Iowa BBA II

BBA II Results

• Overview
• Comparing Surrounding States
• Success Stories
• The State of Iowa's Breeding Birds
• Status of IBA Criteria Species

This chart gives a brief look at all of the designated criteria species for the Iowa Important Bird Areas and their nesting status change (percent of blocks where confirmed or probable) from BBA I to BBA II. Further analysis is necessary to determine the significance of these changes. An asterisk (*) preceding the species name indicates a new breeder compared to the last BBA.

Greater Prairie-Chicken       Black-billed Cuckoo       Chuck-will's-widow       King Rail       Common Gallinule       Piping Plover       American Woodcock       Least Tern       Black Tern       Forster's Tern       American Bittern       Least Bittern       Black-crowned Night Heron       Northern Harrier       Bald Eagle       Red-shouldered Hawk       Broad-winged Hawk       Barn Owl       Long-eared Owl       Short-eared Owl       Pileated Woodpecker       *Peregrine Falcon       White-eyed Vireo       Bell's Vireo       Loggerhead Shrike       Veery       Wood Thrush       Grasshopper Sparrow       Henslow's Sparrow       Yellow-breasted Chat       Bobolink       Worm-eating Warbler       Kentucky Warbler       Hooded Warbler       Cerulean Warbler