IOWA ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION - Checklist of the Birds of Black Hawk County - 287 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 Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis ___Herring Gull ___Short-eared Owl ___Barn Swallow ___White-winged Crossbill ___Snow Goose ___Yellow-billed Cuckoo ___Glaucous Gull ___Boreal Owl ___Cliff Swallow ___Pine Siskin ___Ross's Goose ___Black-billed Cuckoo ___Least Tern ___Northern Saw-whet Owl Chickadees, Titmice ___American Goldfinch ___Greater White-fronted Goose Goatsuckers ___Caspian Tern Kingfishers ___Black-capped Chickadee Longspurs, Snow Bunting ___Brant ___Common Nighthawk ___Black Tern ___Belted Kingfisher ___Tufted Titmouse ___Lapland Longspur ___Cackling Goose ___Eastern Whip-poor-will ___Common Tern Woodpeckers Nuthatches ___Snow Bunting ___Forster's Tern ___Canada Goose Swifts ___Red-headed Woodpecker ___Red-breasted Nuthatch Towhees, Sparrows ___Mute Swan ___Chimney Swift Loons ___Red-bellied Woodpecker ___White-breasted Nuthatch ___Grasshopper Sparrow ___Trumpeter Swan ___Common Loon Hummingbirds ___Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Creepers ___Black-throated Sparrow ___Tundra Swan ___Lark Sparrow ___Ruby-throated Hummingbird Cormorants ___Downy Woodpecker ___Brown Creeper ___Wood Duck ___Double-crested Cormorant ___Hairy Woodpecker ___Chipping Sparrow Rails, Gallinules, and Coots Wrens ___Blue-winged Teal ___Northern Flicker ___Clay-colored Sparrow ___Virginia Rail Pelicans ___House Wren ___Northern Shoveler ___Pileated Woodpecker ___Field Sparrow ___Sora ___American White Pelican ___Winter Wren ___Gadwall ___Fox Sparrow ___Common Gallinule Bitterns, Herons, and Allies Caracaras and Falcons ___Sedge Wren ___American Wigeon ___American Tree Sparrow ___American Coot ___American Bittern ___American Kestrel ___Marsh Wren ___Mallard ___Dark-eyed Junco ___Least Bittern ___Merlin ___Carolina Wren ___American Black Duck Cranes ___White-crowned Sparrow ___Great Blue Heron ___Peregrine Falcon Gnatcatchers ___Northern Pintail ___Sandhill Crane ___Harris's Sparrow ___Great Egret ___Prairie Falcon ___Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ___Green-winged Teal Stilts and Avocets ___White-throated Sparrow ___Snowy Egret Flycatchers ___Canvasback ___American Avocet Kinglets ___Vesper Sparrow ___Cattle Egret ___Great Crested Flycatcher ___Redhead ___Golden-crowned Kinglet ___LeConte's Sparrow Lapwings and Plovers ___Green Heron ___Western Kingbird ___Ring-necked Duck ___Ruby-crowned Kinglet ___Nelson's Sparrow ___Black-bellied Plover ___Black-crowned Night-Heron ___Eastern Kingbird ___Greater Scaup ___American Golden-Plover Thrushes ___Henslow's Sparrow Ibises and Spoonbills ___Scissor-tailed Flycatcher ___Lesser Scaup ___Killdeer ___Eastern Bluebird ___Savannah Sparrow ___Glossy Ibis ___Olive-sided Flycatcher ___Harlequin Duck ___Semipalmated Plover ___Mountain Bluebird ___Song Sparrow ___White-faced Ibis ___Eastern Wood-Pewee ___Surf Scoter ___Veery ___Lincoln's Sparrow Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and ___Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ___White-winged Scoter New World Vultures ___Gray-cheeked Thrush Allies ___Alder Flycatcher ___Swamp Sparrow ___Long-tailed Duck ___Turkey Vulture ___Swainson's Thrush ___Eastern Towhee ___Upland Sandpiper ___Willow Flycatcher ___Bufflehead Ospreys ___Hermit Thrush ___Hudsonian Godwit ___Least Flycatcher Chats ___Common Goldeneye ___Osprey ___Wood Thrush ___Marbled Godwit ___Eastern Phoebe ___Yellow-breasted Chat ___Hooded Merganser ___American Robin ___Ruddy Turnstone Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies ___Say's Phoebe Blackbirds, Orioles ___Common Merganser ___Swallow-tailed Kite ___Varied Thrush ___Dunlin Shrikes ___Yellow-headed Blackbird ___Red-breasted Merganser ___Northern Harrier Mimids ___Baird's Sandpiper ___Loggerhead Shrike ___Bobolink ___Ruddy Duck ___Sharp-shinned Hawk ___Gray Catbird ___Least Sandpiper ___Northern Shrike ___Eastern Meadowlark ___Cooper's Hawk ___Brown Thrasher New World Quail ___White-rumped Sandpiper ___Western Meadowlark ___Northern Goshawk Vireos ___Sage Thrasher ___Northern Bobwhite ___Pectoral Sandpiper ___Orchard Oriole ___Bald Eagle ___White-eyed Vireo ___Northern Mockingbird Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, ___Semipalmated Sandpiper ___Baltimore Oriole ___Red-shouldered Hawk ___Bell's Vireo and Old World Quail ___Short-billed Dowitcher Starlings ___Red-winged Blackbird ___Broad-winged Hawk ___Yellow-throated Vireo ___Wild Turkey ___Long-billed Dowitcher ___European Starling ___Brown-headed Cowbird ___Swainson's Hawk ___Blue-headed Vireo ___Ruffed Grouse ___American Woodcock ___Philadelphia Vireo Waxwings ___Rusty Blackbird ___Red-tailed Hawk ___Brewer's Blackbird ___Gray Partridge ___Wilson's Snipe ___Warbling Vireo ___Cedar Waxwing ___Rough-legged Hawk ___Common Grackle ___Ring-necked Pheasant ___Spotted Sandpiper ___Red-eyed Vireo Old World Sparrows ___Solitary Sandpiper Barn Owls ___Great-tailed Grackle Grebes Jays, Magpies, Crows ___House Sparrow ___Lesser Yellowlegs ___Barn Owl ___Pied-billed Grebe ___Blue Jay ___Eurasian Tree Sparrow Wood-warblers ___Willet Typical Owls ___Ovenbird ___Horned Grebe ___American Crow Pipits ___Red-necked Grebe ___Greater Yellowlegs ___Eastern Screech-Owl ___Louisiana Waterthrush Larks ___American Pipit ___Eared Grebe ___Wilson's Phalarope ___Great Horned Owl ___Northern Waterthrush ___Horned Lark Finches ___Snowy Owl ___Western Grebe Gulls, Terns, Skimmers ___House Finch ___Golden-winged Warbler ___Northern Hawk Owl Swallows ___Blue-winged Warbler Pigeons, Doves ___Black-legged Kittiwake ___Purple Finch ___Burrowing Owl ___Bank Swallow ___Black-and-white Warbler ___Rock Pigeon ___Bonaparte's Gull ___Common Redpoll ___Barred Owl ___Tree Swallow ___Tennessee Warbler ___Eurasian Collared-Dove ___Franklin's Gull ___Hoary Redpoll ___Long-eared Owl ___Northern Rough-winged Swallow ___Orange-crowned Warbler ___Mourning Dove ___Ring-billed Gull ___Red Crossbill ___Purple Martin ___Nashville Warbler Iowa Ornithologists' Union ___Connecticut Warbler (IOU) is a non-profit ___Mourning Warbler statewide organization devoted to the study, ___Kentucky Warbler conservation, and enjoyment ___Common Yellowthroat of Iowa's birds. IOU's ___Hooded Warbler activities include reviewing ___American Redstart and archiving sightings of rare birds through the Iowa ___Cape May Warbler Records Committee, ___Northern Parula publishing Iowa Bird Life: The ___Magnolia Warbler Iowa Ornithologists' Union quarterly journal, publishing ___Bay-breasted Warbler IOU News, the quarterly ___Blackburnian Warbler newsletter, organizing field ___Yellow Warbler trips, and holding semi- ___Chestnut-sided Warbler annual weekends in various locations throughout the ___Blackpoll Warbler state. IOU also owns and ___Palm Warbler manages IA-BIRD, the Iowa ___Pine Warbler birding community's online mailing list as well as ___Yellow-rumped Warbler maintains a social media ___Yellow-throated Warbler presence through Facebook ___Prairie Warbler and Twitter. To join the IOU, ___Black-throated Green Warbler or for more information, visit us online at ___Canada Warbler http://iowabirds.org/. IOU ___Wilson's Warbler members maintain the list of species recorded in each Tanagers, Cardinals, county of the state from Grosbeaks, Buntings which this checklist is ___Summer Tanager generated. ___Scarlet Tanager ___Western Tanager Copyright Iowa Ornithologists' ___Northern Cardinal Union. 2021. All Rights ___Rose-breasted Grosbeak Reserved. ___Blue Grosbeak ___Indigo Bunting ___Dickcissel

The taxonomic sequence and nomenclature used in this list follow the Checklist of North American Birds, 7th Edition, American Ornithologists’ Union, 1998, updated through the 57th Supplement, 2016 (Auk 133(3):544-560, 2016).