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U.S.A. -- IOWA

Big Day (Bird Race)

29 March 2000

by Pam Allen
 

Big Day Statistics:

Species List:

Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant
American Coot
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Baird’s Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Common Snipe
American Woodcock
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Long-eared Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
American Pipit
Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling
Northern Cardinalotted Towhee
American Tree Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Reid Allen
RAllenBird@aol.com