Checklist of the Birds of Clinton County

IOWA ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION - Checklist of the Birds of Clinton County - 243 Species This checklist is provided as a service of the Iowa Ornithologists' Union and is not officially sanctioned by any reviewing body.

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Ducks, Geese, Swans ___Black-billed Cuckoo Pelicans ___Eastern Kingbird ___Swainson's Thrush ___Great-tailed Grackle ___Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Goatsuckers ___American White Pelican ___Eastern Wood-Pewee ___Hermit Thrush Wood-warblers ___Fulvous Whistling-Duck ___Common Nighthawk Bitterns, Herons, and Allies ___Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ___Wood Thrush ___Ovenbird ___American Robin ___Snow Goose ___Eastern Whip-poor-will ___American Bittern ___Acadian Flycatcher ___Louisiana Waterthrush ___Greater White-fronted Goose Swifts ___Least Bittern ___Alder Flycatcher Mimids ___Northern Waterthrush ___Cackling Goose ___Chimney Swift ___Great Blue Heron ___Willow Flycatcher ___Gray Catbird ___Golden-winged Warbler ___Eastern Phoebe ___Canada Goose Hummingbirds ___Great Egret ___Brown Thrasher ___Blue-winged Warbler ___Northern Mockingbird ___Black-and-white Warbler ___Trumpeter Swan ___Ruby-throated Hummingbird ___Snowy Egret Shrikes ___Tundra Swan ___Northern Shrike ___Tennessee Warbler Rails, Gallinules, and Coots ___Little Blue Heron Starlings ___Wood Duck ___European Starling ___Orange-crowned Warbler ___Virginia Rail ___Cattle Egret Vireos ___Blue-winged Teal ___Nashville Warbler ___Sora ___Green Heron ___Bell's Vireo Waxwings ___Northern Shoveler ___Mourning Warbler ___Common Gallinule ___Black-crowned Night-Heron ___Yellow-throated Vireo ___Cedar Waxwing ___Gadwall ___Kentucky Warbler ___American Coot New World Vultures ___Blue-headed Vireo Old World Sparrows ___Eurasian Wigeon ___Common Yellowthroat ___Turkey Vulture ___Philadelphia Vireo ___House Sparrow ___American Wigeon Cranes ___American Redstart Ospreys ___Warbling Vireo ___Eurasian Tree Sparrow ___Mallard ___Sandhill Crane ___Cape May Warbler ___Osprey ___Red-eyed Vireo ___American Black Duck Lapwings and Plovers Finches ___Northern Parula Jays, Magpies, Crows ___House Finch ___Northern Pintail ___American Golden-Plover Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies ___Magnolia Warbler ___Blue Jay ___Purple Finch ___Green-winged Teal ___Killdeer ___Swallow-tailed Kite ___Bay-breasted Warbler ___American Crow ___Red Crossbill ___Canvasback ___Semipalmated Plover ___Golden Eagle ___Blackburnian Warbler Larks ___Pine Siskin ___Redhead Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and ___Northern Harrier ___Yellow Warbler ___Sharp-shinned Hawk ___Horned Lark ___American Goldfinch ___Ring-necked Duck Allies ___Chestnut-sided Warbler ___Cooper's Hawk Swallows ___Greater Scaup ___Upland Sandpiper Towhees, Sparrows ___Blackpoll Warbler ___Bald Eagle ___Bank Swallow ___Grasshopper Sparrow ___Lesser Scaup ___Dunlin ___Palm Warbler ___Red-shouldered Hawk ___Tree Swallow ___Lark Sparrow ___Surf Scoter ___Baird's Sandpiper ___Yellow-rumped Warbler ___Broad-winged Hawk ___Northern Rough-winged Swallow ___Chipping Sparrow ___White-winged Scoter ___Least Sandpiper ___Yellow-throated Warbler ___Red-tailed Hawk ___Purple Martin ___Black Scoter ___Pectoral Sandpiper ___Field Sparrow ___Black-throated Green Warbler ___Rough-legged Hawk ___Barn Swallow ___Fox Sparrow ___Long-tailed Duck ___Semipalmated Sandpiper ___Canada Warbler ___Cliff Swallow ___American Tree Sparrow ___Bufflehead ___Short-billed Dowitcher Barn Owls ___Wilson's Warbler ___Barn Owl ___Dark-eyed Junco ___Common Goldeneye ___American Woodcock Chickadees, Titmice Tanagers, Cardinals, ___Black-capped Chickadee ___White-crowned Sparrow ___Barrow's Goldeneye ___Wilson's Snipe Typical Owls Grosbeaks, Buntings ___Tufted Titmouse ___White-throated Sparrow ___Hooded Merganser ___Spotted Sandpiper ___Eastern Screech-Owl ___Summer Tanager ___Vesper Sparrow ___Common Merganser ___Solitary Sandpiper ___Great Horned Owl Nuthatches ___Scarlet Tanager ___Nelson's Sparrow ___Red-breasted Merganser ___Lesser Yellowlegs ___Snowy Owl ___Red-breasted Nuthatch ___Northern Cardinal ___Henslow's Sparrow ___Ruddy Duck ___Greater Yellowlegs ___Barred Owl ___White-breasted Nuthatch ___Rose-breasted Grosbeak ___Savannah Sparrow New World Quail ___Wilson's Phalarope ___Short-eared Owl Creepers ___Indigo Bunting ___Song Sparrow ___Northern Bobwhite Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Kingfishers ___Brown Creeper ___Dickcissel ___Lincoln's Sparrow Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, ___Ring-billed Gull ___Belted Kingfisher Wrens ___Swamp Sparrow ___Herring Gull Woodpeckers ___House Wren and Old World Quail ___Eastern Towhee ___Wild Turkey ___Iceland Gull ___Red-headed Woodpecker ___Winter Wren Chats The taxonomic sequence and ___Gray Partridge ___Lesser Black-backed Gull ___Red-bellied Woodpecker ___Sedge Wren nomenclature used in this list ___Yellow-breasted Chat ___Ring-necked Pheasant ___Glaucous Gull ___Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ___Marsh Wren follow the Checklist of North ___Great Black-backed Gull ___Downy Woodpecker ___Carolina Wren Blackbirds, Orioles American Birds, 7th Edition, Grebes American Ornithologists’ ___Caspian Tern ___Hairy Woodpecker ___Yellow-headed Blackbird ___Pied-billed Grebe Gnatcatchers Union, 1998, updated through ___Black Tern ___Northern Flicker ___Bobolink ___Horned Grebe ___Blue-gray Gnatcatcher the 57th Supplement, 2016 ___Common Tern ___Pileated Woodpecker ___Eastern Meadowlark (Auk 133(3):544-560, 2016). ___Western Grebe Kinglets ___Western Meadowlark ___Forster's Tern Caracaras and Falcons ___Golden-crowned Kinglet Pigeons, Doves ___Orchard Oriole Loons ___American Kestrel ___Ruby-crowned Kinglet ___Rock Pigeon ___Baltimore Oriole ___Common Loon ___Merlin ___Eurasian Collared-Dove Thrushes ___Red-winged Blackbird Cormorants ___Peregrine Falcon ___Mourning Dove ___Eastern Bluebird ___Brown-headed Cowbird ___Double-crested Cormorant Flycatchers Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis ___Veery ___Rusty Blackbird ___Neotropic Cormorant ___Great Crested Flycatcher ___Yellow-billed Cuckoo ___Gray-cheeked Thrush ___Common Grackle Iowa Ornithologists' Union (IOU) is a non-profit statewide organization devoted to the study, conservation, and enjoyment of Iowa's birds. IOU's activities include reviewing and archiving sightings of rare birds through the Iowa Records Committee, publishing Iowa Bird Life: The Iowa Ornithologists' Union quarterly journal, publishing IOU News, the quarterly newsletter, organizing field trips, and holding semi- annual weekends in various locations throughout the state. IOU also owns and manages IA-BIRD, the Iowa birding community's online mailing list as well as maintains a social media presence through Facebook and Twitter. To join the IOU, or for more information, visit us online at http://iowabirds.org/. IOU members maintain the list of species recorded in each county of the state from which this checklist is generated.