed Dowitcher

#259 🐦 American Wigeon

#263 🐦 Eastern Screech Owl

#274 🐦 Lincoln's Sparrow

#277 🐦 Red-breasted Merganser

#293 🐦 Osprey

#294 🐦 Louisiana Waterthrush

#295 🐦 Northern Waterthrush

#298 🐦 Savannah Sparrow

#299 🐦 Fox Sparrow

#301 🐦 Blue Grosbeak

#314 🐦 Wilson's Phalarope

#324 🐦 Scarlet tanager

#325 🐦 Summer Tanager

#327 🐦 Snow Bunting

#330 🐦 American Golden Plover

#332 🐦 Horned Grebe

#338 🐦 Vesper Sparrow

#339 🐦 Sora

#340 🐦 Purple Martin

#341 🐦 Prothonotary Warbler

#343 🐦 Great-tailed Grackle

#347 🐦 American Avocet

#349 🐦 Golden-crowned Kinglet

#351 🐦 Sand Martin

#356 🐦 American Woodcock

#357 🐦 Ovenbird

#360 🐦 Northern Parula

#362 🐦 Bay-breasted Warbler

#363 🐦 Cerulean Warbler

#367 🐦 Yellow-throated Warbler

#368 🐦 Blackburnian Warbler

#369 🐦 Magnolia Warbler

#370 🐦 Palm Warbler

#371 🐦 Chestnut-sided Warbler

#375 🐦 Blackpoll Warbler

#376 🐦 Cape May Warbler

#378 🐦 Black-throated Green Warbler

#381 🐦 Red-breasted Nuthatch

#388 🐦 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

#389 🐦 Pine Siskin

#393 🐦 Clay-colored Sparrow

#401 🐦 Forster's Tern

#408 🐦 Western Meadowlark

#419 🐦 Greater Yellowlegs

#420 🐦 Willet

#421 🐦 Solitary Sandpiper

#423 🐦 Winter Wren

#431 🐦 Golden-winged Warbler

#432 🐦 Blue-winged Warbler

#433 🐦 Bell's Vireo

#438 🐦 Philadelphia Vireo

#439 🐦 Blue-headed Vireo

#440 🐦 Yellow-headed Blackbird

#447 🐦 Harris's Sparrow

#452 🐸 Woodhouse's Toad

#454 🦎 Spiny softshell turtle

#455 🦎 Six-lined Racerunner

#458 🦎 Eastern Racer

#461 🦎 Ringneck Snake

#462 🐸 Cope's Gray Treefrog

#463 🐸 Gray Treefrog

#466 🦎 Common map turtle

#472 🦎 Eastern Milksnake

#476 🐸 Pickerel Frog

#480 🦎 Smooth Green Snake

#481 🦎 Black Rat Snake

#482 🦎 Western Foxsnake

#484 🦎 Five-lined Skink

#487 🐸 Boreal Chorus Frog

#490 🦎 Common Musk Turtle

#494 🦎 Western Ribbonsnake

#495 🦎 Plains Garter Snake

Common

131

#004 🦌 Coyote

#005 🦌 American beaver

#006 🦌 Virginia opossum

#013 🦌 Bobcat

#019 🦌 White-tailed deer

#023 🦌 Raccoon

#026 🦌 Eastern Gray Squirrel

#027 🦌 Fox Squirrel

#029 🦌 Eastern Cottontail

#030 🦌 Eastern Chipmunk

#037 🐦 Spotted Sandpiper

#042 🐦 Red-winged Blackbird

#044 🐦 Wood Duck

#052 🐦 Eurasian Teal

#054 🐦 Mallard

#057 🐦 Greater white-fronted goose

#069 🐦 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

#070 🐦 Great Egret

#071 🐦 Great Blue Heron

#076 🐦 Lesser Scaup

#078 🐦 Ring-necked Duck

#081 🐦 Tufted Titmouse

#083 🐦 Cedar Waxwing

#088 🐦 Canada goose

#093 🐦 Bufflehead

#094 🐦 Common goldeneye

#096 🐦 Red-tailed Hawk

#117 🐦 Pectoral Sandpiper

#127 🐦 Northern Cardinal

#128 🐦 Turkey Vulture

#132 🐦 Swainson's Thrush

#135 🐦 Chimney Swift

#138 🐦 Killdeer

#144 🐦 Hen Harrier

#150 🐦 Northern Flicker

#153 🐦 Rock Dove · introduced

#157 🐦 Eastern Wood Pewee

#159 🐦 American Crow

#163 🐦 Blue Jay

#165 🐦 Trumpeter Swan

#173 🐦 Downy Woodpecker

#174 🐦 Pileated Woodpecker

#175 🐦 Gray Catbird

#183 🐦 Least Flycatcher

#194 🐦 American Kestrel

#197 🐦 American Coot

#207 🐦 Common Yellowthroat

#210 🐦 House Finch

#212 🐦 Bald Eagle

#216 🐦 Barn Swallow

#224 🐦 Baltimore Oriole

#226 🐦 Orchard Oriole

#229 🐦 Dark-eyed Junco

#235 🐦 Ring-billed Gull

#245 🐦 Tennessee Warbler

#246 🐦 Nashville Warbler

#247 🐦 Hairy Woodpecker

#256 🐦 Hooded Merganser

#261 🐦 Gadwall

#262 🐦 Belted Kingfisher

#264 🐦 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#265 🐦 Red-headed Woodpecker

#271 🐦 Wild Turkey

#273 🐦 Swamp Sparrow

#275 🐦 Song Sparrow

#276 🐦 Goosander

#279 🐦 Black-and-white Warbler

#280 🐦 Brown-headed Cowbird

#283 🐦 Great Crested Flycatcher

#292 🐦 Ruddy Duck

#296 🐦 House sparrow · introduced

#297 🐦 Eurasian Tree Sparrow · introduced

#303 🐦 Indigo Bunting

#305 🐦 American White Pelican

#309 🐦 Cliff Swallow

#310 🐦 Double-crested Cormorant

#315 🐦 Common Pheasant · introduced

#316 🐦 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

#321 🐦 Eastern Towhee

#335 🐦 Pied-billed Grebe

#336 🐦 Black-capped Chickadee

#337 🐦 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

#344 🐦 Common Grackle

#348 🐦 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

#354 🐦 Eastern Phoebe

#365 🐦 Yellow-rumped Warbler

#372 🐦 Yellow Warbler

#374 🐦 American Redstart

#380 🐦 Eastern Bluebird

#382 🐦 White-breasted Nuthatch

#383 🐦 Northern Shoveler

#385 🐦 Blue-winged Teal

#391 🐦 American Goldfinch

#392 🐦 Dickcissel

#394 🐦 Chipping Sparrow

#395 🐦 Field Sparrow

#396 🐦 American Tree Sparrow

#397 🐦 Northern Rough-winged Swallow

#405 🐦 Eurasian Collared Dove · introduced

#406 🐦 Barred owl

#407 🐦 Eastern Meadowlark

#409 🐦 Common Starling · introduced

#411 🐦 Tree Swallow

#415 🐦 Carolina Wren

#417 🐦 Brown Thrasher

#418 🐦 Lesser Yellowlegs

#422 🐦 House Wren

#424 🐦 American Robin

#428 🐦 Eastern Kingbird

#434 🐦 Yellow-throated vireo

#435 🐦 Warbling Vireo

#437 🐦 Red-eyed Vireo

#443 🐦 Mourning Dove

#444 🐦 White-throated Sparrow

#446 🐦 White-crowned Sparrow

#448 🐸 Blanchard's Cricket Frog

#450 🐸 American Toad

#451 🐸 Fowler's Toad

#453 🦎 Brown Anole · introduced

#456 🦎 Common snapping turtle

#457 🦎 Painted Turtle

#474 🐸 American Bullfrog

#475 🐸 Green Frog

#477 🐸 Northern Leopard Frog

#478 🦎 Northern Water Snake

#479 🐸 Eastern Newt

#483 🦎 Gopher Snake

#486 🐸 Spring Peeper

#491 🦎 Brown Snake

#496 🦎 Common Garter Snake

#497 🦎 Pond Slider

Vagrants

Rare visitors from elsewhere. Listed, but outside the completion count.

#038 🐦 Clark's Grebe

#041 🐦 Boreal Owl

#043 🐦 Mandarin Duck

#046 🐦 Egyptian Goose · introduced

#051 🐦 Green-winged Teal

#056 🐦 Anhinga

#062 🐦 Tundra Bean Goose

#064 🐦 Sprague's Pipit

#074 🐦 Long-eared Owl

#087 🐦 Brent Goose

#104 🐦 Lark Bunting

#106 🐦 Chestnut-collared longspur

#108 🐦 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

#113 🐦 Curlew Sandpiper

#122 🐦 Ringed Teal

#123 🐦 Anna's Hummingbird

#124 🐦 Southern Caracara

#143 🐦 Black-headed Gull

#151 🐦 Green Violetear

#154 🐦 Inca Dove

#155 🐦 Common Ground-Dove

#164 🐦 Black swan

#167 🐦 Whooper Swan

#169 🐦 Broad-billed Hummingbird

#171 🐦 Fulvous Whistling Duck

#178 🐦 Tricolored Heron

#180 🐦 White-tailed Kite

#195 🐦 Magnificent Frigatebird

#196 🐦 Brambling

#200 🐦 Red Junglefowl

#223 🐦 Hooded Oriole

#225 🐦 Scott's Oriole

#234 🐦 Black-tailed Gull

#237 🐦 Glaucous-winged gull

#239 🐦 Heermann's Gull

#242 🐦 Slaty-backed Gull

#252 🐦 Swainson's Warbler

#255 🐦 Bar-tailed Godwit

#260 🐦 Eurasian Wigeon

#266 🐦 Acorn Woodpecker

#267 🐦 Lewis's Woodpecker

#272 🐦 Budgerigar · introduced

#282 🐦 Wood Stork

#284 🐦 Monk Parakeet · introduced

#285 🐦 Clark's Nutcracker

#291 🐦 Sage Thrasher

#304 🐦 Indian Peafowl

#306 🐦 Brown Pelican

#308 🐦 Cave Swallow

#320 🐦 Green-tailed Towhee

#342 🐦 Vermilion Flycatcher

#350 🐦 Ross's Gull

#377 🐦 Townsend's Warbler

#386 🐦 Garganey

#387 🐦 Red-breasted Sapsucker

#398 🐦 Long-tailed Jaeger

#400 🐦 Pomarine Jaeger

#403 🐦 Arctic Tern

#410 🐦 Brown Booby

#412 🐦 Violet-green Swallow

#413 🐦 Royal Tern

#416 🐦 Curve-billed Thrasher

#427 🐦 Fork-tailed Flycatcher

#445 🐦 Golden-crowned Sparrow