Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-necked Stilt at Floyd County in 1916
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Birds--Migration Rare birds
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1916-09-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Black-necked Stilts at Floyd County, IA in 1916. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication A preliminary list of the birds of Floyd County Iowa in Wilson Bulletin 28:130-138 by C.L. Fenton seen by John R. Waller, and referenced by another publication.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Black-necked Stilt
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Floyd County
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Common Poorwill at Grinnell in 1880
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1888-01-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Common Poorwills at Grinnell in Poweshiek County, IA in 1880. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley 1884-5 in the Division of Economic Ornithology Bulletin 2 by W.W. Cooke, and referenced by another publication. Clippings of History of Birds of Kansas by N.S. Goss and Life Histories of North American Birds from the Parrots to the Grackles with Special Reference to Their Breeding Habits and Eggs, by C. Bendire and B. Major are also included.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Common Poorwill
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Grinnell
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Groove-billed Ani near Iowa Lake in 1948
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds Birds--Collection and preservation Zoological specimens
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1948-12-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for a Groove-billed Ani near Iowa Lake in Osceola County, IA a few years before 1948. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication The Groove-billed Ani and Mountain Bluebird in Iowa Collection in Iowa Bird Life 18:70 by Jack W. Musgrove.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Groove-billed Ani
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Iowa Lake Park
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Great Black-backed Gull at Moline, IL in 1963
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1963-12-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for two Great Black-backed Gulls at Moline, IL on February 10, 1963. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication Audubon Field Notes 17:328 seen by Elton Fawks and Sergej Postupalsky.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Great Black-backed Gull
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Moline
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8
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Great Black-backed Gull in Iowa before 1870
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1870-01-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Great Black-backed Gulls in Iowa before 1870. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication A Catalogue of the Birds of Iowa by J.A. Allen, and referenced by another publication.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Great Black-backed Gull
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Iowa
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Laughing Gull at Lake Manawa in 1941
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1941-06-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for a Laughing Gull at Lake Manawa in Pottawattamie County, IA on March 25, 1941. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication The Laughing Gull in Pottawattamie County in Iowa Bird Life 11:36 by B.F. Stiles.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Laughing Gull
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Lake Manawa
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Laughing Gull at Blencoe in 1894
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1907-03-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for a Laughing Gull at Blencoe in Monona County, IA on October 10, 1894. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson seen by H.W. Kerr as reported by J.A. Dickinson and Isadore Trostler, and referenced by two other publications.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Laughing Gull
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Blencoe
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Laughing Gull at Mills and Pottawattamie Counties before 1907
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Birds--Migration Rare birds
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1907-03-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Laughing Gulls at Mills and Pottawattamie Counties, IA before 1907. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson and seen by Isadore Trostler, and referenced in another publication.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Laughing Gull
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Big Lake Lake Manawa Mills County Pottawattamie County
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Laughing Gull at Engineer's Contanment around 1819
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1823-01-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Laughing Gulls at Engineer's Contanment, IA around 1819. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Performed in the Years 1819 and 1820 by Edwin James and seen by Thomas Say, and referenced by two other publications.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Laughing Gull
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Iowa
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Red Phalarope at Amana Lake in 1940
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Correspondence Field notes
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Birds--Identification Birds--Migration Rare birds
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1940-06-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for three Red Phalaropes at Amana Lake in Iowa County, IA on May 17, 1940. Includes a record review document with votes, letters between Thomas Kent and Lillian Serbousek about the sighting, and the original sighting record found in the publication Shore Birds at Amana Lake in Iowa Bird Life 10:27 by Lillian Serbousek.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Red Phalarope
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Lily Pond
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Purple Sandpiper in Iowa before 1870
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1870-01-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Purple Sandpipers in Iowa before 1870. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication A Catalogue of the Birds of Iowa by J.A. Allen in White's Geological Survey in 1870, and referenced by another publication.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Purple Sandpiper
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Iowa
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-necked Stilt at Anderson Goose Lake in 1954
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Ornithology--Technique Rare birds
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1954-09-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for a Black-necked Stilt at Anderson Goose Lake in Hamilton County, IA on May 10, 1954. Includes a record review document with votes and the original sighting record found in the publication Bird notes from central Iowa in Iowa Bird Life 24:59 by Helen Gould King also seen by Phyllis Rose.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Black-necked Stilt
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Anderson Goose Lake
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-necked Stilt north of Lamont in 1924
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Animal migration--Climatic factors Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1930-12-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for two Black-necked Stilts north of Lamont in Buchanan County, IA on August 31, 1924. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Buchanan County Iowa in Wilson Bulletin 42:253-285 by F.J. Pierce seen by Frances and Robert I. Bordner, and referenced by another publication.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Black-necked Stilt
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Lamont
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20
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting of Great Black-backed Gull at Lake Manawa, 1978
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Bird watching Ornithology Ornithology--Societies, etc
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1978-12-06
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1993-08-19
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Rare birds documentation form
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Records Committee review for a Great Black-backed Gull at Lake Manawa in Pottawattamie County, IA on December 6, 1978. Includes a record review document with votes, articles in Nebraska Bird Review, Iowa Bird Life, and American Birds, and two documentation forms submitted to the committee.
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Green, Ruth
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Great Black-backed Gull
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Lake Manawa
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Lake Manawa, Council Bluffs, Iowa
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Most of Lake Manawa was frozen over at this time but there were small patches of open water. The bird was standing on the ice at the edge of one of these patches.
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The documentation form by Ruth Green forms the basis of this record. Another documentation form by Sandra S. Kovanda and James Kovanda, Jr. was submitted. | Elimination of similar species: There were only two gulls at this time there--this bird and the glaucous. | The original documentation form event lasted from approximately 16:30:00/17:00:00.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-necked Stilt at Sioux City in 1902
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Birds--Migration Rare birds
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1907-03-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Black-necked Stilts at Sioux City in Woodbury County, IA on April 20, 1902. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson seen by Guy C. Rich, and referenced by another publication.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Black-necked Stilt
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Sioux City
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-necked Stilt at Wayne County before 1907
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds
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1907-03-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Black-necked Stilts at Wayne County, IA before 1907. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson seen by Albert Brown, and referenced by another publication.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Black-necked Stilt
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Wayne County
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-necked Stilt at Fort Dodge in 1898
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds Hunting
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1907-03-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for several Black-necked Stilts at Fort Dodge in Webster County, IA during the summer of 1898. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson seen by Melvin P. Somes, and referenced by two other publications.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Black-necked Stilt
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Fort Dodge
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-necked Stilt at Hawarden in 1890
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Rare birds Hunting
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1907-03-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for a Black-necked Stilt at Hawarden in Sioux County, IA in 1890. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson seen by George H. Berry, and referenced by two other publications.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Black-necked Stilt
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Hawarden
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-necked Stilt at Mills and Pottawattamie Counties before 1907
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Birds--Identification Birds--Migration Rare birds
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1907-03-01
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1993-08-19
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Manuscript, graphic, and printed material
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Records Committee review for Black-necked Stilts at Mills and Pottawattamie Counties, IA before 1907. Includes a record review document with votes, the original sighting record found in the publication Birds of Iowa by Rudolph Martin Anderson seen by I.S. Trostler, and referenced by another publication.
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Iowa Ornithologists' Union Records Committee
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Black-necked Stilt
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Mills County Pottawattamie County
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-headed Grosbeak at Cedar Rapids, 1978
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes Photographs
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Bird watching Ornithology Ornithology--Societies, etc
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1978-12-01
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1993-08-19
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Rare birds documentation form
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Records Committee review for a Black-headed Grosbeak at Cedar Rapids in Linn County, IA on December 1, 1978. Includes a record review document with votes, a photograph, an article in Iowa Bird Life, and a documentation form submitted to the committee.
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Millikin, Sara L.
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Black-headed Grosbeak
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Cedar Rapids
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Usually on the ground where I had thrown seed
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along railway right of way near my home and on ground near house and feeders
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The documentation form by Sara L. Millikin is the earliest and the one that forms the basis of this record. Other observers include Pete Wickham, Lillian Serbousek, Roberta Appedahl, Fred Nissen, Weir Nelson, Karl Goellner, and Lucile Liljedahl. | The original documentation form event lasted from at daylight to 16:00:00.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Western Tanager at De Soto Bend National Wildlife Refuge, 1969
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Bird watching Ornithology Ornithology--Societies, etc
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1969-06-22
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1993-08-19
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Rare birds documentation form
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Records Committee review for a Western Tanager at De Soto Bend National Wildlife Refuge in Harrison County, IA on June 22, 1969. Includes a record review document with votes and an article reviewed by the committee.
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Bramel, Grover C.
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Western Tanager
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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge
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De Soto Bend National Wildlife Refuge
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The article by Grover C. Bramel forms the basis of this record. | Elimination of similar species: [...] It was identified as a male Western Tanager in full breeding plumage, by the following: Size; comparable to more common Scarlet Tanager or Baltimore Oriole; [...] At about the same time and location a bird of similar appearance except for the red face, was seen flying between trees, and may have been the female Western Tanager. | The original documentation form event lasted around a minute.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Western Tanager at Frank Starr Park, 1969
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Bird watching Ornithology Ornithology--Societies, etc
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1969-05-08
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1993-08-19
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Rare birds documentation form
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Records Committee review for a Western Tanager at Frank Starr Park in Buena Vista County, IA on May 8, 1969. Includes one record review document with votes and a documentation article submitted to the committee.
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Crocker, Virginia R.
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Western Tanager
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Frank Starr Park
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[...] West Park is a state-owned 13 acre strip of land between Storm Lake and Little Storm Lake on the west side of Iowa 110.
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The article by Virginia Crocker is the only one reviewed and forms the basis of this record. Other observers include Ruth Thornton. | Elimination of similar species: [...] Many insects were flying, and we were watching the large number of Myrtle Warblers feeding on the insects when Ruth exclaimed, "What is that bird with the bright red head?--I've never seen one like it before." Then the bird came into full view. The brilliant colors were breath-taking, and we had little trouble identifying it as a male Western Tanager. | The original documentation form event occurred around 10:00:00.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Townsend's Warbler at Fejervary Park, 1950
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Bird watching Ornithology Ornithology--Societies, etc
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1950-05-07
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1993-08-19
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Rare birds documentation form
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Records Committee review for a Townsend's Warbler at Fejervary Park in Davenport in Scott County, IA on May 7, 1950. Includes a record review document with votes and a documentation article reviewed by the committee .
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Feeney, Thomas J.
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Townsend's Warbler
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Fejervary Park
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[...] in a ravine at Fejuvary [sic] Park, Davenport.
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The documentation article by Thomas J. Feeney is the only one submitted and forms the basis of this record. Another observer includes Thomas Morrissey. | Elimination of similar species: [...] the distinctive face pattern, the combination of black crown and striped sides made identification certain. | Observation lasted for ten minutes.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-backed Woodpecker east of Hull, 1979
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Bird watching Ornithology Ornithology--Societies, etc
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1979-05-13
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1993-08-19
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Rare birds documentation form
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Records Committee review for a Black-backed Woodpecker east of Hull in Sioux County, IA on May 13, 1979. Includes one record review document with votes and a documentation article reviewed by the committee.
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Blankenspoor, Gilbert W.
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Black-backed Woodpecker
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Hull
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[...] grove of trees on my parents' farm, located four miles east of Hull in Sioux County, Iowa
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The documentation form by Gilbert W. Blankenspoor is the only one submitted and forms the basis of this record. | Elimination of similar species: [...] Identifying marks such as the golden crown, black-back and three-toed condition were clearly visible. | The original documentation form event occurred around 13:00:00.
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Records Committee review for rare bird sighting for Black-backed Woodpecker north of Boyden, 1978
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Administrative records Clippings (information artifacts) Field notes
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Bird watching Ornithology Ornithology--Societies, etc
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1978-12-23
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1993-08-19
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Rare birds documentation form
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Records Committee review for a Black-backed Woodpecker north of Boyden in Sioux County, IA on December 23, 1978. Includes a record review document with votes, two articles in Iowa Bird Life, and a documentation form submitted to the committee.
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Stravers, Jay A.
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Three-toed Woodpecker
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Boyden
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2 1/2 miles North of Boyden Iowa on east side of county highway L14
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General: 3000 m farm grove in wide open (formerly prairie) gently rolling farm land. Specific: grove is a thick growth of shrubs, weedy plants, Ash trees, and American + Chinese Elms. many of the Elms are dead and fallen. There are 2 rows (closely spaced) of Ponderosa Pine on the North side of the grove. The grove is surrounded with mature honeysuckle shrubs. Ground covered with 0.5 m. of snow in the grove.
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The documentation form by Jay Stravers is the only one submitted and forms the basis of this record. Another observer was Loren Stravers, Henry O. Stegeman, and Aaron Stegeman. | Elimination of similar species: There are really no other species that could be confused other than possibly a Pileated Woodpecker who is much too large + has 4 toes instead of 3 | The original documentation form event lasted from approximately 13:00:00/14:30:00.
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