___Hooded Merganser* ___Hudsonian Godwit ___Acadian Flycatcher* ___Bohemian Waxwing ___Dark-eyed Junco ___Brewer’s Blackbird ___Common Merganser ___Marbled Godwit ___Alder Flycatcher ___Cedar Waxwing* ___Common Grackle* ___Summer Tanager ___Red-breasted Merganser ___Semipalmated Sandpiper ___Willow Flycatcher* ___Brown-headed Cowbird* Effigy Mounds- ___Lapland Longspur ___Scarlet Tanager* ___Ruddy Duck ___Least Sandpiper ___Least Flycatcher* ___Orchard Oriole* ___Snow Bunting ___Northern Cardinal* ___White-rumped Sandpiper ___Eastern Phoebe* ___Baltimore Oriole* ___Northern Bobwhite* ___Rose-breasted Grosbeak* Yellow River Forest ___Baird’s Sandpiper ___Great Crested Flycatcher* ___Ovenbird* ___Gray Partridge* ___Blue Grosbeak ___Purple Finch ___Pectoral Sandpiper ___Eastern Kingbird* ___Worm-eating Warbler* ___Ring-necked Pheasant* ___Indigo Bunting* ___House Finch* ___Dunlin ___Louisiana Waterthrush* ___Ruffed Grouse* ___Loggerhead Shrike* ___Dickcissel* ___White-winged Crossbill ___Stilt Sandpiper Bird Conservation Area ___Northern Waterthrush ___Wild Turkey* ___Northern Shrike ___Red Crosbill ___Short-billed Dowitcher ___Golden-winged Warbler ___Bobolink* ___Common Redpoll ___Common Loon ___Long-billed Dowitcher ___White-eyed Vireo* ___Blue-winged Warbler* ___Red-winged Blackbird* & ___Pine Siskin* ___Wilson’s Snipe* ___Bell’s Vireo* ___Black-and-white Warbler* ___Eastern Meadowlark* ___American Goldfinch* ___Pied-billed Grebe* ___American Woodcock* Audubon Globally ___Yellow-throated Vireo* ___Prothonotary Warbler* ___Western Meadowlark* ___Horned Grebe ___Wilson’s Phalarope ___Blue-headed Vireo ___Tennessee Warbler ___Yellow-headed Blackbird* ___House Sparrow* ___Red-necked Grebe ___Warbling Vireo* ___Orange-crowned Warbler ___Rusty Blackbird Important Bird Area ___Eared Grebe ___Franklin’s Gull ___Philadelphia Vireo ___Nashville Warbler ___Bonaparte’s Gull ___Red-eyed Vireo* ___Connecticut Warbler ___American White Pelican ___Ring-billed Gull ___Mourning Warbler ___Herring Gull ___Blue Jay* ___Double-crested Cormorant* ___Kentucky Warbler* ___Thayer’s Gull ___American Crow* ___Common Yellowthroat* ___American Bittern* ___Caspian Tern ___Hooded Warbler* ___Least Bittern* ___Black Tern ___Horned Lark* ___Great Blue Heron* ___American Redstart* ___Common Tern ___Purple Martin* ___Great Egret* ___Cape May Warbler ___Forster’s Tern ___Tree Swallow* ___Cattle Egret ___Cerulean Warbler* ___N. Rough-winged Swallow* ___Green Heron* ___Rock Pigeon* ___Northern Parula* ___Bank Swallow* ___Black-crowned Night-Heron ___Eurasian Collared-Dove* ___Magnolia Warbler ___Cliff Swallow* ___Yellow-crowned Night-Heron ___Mourning Dove* ___Bay-breasted Warbler ___Barn Swallow* ___Blackburnian Warbler ___Yellow-billed Cuckoo* ___Turkey Vulture* ___Yellow Warbler* ___Black-billed Cuckoo* ___Black-capped Chickadee* ___Chestnut-sided Warbler* ___Osprey ___Tufted Titmouse* ___Mississippi Kite ___Barn Owl ___Blackpoll Warbler ___Red-breasted Nuthatch ___Bald Eagle* ___Eastern Screech-Owl* ___Black-throated Blue Warbler ___Great Horned Owl* ___White-breasted Nuthatch* ___Palm Warbler ___Northern Harrier* ___Sharp-shinned Hawk* ___Snowy Owl ___Pine Warbler ___Brown Creeper* Scarlet Tanager ___Barred Owl* ___Yellow-rumped Warbler ___Cooper’s Hawk* Photo by Lowell Washburn ___Northern Goshawk ___Long-eared Owl* ___Carolina Wren* ___Yellow-throated Warbler* ___Black-throated Green Warbler ___Red-shouldered Hawk* ___Short-eared Owl ___House Wren* ___Canada Warbler ___Broad-winged Hawk* ___Northern Saw-whet Owl ___Winter Wren* ___Wilson’s Warbler ___Swainson’s Hawk ___Sedge Wren* ___Common Nighthawk* Iowa Department of Natural Resources ___Red-tailed Hawk* ___Marsh Wren* ___Yellow-breasted Chat* ___Eastern Whip-poor-will* ___Rough-legged Hawk ___Blue-gray Gnatcatcher* ___Spotted Towhee 1436 255th St. ___Golden Eagle ___Chimney Swift* ___Eastern Towhee* Boone, IA 50036 ___Ruby-throated Hummingbird* ___Golden-crowned Kinglet ___American Tree Sparrow ___King Rail Phone: (515) 432-2823 ___Ruby-crowned Kinglet ___Chipping Sparrow* ___Virginia Rail* ___Belted Kingfisher* Fax: (515) 432-2835 ___Clay-colored Sparrow* ___Sora* ___Eastern Bluebird* ___Common Gallinule ___Red-headed Woodpecker* ___Veery* ___Field Sparrow* ___Vesper Sparrow* Federal and State law prohibits employment and/or public ac- ___American Coot* ___Red-bellied Woodpecker* ___Gray-cheeked Thrush commodation (such as access to services or physical facilities) ___Yellow-bellied Sapsucker* ___Swainson’s Thrush ___Lark Sparrow* discrimination on the basis of age, color, creed, disability (mental ___Sandhill Crane* ___Downy Woodpecker* ___Hermit Thrush ___Savannah Sparrow* ___Hairy Woodpecker* ___Grasshopper Sparrow* and/or physical), gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, ___Black-bellied Plover ___Wood Thrush* ___Northern Flicker* ___Henslow’s Sparrow* race, religion, sex or sexual orientation. If you believe you have ___American Golden-Plover ___American Robin* been discriminated against in any program, activity or facility as ___Pileated Woodpecker* ___Le Conte’s Sparrow ___Semipalmated Plover ___Gray Catbird* ___Fox Sparrow described above, or if you desire further information, contact the ___Killdeer* ___American Kestrel* Iowa Civil Rights Commission at 1-800-457-4416, or write to: ___Northern Mockingbird* ___Song Sparrow* ___Merlin Director, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Wallace State ___Spotted Sandpiper* ___Brown Thrasher* ___Lincoln’s Sparrow ___Peregrine Falcon* Office Building, 502 E. 9th, Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0034. ___Swamp Sparrow* ___Solitary Sandpiper ___European Starling* ©2008 Jenni Dyar ___Greater Yellowlegs ___Olive-sided Flycatcher ___White-throated Sparrow ___Lesser Yellowlegs ___Eastern Wood-Pewee* ___American Pipit ___Harris’s Sparrow Written by Jenni Dyar, AmeriCorps, 2009 Clayton and Allamakee Counties ___Upland Sandpiper* ___Yellow-bellied Flycatcher ___White-crowned Sparrow Updated by Natalie Randall, 2012 and Julia Dale, AmeriCorps, 2014 Effigy Mounds– populations of many Iowa birds, the Bird Minnesota, Wisconsin, A list of Iowa’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need Yellow River Forest Conservation Area (BCA) program was established by Illinois, and Iowa, the can be found at www.iowadnr.gov by entering the Iowa DNR Wildlife Driftless Area is a unique “Wildlife Action Plan” in the search. If you encounter Bureau in 2001. The present natural resource treasure that uncommon or rare species in this BCA, please contact model BCA encompasses at supports a wide variety of the Wildlife Diversity Program to report your least 10,000 acres of public plants and animals. sightings. CORE and/or private lands with approximately 25 percent of PARTNERSHIPS the area established as key PLANTS bird habitat. This concept The area is mostly wooded, The Effigy Mounds– Yellow River Forest Bird A BCA Model: Shaded areas Conservation area was created thanks to a partnership depict habitat protected for birds; is backed by research that and common tree species white is private land. Red-shouldered Hawk between the National Park Service, the US Fish and suggests viable bird Photo by Marlene Ehresman include oaks, maples, ash, populations require basswood, elms, and hickory. Wildlife Service, the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, conservation efforts at a landscape-oriented level. Each Jeweled Shooting Star (Dodecatheon amethystinum), a state- Iowa Audubon, the National Audubon Society, the Army Located along the Upper Mississippi River in Clayton and Corps of Engineers, the Allamakee and Clayton County Allamakee counties, the Effigy Mounds-Yellow River BCA also includes a large “core” area of protected high- endangered species, is quality habitat. Surrounding this core are private lands, found in the forest. Prairie Conservation Boards, the Natural Resources Forest Bird Conservation Area (BCA) was dedicated in Conservation Service, and The Nature Conservancy. July 2003. Also designated plus additional public tracts, all managed to provide good species such as Little as a Globally Important Bird bird habitat. Bluestem, Indian Grass, Area, due to the abundance and Prickly Pear can be of a Species of Global found on dry bluff tops, IMPORTANT BIRD AREAS Conservation Concern, the rock outcroppings, and Cerulean Warbler, this The Important Bird Areas (IBA) Program is a global steep slopes that face south BCA totals 135,000 acres effort to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and west. and contains the largest and other biodiversity. Designated IBAs include sites for breeding, wintering, and/ or migrating birds. By unfragmented forest ANIMALS remaining in Iowa. Every working to identify and implement conservation strategies, the IBA Program hopes to minimize the Effigy Mounds-Yellow species of warbler regularly Jeweled Shooting Star effects of habitat degradation and loss of birds and other River Forest BCA is home Photo by Peter Gorman seen in Iowa can be found in Cerulean Warbler this BCA, making it an ideal Photo by Stuart Tingley wildlife. to White-tailed Deer, Red Bird List for Effigy Mounds-Yellow River Forest place for spring and fall birding. Peregrine Falcons are and Gray Fox, Bobcat, Coyote, Beaver, Woodchuck, Muskrat, Raccoon, Fox Squirrels, Cottontail Rabbits, * = confirmed or likely area breeder once again nesting in the cliffs along the river, and the EFFIGY MOUNDS-YELLOW RIVER FOREST Iowa Wildlife Action Plan Migratory Species of Greatest Virginia Opossum, and other small mammals. Notable Conservation Need state-endangered Red-shouldered Hawk also nests