Bird Checklist for Yellow River Forest/Effigy Mounds National Mounument BCA - 172 Species Recorded

These species have been recorded at this site.  If you have additions, please consider adding your data to the Field Reports of the Iowa Ornithologists' Union, the on-going source for our data. Species of conservation concern (IBA criteria species) are indicated in red.

Iowa Audubon

Birds of Iowa

  • Trumpeter Swan
    © Doug Harr
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
    © Doug Harr
  • Scarlet Tanager
    © Doug Harr
  • Common Yellowthroat
    © Doug Harr
  • Downy Woodpecker
    © Doug Harr
  • Hermit Thrush
    © Doug Harr
  • Pine Siskin
    © Doug Harr
  • Blue Jay
    © Doug Harr
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
    © Doug Harr
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
    © Doug Harr
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
    © Doug Harr
  • Eastern Bluebird
    © Doug Harr
  • Winter Wren
    © Doug Harr
  • Black-billed Magpie
    © Doug Harr
  • Yellow-breasted Chat
    © Doug Harr
  • Mississippi Kite
    © Doug Harr
  • Pied-billed Grebe
    © Doug Harr
  • Turkey Vulture
    © Doug Harr
  • Red-eyed Vireo
    © Doug Harr
  • Blue-winged Teal
    © Doug Harr
  • Common Nighthawk
    © Doug Harr
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
    © Doug Harr
  • Gray Partridge
    © Doug Harr
  • American Redstart
    © Doug Harr
  • Lesser Scaup
    © Doug Harr
  • Fox Sparrow
    © Doug Harr
  • Song Sparrow
    © Doug Harr
  • Merlin
    © Doug Harr
  • Broad-winged Hawk
    © Doug Harr
  • Prairie Warbler
    © Doug Harr
  • Great Blue Heron
    © Doug Harr
  • Pine Warbler
    © Doug Harr
  • Yellow-headed Blackbird
    © Doug Harr
  • White-breasted Nuthatch
    © Doug Harr
  • Western Meadowlark
    © Doug Harr
  • American Goldfinch
    © Doug Harr
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird
    © Doug Harr
  • Tree Swallow
    © Doug Harr
  • Barred Owl
    © Doug Harr
  • Belted Kingfisher
    © Doug Harr
  • Lark Sparrow
    © Doug Harr
  • Mourning Dove
    © Doug Harr
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet
    © Doug Harr
  • Dickcissel
    © Doug Harr
  • Ring-billed Gull
    © Doug Harr
  • Tufted Titmouse
    © Doug Harr
  • Northern Shoveler
    © Doug Harr
  • Cedar Waxwing
    © Doug Harr
  • American White Pelican
    © Doug Harr
  • Northern Pintail
    © Doug Harr
  • Indigo Bunting
    © Doug Harr
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
    © Doug Harr
  • Least Sandpiper
    © Doug Harr
  • Common Gallinule
    © Doug Harr
  • American Bittern
    © Doug Harr
  • Eastern Kingbird
    © Doug Harr
  • Eastern Towhee
    © Doug Harr
  • Yellow Warbler
    © Doug Harr
  • House Finch
    © Doug Harr
  • Northern House Wren
    © Doug Harr
  • Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
    © Doug Harr
  • Northern Cardinal
    © Doug Harr
  • Sora
    © Doug Harr

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