Mills County Checklist

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IOWA ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION - Checklist of the Birds of Mills County - 244 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 ___Ruby-throated Hummingbird Pelicans ___Great Crested Flycatcher ___Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blackbirds, Orioles ___Snow Goose Rails, Gallinules, and Coots ___American White Pelican ___Western Kingbird Thrushes ___Yellow-headed Blackbird ___Ross's Goose ___Virginia Rail Bitterns, Herons, and Allies ___Eastern Kingbird ___Eastern Bluebird ___Bobolink ___Greater White-fronted Goose ___Sora ___American Bittern ___Olive-sided Flycatcher ___Gray-cheeked Thrush ___Eastern Meadowlark ___Cackling Goose ___Common Gallinule ___Least Bittern ___Eastern Wood-Pewee ___Swainson's Thrush ___Western Meadowlark ___Canada Goose ___American Coot ___Great Blue Heron ___Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ___Hermit Thrush ___Orchard Oriole ___Trumpeter Swan Stilts and Avocets ___Great Egret ___Acadian Flycatcher ___Wood Thrush ___Baltimore Oriole ___Wood Duck ___American Avocet ___Snowy Egret ___Alder Flycatcher ___American Robin ___Red-winged Blackbird ___Willow Flycatcher ___Blue-winged Teal Lapwings and Plovers ___Little Blue Heron Mimids ___Brown-headed Cowbird ___Least Flycatcher ___Rusty Blackbird ___Cinnamon Teal ___Black-bellied Plover ___Cattle Egret ___Gray Catbird ___Eastern Phoebe ___Brewer's Blackbird ___Northern Shoveler ___American Golden-Plover ___Green Heron ___Brown Thrasher ___Common Grackle ___Gadwall ___Killdeer ___Black-crowned Night-Heron Shrikes ___Northern Mockingbird ___Great-tailed Grackle ___American Wigeon ___Semipalmated Plover ___Yellow-crowned Night-Heron ___Loggerhead Shrike Starlings ___Mallard ___Northern Shrike Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Ibises and Spoonbills ___European Starling Wood-warblers ___Northern Pintail Vireos ___Ovenbird Allies ___Glossy Ibis Waxwings ___Green-winged Teal ___White-eyed Vireo ___Louisiana Waterthrush ___Upland Sandpiper ___White-faced Ibis ___Cedar Waxwing ___Canvasback ___Bell's Vireo ___Black-and-white Warbler ___Hudsonian Godwit New World Vultures Old World Sparrows ___Redhead ___Yellow-throated Vireo ___Tennessee Warbler ___Marbled Godwit ___Turkey Vulture ___House Sparrow ___Ring-necked Duck ___Blue-headed Vireo ___Orange-crowned Warbler ___Ruddy Turnstone Ospreys ___Greater Scaup ___Philadelphia Vireo Pipits ___Nashville Warbler ___Stilt Sandpiper ___Osprey ___American Pipit ___Lesser Scaup ___Warbling Vireo ___Kentucky Warbler ___Sanderling ___Bufflehead Hawks, Kites, Eagles, and Allies ___Red-eyed Vireo Finches ___Common Yellowthroat ___Dunlin ___Common Goldeneye ___Northern Harrier ___House Finch ___American Redstart ___Baird's Sandpiper Jays, Magpies, Crows ___Hooded Merganser ___Sharp-shinned Hawk ___Purple Finch ___Northern Parula ___Least Sandpiper ___Blue Jay ___Common Merganser ___Cooper's Hawk ___Common Redpoll ___Magnolia Warbler ___White-rumped Sandpiper ___Clark's Nutcracker ___Red-breasted Merganser ___Bald Eagle ___Red Crossbill ___Bay-breasted Warbler ___Pectoral Sandpiper ___American Crow ___Ruddy Duck ___Broad-winged Hawk ___Pine Siskin ___Yellow Warbler ___Semipalmated Sandpiper Larks New World Quail ___Swainson's Hawk ___American Goldfinch ___Chestnut-sided Warbler ___Short-billed Dowitcher ___Red-tailed Hawk ___Horned Lark ___Northern Bobwhite Longspurs, Snow Bunting ___Blackpoll Warbler ___Long-billed Dowitcher Swallows ___Rough-legged Hawk ___Lapland Longspur ___Palm Warbler Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, ___American Woodcock ___Bank Swallow Barn Owls ___Snow Bunting ___Pine Warbler and Old World Quail ___Wilson's Snipe ___Tree Swallow ___Barn Owl ___Yellow-rumped Warbler ___Wild Turkey ___Spotted Sandpiper ___Northern Rough-winged Swallow Towhees, Sparrows Typical Owls ___Grasshopper Sparrow ___Ring-necked Pheasant ___Solitary Sandpiper ___Purple Martin Tanagers, Cardinals, ___Eastern Screech-Owl ___Lark Sparrow Grebes ___Lesser Yellowlegs ___Barn Swallow Grosbeaks, Buntings ___Great Horned Owl ___Chipping Sparrow ___Pied-billed Grebe ___Willet ___Cliff Swallow ___Summer Tanager ___Barred Owl ___Clay-colored Sparrow ___Horned Grebe ___Greater Yellowlegs Chickadees, Titmice ___Scarlet Tanager ___Long-eared Owl ___Field Sparrow ___Eared Grebe ___Wilson's Phalarope ___Black-capped Chickadee ___Northern Cardinal ___Short-eared Owl ___Fox Sparrow Pigeons, Doves ___Red-necked Phalarope ___Tufted Titmouse ___Rose-breasted Grosbeak Kingfishers ___American Tree Sparrow ___Blue Grosbeak ___Rock Pigeon Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Nuthatches ___Belted Kingfisher ___Dark-eyed Junco ___Lazuli Bunting ___Eurasian Collared-Dove ___Bonaparte's Gull ___White-breasted Nuthatch ___White-crowned Sparrow ___Indigo Bunting ___Mourning Dove ___Franklin's Gull Woodpeckers ___Red-headed Woodpecker Creepers ___Harris's Sparrow ___Dickcissel Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis ___Ring-billed Gull ___Brown Creeper ___Red-bellied Woodpecker ___White-throated Sparrow ___Yellow-billed Cuckoo ___Herring Gull ___Downy Woodpecker Wrens ___Vesper Sparrow ___Black-billed Cuckoo ___Least Tern ___Hairy Woodpecker ___House Wren ___LeConte's Sparrow ___Caspian Tern The taxonomic sequence and Goatsuckers ___Sedge Wren ___Nelson's Sparrow ___Black Tern ___Northern Flicker nomenclature used in this list ___Common Nighthawk ___Marsh Wren ___Savannah Sparrow ___Common Tern ___Pileated Woodpecker follow the Checklist of North ___Chuck-will's-widow ___Carolina Wren ___Song Sparrow American Birds, 7th Edition, ___Forster's Tern Caracaras and Falcons ___Eastern Whip-poor-will ___Lincoln's Sparrow American Ornithologists’ ___American Kestrel Gnatcatchers Union, 1998, updated through Loons ___Swamp Sparrow Swifts ___Merlin ___Blue-gray Gnatcatcher the 57th Supplement, 2016 ___Common Loon ___Spotted Towhee ___Chimney Swift ___Peregrine Falcon Kinglets (Auk 133(3):544-560, 2016). Cormorants ___Eastern Towhee Hummingbirds ___Golden-crowned Kinglet ___Double-crested Cormorant Flycatchers 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.