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Title	Genres	Topics	Date (Start)	Date (End)	Type	Description	Creator/Author	Birds	Locations

Field report for the Iowa City area, April 16, 1977	Field notes	Bird watching	1977-04-16	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Number of sightings by bird species in various locations around the Iowa City area as reported by Thomas A. Kent and Thomas K. Shires, April 16, 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of spring 1977.		Horned Grebe Short-eared Owl Brown Thrasher Common Snipe Lincoln's Sparrow Northern Pintail House Wren Western Meadowlark	Lake Macbride State Park Sandy Beach Public Use Area Swan Lake Green Castle (historical)	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	1
Field report, May 7, 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Weather	1977-05-07	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Number of sightings by bird species as reported by Thomas A. Kent and Thomas K. Shires, May 7, 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of spring 1977.		Cooper's Hawk Marbled Godwit Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Black-and-white Warbler Eastern Kingbird Golden-winged Warbler Great Horned Owl Wilson's Phalarope Marsh Wren Wood Thrush Palm Warbler Dickcissel Black-crowned Night Heron Black-billed Cuckoo Great Crested Flycatcher Red-eyed Vireo Northern Rough-winged Swallow Swainson's Thrush Blue-winged Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Northern Parula Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Ovenbird Scarlet Tanager Tennessee Warbler Greater White-fronted Goose Kentucky Warbler Eastern Whip-poor-will Bank Swallow Sandhill Crane Eastern Screech-Owl	Iowa	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	1
Charlotte Scott letter to Nicholas S. Scott regarding blue-listed birds, June 7, 1977	Correspondence Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Conservation Birds--Nests	1977-06-07	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Annotated letter from Charlotte Scott to Nicholas S. Halmi reporting blue-listed birds in the Seymour, Iowa area, June 7, 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly Report of spring 1977.	Scott, Charlotte	American Kestrel Upland Sandpiper Double-crested Cormorant Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow Cattle Egret Piping Plover	Appanoose County Rathbun Lake Seymour	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	1
Field report	Field notes	Bird watching Migratory birds	N/A	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Annotated report of bird sightings submitted by Dean F. Stauffer. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of spring 1977.	Stauffer, Dean F. , 1953-	Osprey Connecticut Warbler	Guthrie County Iowa Panora	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	1
Field notes for spring at Red Rock area, 1977	Checklists Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Counting Birds--Migration Nest building Women conservationists Ducks--Counting	1977-03-01	1977-05-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Field notes and checklist of birds observed in the Red Rock area and during the Spring of 1977 submitted by Jon Stravers and Gladys Black. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of spring 1977.	Black, Gladys Stravers, Jon	Red-tailed Hawk Double-crested Cormorant Cattle Egret Osprey Cliff Swallow	Lake Red Rock	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	1
More Gray Jays in Iowa		Bird watching Birds--Behavior Zoological specimens	1976-08-01	1977-02-28	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Report on Gray Jays sighted in Iowa in the fall of 1976 and winter of 1976/77 by Nicholas, S Halmi. This document was written as a response to an article by Gladys Black that was published in the Des Moines Register. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of spring 1977.	Halmi, Nicholas S.	Gray Jay	Cedar Falls Decorah Mason City	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	1
Iowa Ornithologists' Union, Quarterly field report, summer 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-01	1977-07-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Quarterly field report for the summer of 1977. This item is a draft with numerous manual annotations.	Iowa Ornithologists' Union		Iowa	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Iowa Ornithologists' Union field check list, Betty Walters, summer 1977	Checklists Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-01	1977-07-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Iowa Ornithologists' Union field check list submitted by Betty Walters. Most of the sightings on the document were in Essex in Page County; although, several took place at Riverton in Fremont County. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Walters, Betty	Pied-billed Grebe Blue-winged Teal Western Kingbird Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Great Crested Flycatcher Cliff Swallow	Essex Riverton	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Bird sightings checklist, summer 1977	Checklists Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-01	1977-07-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Bird sightings checklist, summer 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.		Black-bellied Whistling-Duck	Clear Lake Iowa	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
James C. Bednarz letter to Nicholas S. Halmi, regarding bird sightings, July 15, 1977	Correspondence Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-07-15	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Letter from James C. Bednarz to Nicholas S. Halmi, July 15, 1977. The letter discusses bird sightings Bednarz made while studying Red-Shouldered Hawks in Northeast Iowa. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly Report of summer 1977.	Bednarz, James C. (James Cary)	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Yellow-headed Blackbird Yellow-Crowned Night Heron Wood Duck Pileated Woodpecker Wild Turkey Great Egret	Allamakee County New Albin Yellow River State Forest Waukon Junction	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Summer bird report, 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-01	1977-07-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Summer bird report of sightings at Lake Red Rock and Pleasant Grove Township submitted by Gladys Black, 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Black, Gladys	Upland Sandpiper Loggerhead Shrike Ruby-throated Hummingbird Western Kingbird American Woodcock Forster's Tern Great Blue Heron Green Heron	Ankeny Lake Red Rock Lamoni Pleasantville Pleasant Grove Township West Des Moines Bedford Colyn Wildlife Management Area	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Field reports, summer 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-01	1977-07-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Field report of bird sightings submitted by Woodward H. Brown, summer 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Brown, Woodward H.	Upland Sandpiper Ringed Turtle-Dove Blue-winged Warbler	Polk County Moeckley Prairie	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Field report, summer, June 1 through July 31, 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Habitat Birds--Research Weather	1977-06-01	1977-07-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Field report of bird sightings for summer, June 1 through July 31, 1977, submitted by Gene Burns. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Burns, R. E. (Rollin Eugene)	Upland Sandpiper Yellow-headed Blackbird Vesper Sparrow Loggerhead Shrike Western Kingbird Louisiana Waterthrush Blue Grosbeak	Harrison County Jamaica Monona County Coon Rapids McCord Pond State Wildlife Management Area Riverside Park Templeton	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Field reports, summer 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-01	1977-07-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Field report of bird sightings for summer, 1977, submitted by George E. Crossley. Crossley reports his first sighting of Yellow-Headed Blackbirds at Mud Lake Park near Dubuque since 1941.This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Crossley, George E.	Yellow-headed Blackbird Purple Martin Yellow-breasted Chat Eastern Bluebird Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Pileated Woodpecker Wild Turkey Barn Swallow	Dubuque Swiss Valley Nature Center Mud Lake	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
American Birds and Iowa Bird Life report, July 31, 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-07-31	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	American Birds and Iowa Bird Life sightings report from June 1 through July 31, 1977, submitted by Rich DeCoster. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	DeCoster, R. J. (Richard Joseph)	Broad-winged Hawk White-eyed Vireo Bell's Vireo Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Yellow-breasted Chat Eastern Towhee Ruby-throated Hummingbird Orchard Oriole Yellow-Crowned Night Heron Olive-sided Flycatcher Cerulean Warbler Northern Harrier	Cone Marsh Wildlife Management Area Coralville Lake Hickory Hill Park Iowa City Iowa Palisades-Kepler State Park Williams Prairie State Preserve Shimek State Forest Swan Lake	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Field report	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-01	1977-07-31	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Field report of bird sightings submitted by James J. Dinsmore. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Dinsmore, James J.	Broad-winged Hawk Double-crested Cormorant Eared Grebe American White Pelican Red-breasted Merganser American Wigeon Hooded Merganser Osprey Lesser Scaup Northern Pintail Northern Shoveler Gadwall	Dan Green Slough Wildlife Management Area Deweys Pasture State Game Management Area Ingham Lake State Game Management Area Ledges State Park Marble Lake Ruthven Trumbull Lake West Okoboji Lake Mud Lake Hottes Lake Wildlife Management Area	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Joan K. Fowler letter to Peter C. Petersen regarding bird sightings, June 28, 1977	Correspondence Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-28	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Letter from Joan K. Fowler to Peter C. Petersen regarding bird sightings, June 28, 1977. The document mentions a June 4 sighting of a Henslow's Sparrow at Hayden Prairie in Chester Iowa. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Fowler, Joan K.	Bobolink Henslow's Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Marsh Wren	Hayden Prairie State Wildlife Area	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Douglas C. Harr letter to Peter C. Petersen regarding bird sightings, June 23, 1977	Correspondence Field notes	Bird banding Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-23	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Letter from Douglas C. Harr to Peter C. Petersen regarding bird sightings, June 23, 1977. The document includes sightings of Black-Crowned Night Herons and Forester Terns at West Hottes Lake in Dickinson County, Canvasback Hens at Mud Lake in Clay County, and a Double Crested Cormorant at Lilly Lake in Dickinson County. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Harr, Douglas C.	Double-crested Cormorant Canvasback Forster's Tern Black-crowned Night Heron Canada Goose	Lily Lake West Hottes Lake Mud Lake	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Darwin Koenig letter to Nicholas S. Halmi regarding bird sightings, August 2, 1977	Correspondence Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-08-02	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Letter from Darwin Koenig to Nicholas S. Halmi regarding bird sightings, August 2, 1977. Koenig made some of these sightings on a trip throughout Iowa with Joseph P. Schaufenbuel. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Koenig, Darwin	Red-shouldered Hawk Cooper's Hawk Upland Sandpiper Least Flycatcher Say's Phoebe Black-and-white Warbler American White Pelican Golden-winged Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Western Kingbird Acadian Flycatcher Veery Chestnut-sided Warbler Cerulean Warbler Hooded Warbler Kentucky Warbler Yellow Warbler	Ledges State Park Marquette Plymouth County Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge Waubonsie State Park Yellow River State Forest DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge Brush Creek Canyon State Park Harpers Ferry Lock and Dam 9 Sny Magill North Cedar Creek Wildlife Management Area Pikes Peak State Park	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Field records, May 31 to August 7, 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-05-31	1977-08-07	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Field records from May 31 to August 7, 1977, submitted by Michael C. Newlon. A note regarding the sighting of a Marsh Hawk (also known as a Northern Harrier) and its chicks at Williams Prairie is underlined. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Newlon, Michael C.	Yellow-breasted Chat Blue Grosbeak Northern Harrier	Cedar Rapids Williams Prairie State Preserve	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Peter C. Petersen letter to Nicholas S. Halmi, regarding bird sightings, July 30, 1977	Correspondence Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-07-30	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Letter from Peter C. Petersen to Nicholas S. Halmi regarding bird sightings, July 30, 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Petersen, Peter C.	Bald Eagle Least Flycatcher Osprey Bufflehead Little Tern	Goose Lake Sabula Clayton County	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Field reports, summer 1977	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-08-05	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Field report for summer 1977 bird sightings, August 5, 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Schaufenbuel, Joseph P.	Upland Sandpiper Double-crested Cormorant Henslow's Sparrow American White Pelican Long-billed Dowitcher Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Black-crowned Night Heron American Wigeon Solitary Sandpiper Willet Short-billed Dowitcher Green-winged Teal Gadwall	Cresco Sweet Marsh Saint Lucas Lake Meyer	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Iowa foray 1977, Washington Township, Fremont County, June 3-7, annotated list of birds	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-06-03	1977-06-07	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Annotated list of birds sightings seen along several routes located in Washington Township in Fremont County as well as parts of the Riverton Wildlife Management Area and the Township of Benton, June 3-7. Observers include Ross W. Silcock, Dean M. Roosa, and Jon Stravers. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.		Alder Flycatcher Cedar Waxwing Black-and-white Warbler Olive-sided Flycatcher Tree Swallow Louisiana Waterthrush Scarlet Tanager American Coot Northern Shoveler Kentucky Warbler Great Blue Heron Cliff Swallow Green Heron	Hamburg Riverton Wildlife Management Area Waubonsie State Park Washington Township Benton Township Pinky's Glen	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Dean F. Stauffer letter to Nicholas S. Halmi regarding bird sightings, July 27, 1977	Correspondence Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-07-27	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Letter from Dean F. Stauffer to Nicholas S. Halmi regarding bird sightings in Guthrie County, July 27, 1977. Notes regarding Red-Shouldered Hawks, Short-Eared Owls, and Shrikes are underlined. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Stauffer, Dean F. , 1953-	Red-shouldered Hawk White-eyed Vireo Black-and-white Warbler Grasshopper Sparrow Short-eared Owl Orchard Oriole Lark Sparrow Dickcissel Veery Hairy Woodpecker	Guthrie County	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2
Field reports for the Red Rock Area	Field notes	Bird watching Birds--Research	1977-07-25	N/A	Manuscript, graphic, and printed material	Field report for the Red Rock area submitted by Jon Stravers, July 25, 1977. This item was used as supporting documentation for the Iowa Ornithologists' Union Quarterly field report of summer 1977.	Stravers, Jon	Killdeer Yellow-billed Cuckoo Greater Yellowlegs Forster's Tern Spotted Sandpiper Caspian Tern Yellow Warbler Black Tern Northern Harrier Cliff Swallow	Whitebreast Recreation Area Red Rock Township	Iowa Ornithologists' Union \| MS 166	18	2