Ducks on the south lake near the bridge, 11/20/20. (Kevin Kane)
A total of 71 avian species (plus 1 sp.) was recorded this month, ranking this month as the 2nd highest November (tied with November 2011) among 15 years of records.
Based on citations in the 3rd Edition of “The Birds of Story County, Iowa,” by Stephen J. Dinsmore and Hank Zaletel (2001), plus my personal updates to the records, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet sighting on the 10th may be a new extreme late Fall record for Story County.
Listed below, following the species’ names, are the date(s) of sighting(s), plus the occasional miscellaneous information regarding numbers, gender (♂=male, ♀=female), age (im=immature, ju=juvenile, abp=adult breeding plumage, ad=adult, anb=adult non-breeding), color phase (b=blue, w=white), and location (BY=back yard, FY=front yard). The order follows the 52nd Supplement (2011) to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North American Birds and the 11th Supplement to the 7th Edition (1998).
AVIAN
SNOW GOOSE: 19 (1 ad w + 2 im w + 2 b), 25 (6), 28 (1 ad w), 29 (5 ad w + 3 b)
ROSS’S GOOSE: 19 (1), 22 (1), 29 (1)
CACKLING GOOSE: 12 (24+), 19 (60+), 22, 25, 27 (~17), 28-29
CANADA GOOSE: 1-5, 7-30
WOOD DUCK: 2 (1♂), 24 (1♀), 26 (2♂ + 1♀), 27-28 (2♀), 29 (1♀)
GADWALL: 1 (1♂), 4 (13), 5 (6), 11 (9♂ + 4♀), 22 (2), 23 (15)
AMERICAN WIGEON: 11 (1♀), 24-25 (1♂ + 1♀), 26-29 (1♂ + 2♀)
MALLARD: 1-5, 7 (77+). 8-12, 13 (120+), 14 (249), 15 (52), 16 (98+), 17-23, 24 (200+), 25-30
NORTHERN SHOVELER: 1 (3♀), 2 (1♀), 4 (17), 8 (1♂), 11 (4), 12 (1♂ + 1♀), 14 (1♂), 16 (2♀),
22 (20), 23-24 (2), 27 (1♂ + 2♀), 28 (4)
NORTHERN PINTAIL: 1 (1♂), 11 (10♂ + 7♀), 22 (1♂)
GREEN-WINGED TEAL: 1 (10), 2 (1♀), 4 (1♂), 7 (1♀), 13-14 (1♀), 22 (1♂ + 4♀), 24 (1♂ + 1♀),
25 (1♀), 27 (4♂ + 1♀), 28 (3♂ + 2♀), 29 (1♂)
CANVASBACK: 11 (1♂), 13 (2♂ + 2♀), 20 (2♂ + 1♀)
REDHEAD: 1 (2♀), 12 (15♂ + 16♀), 19 (2♂), 22 (9), 29 (1♂)
RING-NECKED DUCK: 1 (1♀), 2 (1♂ + 1♀), 3-4 (1♂), 11 (1♂), 12 (1♂ + 11♀), 16 (1♂ + 2♀)
LESSER SCAUP: 10 (1♂), 11 (36+), 12 (9♂ + 11♀), 13 (1♂ + 2♀), 22 (3), 24 (17), 25 (3), 27 (20),
29 (4♂), 30 (1♀)
BUFFLEHEAD: 12 (4♂ + 4♀), 13 (1♀), 22 (4♂ + 8♀), 27 (2♀)
HOODED MERGANSER: 2 (4♂), 26-27 (2♀)
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER: 17-19 (1♀)
RUDDY DUCK: 11-12 (1♀), 13 (7), 20 (1♀), 24 (2)
RING-NECKED PHEASANT: 1 (8+), 3-4 (+ 1♂ BY), 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 14-16, 18-19, 21-23, 24 (1♂ BY +),
25-26, 28, 30
PIED-BILLED GREBE: 1 (2), 2 (5), 3 (1), 4 (3), 7 (1), 10 (1), 13 (1), 15 (1)
HORNED GREBE: 2 (2), 4 (9)
DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT: 1 (1), 11 (2)
GREAT BLUE HERON: 1 (1)
BALD EAGLE: 5 (1 im), 7 (1 im), 9 (3 ad), 11 (1 im + 1 ad), 12 (1 im), 28 (1 ad)
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK: 20 (1 im), 25 (1 im BY), 29 (1 ad BY)
COOPER’S HAWK: 4 (1 ad BY), 9 (1 ad BY), 22 (1 ad), 23 (1), 24 (1 ad BY),
RED-TAILED HAWK: 1 (1), 4-5 (2), 7 (2), 9-11 (2), 12 (3), 13 (2), 15 (1), 17 (3), 18 (1), 22 (1), 23 (2),
25 (1 BY), 28 (3), 29-30 (1)
AMERICAN COOT: 1 (6), 2 (59), 3 (13), 4-5 (9), 7 (9), 8 (2), 9 (4), 10 (2), 11 (10), 12 (5), 13 (10),
14 (4), 15 (6), 16-17 (4), 18-23 (3), 24 (6), 25 (4), 26 (3), 27 (6), 28-30 (4)
KILLDEER: 11 (16), 12 (2)
BONAPARTE’S GULL: 11 (21), 12 (5)
FRANKLIN’S GULL: 11 (4)
RING-BILLED GULL: 3 (2), 11 (45+), 13 (2), 14 (10), 23 (64), 24 (3+)
HERRING GULL: 11 (1 im)
Gull sp.: 18 (1)
MOURNING DOVE: 1, 3, 8, 10-12, 14, 22
BARRED OWL: 17 (1)
BELTED KINGFISHER: 2-3 (1), 7 (1), 9 (1), 14 (1♂), 16 (1♀), 19 (1), 20 (1♀), 28 (1♀)
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER: 1-5, 9, 11-13, 17-20, 22-23, 28-30
DOWNY WOODPECKER: 2, 4-5, 7-8, 10-19, 22-30
HAIRY WOODPECKER: 3-5, 7, 13, 17
NORTHERN FLICKER (Yellow-shafted): 10 (1)
NORTHERN SHRIKE: 1-2 (1), 10 (1), 17-18 (1), 28 (1), 30 (1)
BLUE JAY: 1-5, 7-10, 12-13, 15-19, 22, 24-25, 27-30
AMERICAN CROW: 1-5, 7-18, 20-25, 27-30
BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE: 1-5, 7, 9-18, 20-30
WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH: 1-5, 7-11, 13-14, 16-18, 22, 24-25, 27, 29
BROWN CREEPER: 4 (1)
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET: 7 (1), 10 (1)
EASTERN BLUEBIRD: 4 (5)
AMERICAN ROBIN: 12 (1 BY), 17-18 (1)
EUROPEAN STARLING: 3, 10, 13, 16-17, 22, 24, 27-29
CEDAR WAXWING: 9 (2 BY)
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (Myrtle): 8 (1)
AMERICAN TREE SPARROW: 1-5, 7-30
FOX SPARROW: 1-3 (1 BY), 9 (1 BY), 11 (1), 16 (1 BY), 20 (1)
SONG SPARROW: 1-4, 7-9, 15 (1), 21-22 (1)
SWAMP SPARROW: 1 (2), 3 (1), 4 (4), 5 (3), 7 (2), 10 (1), 21 (3), 24 (1), 29 (1)
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW: 4 (5), 10-12 (1 BY)
HARRIS’S SPARROW: 1 (10), 2 (5 + 1 BY), 4 (2 BY), 5 (1 BY), 9 (2), 10 (1 BY), 11 (1 BY + 3),
12 (5), 13-14 (1 BY), 23 (1), 24 (1 BY)
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW: 2 (4), 3 (3), 4 (2), 9 (2), 12 (1)
DARK-EYED JUNCO (Slate-colored): 1-5, 7-30
NORTHERN CARDINAL: 2-5, 8-10, 12-22, 24-30
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD: 1-2, 5 (1), 7 (12), 8, 18, 19-20 (1), 22 (1)
BREWER’S BLACKBIRD: 2 (8♂ + 1♀)
COMMON GRACKLE: 2, 7 (1), 29 (1)
BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD: 10 (1♂ BY)
HOUSE FINCH: 1-5, 7-20, 22-30
COMMON REDPOLL: 7 (~12), 9 (16), 18 (7), 19 (12), 24 (9+)
PINE SISKIN: 5 (1 BY), 7 (~20), 24 (2 BY)
AMERICAN GOLDFINCH: 2-5, 7, 9-13, 16-19, 21-25
HOUSE SPARROW: 1-5, 7-30
MAMMALIAN
AMERICAN MINK: 9 (1)
WHITE-TAILED DEER: 1 (1♀ w/1 yearling), 2 (1 FY, 1♂ w/spike antler), 5 (2♂ + 1♀ w/2 yearlings +
1), 7 (1♂ + 1♀ w/2 yearlings + 1), 8 (2♂ + 1), 9 (1♂ BY + 1♀ w/1 yearling FY),
10 (1 BY + 3♂), 11 (4), 13 (1), 14 (1♀ w/2 yearlings), 15 (6 + 1♂), 16 (1♂ + 2),
17 (3♂ + 1), 18 (1), 19 (1♂ + 6), 20 (2), 23 (2 BY), 24 (3), 26 (8), 29 (2♂ + 2)
FOX SQUIRREL: 3-4, 9-15, 17-18, 21-25, 27-30
MEADOW VOLE: 25 (1)
EASTERN COTTONTAIL: 1-2, 5, 7-12, 14-16, 18, 20, 22-23, 36-30
REPTILIAN
NORTHERN PAINTED TURTLE: 3 (5), 8 (1), 10 (2), 14-16 (1), 19-21 (1)
AMPHIBIAN
BULLFROG: 1, 3 (1), 10 (2), 20 (2)
LEPIDOPTERA
ORANGE SULPHURE: 3 (3), 10 (1), 18 (1)
WOOLLY BEAR (Isabella Tiger Moth): 8 (1), 14 (1)
Wolfgang Oesterreich
Ames
A total of 71 avian species (plus 1 sp.) was recorded this month, ranking this month as the 2nd highest November (tied with November 2011) among 15 years of records.
Based on citations in the 3rd Edition of “The Birds of Story County, Iowa,” by Stephen J. Dinsmore and Hank Zaletel (2001), plus my personal updates to the records, the Ruby-crowned Kinglet sighting on the 10th may be a new extreme late Fall record for Story County.
Listed below, following the species’ names, are the date(s) of sighting(s), plus the occasional miscellaneous information regarding numbers, gender (♂=male, ♀=female), age (im=immature, ju=juvenile, abp=adult breeding plumage, ad=adult, anb=adult non-breeding), color phase (b=blue, w=white), and location (BY=back yard, FY=front yard). The order follows the 52nd Supplement (2011) to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list of North American Birds and the 11th Supplement to the 7th Edition (1998).
AVIAN
SNOW GOOSE: 19 (1 ad w + 2 im w + 2 b), 25 (6), 28 (1 ad w), 29 (5 ad w + 3 b)
ROSS’S GOOSE: 19 (1), 22 (1), 29 (1)
CACKLING GOOSE: 12 (24+), 19 (60+), 22, 25, 27 (~17), 28-29
CANADA GOOSE: 1-5, 7-30
WOOD DUCK: 2 (1♂), 24 (1♀), 26 (2♂ + 1♀), 27-28 (2♀), 29 (1♀)
GADWALL: 1 (1♂), 4 (13), 5 (6), 11 (9♂ + 4♀), 22 (2), 23 (15)
AMERICAN WIGEON: 11 (1♀), 24-25 (1♂ + 1♀), 26-29 (1♂ + 2♀)
MALLARD: 1-5, 7 (77+). 8-12, 13 (120+), 14 (249), 15 (52), 16 (98+), 17-23, 24 (200+), 25-30
NORTHERN SHOVELER: 1 (3♀), 2 (1♀), 4 (17), 8 (1♂), 11 (4), 12 (1♂ + 1♀), 14 (1♂), 16 (2♀),
22 (20), 23-24 (2), 27 (1♂ + 2♀), 28 (4)
NORTHERN PINTAIL: 1 (1♂), 11 (10♂ + 7♀), 22 (1♂)
GREEN-WINGED TEAL: 1 (10), 2 (1♀), 4 (1♂), 7 (1♀), 13-14 (1♀), 22 (1♂ + 4♀), 24 (1♂ + 1♀),
25 (1♀), 27 (4♂ + 1♀), 28 (3♂ + 2♀), 29 (1♂)
CANVASBACK: 11 (1♂), 13 (2♂ + 2♀), 20 (2♂ + 1♀)
REDHEAD: 1 (2♀), 12 (15♂ + 16♀), 19 (2♂), 22 (9), 29 (1♂)
RING-NECKED DUCK: 1 (1♀), 2 (1♂ + 1♀), 3-4 (1♂), 11 (1♂), 12 (1♂ + 11♀), 16 (1♂ + 2♀)
LESSER SCAUP: 10 (1♂), 11 (36+), 12 (9♂ + 11♀), 13 (1♂ + 2♀), 22 (3), 24 (17), 25 (3), 27 (20),
29 (4♂), 30 (1♀)
BUFFLEHEAD: 12 (4♂ + 4♀), 13 (1♀), 22 (4♂ + 8♀), 27 (2♀)
HOODED MERGANSER: 2 (4♂), 26-27 (2♀)
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER: 17-19 (1♀)
RUDDY DUCK: 11-12 (1♀), 13 (7), 20 (1♀), 24 (2)
RING-NECKED PHEASANT: 1 (8+), 3-4 (+ 1♂ BY), 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 14-16, 18-19, 21-23, 24 (1♂ BY +),
25-26, 28, 30
PIED-BILLED GREBE: 1 (2), 2 (5), 3 (1), 4 (3), 7 (1), 10 (1), 13 (1), 15 (1)
HORNED GREBE: 2 (2), 4 (9)
DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT: 1 (1), 11 (2)
GREAT BLUE HERON: 1 (1)
BALD EAGLE: 5 (1 im), 7 (1 im), 9 (3 ad), 11 (1 im + 1 ad), 12 (1 im), 28 (1 ad)
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK: 20 (1 im), 25 (1 im BY), 29 (1 ad BY)
COOPER’S HAWK: 4 (1 ad BY), 9 (1 ad BY), 22 (1 ad), 23 (1), 24 (1 ad BY),
RED-TAILED HAWK: 1 (1), 4-5 (2), 7 (2), 9-11 (2), 12 (3), 13 (2), 15 (1), 17 (3), 18 (1), 22 (1), 23 (2),
25 (1 BY), 28 (3), 29-30 (1)
AMERICAN COOT: 1 (6), 2 (59), 3 (13), 4-5 (9), 7 (9), 8 (2), 9 (4), 10 (2), 11 (10), 12 (5), 13 (10),
14 (4), 15 (6), 16-17 (4), 18-23 (3), 24 (6), 25 (4), 26 (3), 27 (6), 28-30 (4)
KILLDEER: 11 (16), 12 (2)
BONAPARTE’S GULL: 11 (21), 12 (5)
FRANKLIN’S GULL: 11 (4)
RING-BILLED GULL: 3 (2), 11 (45+), 13 (2), 14 (10), 23 (64), 24 (3+)
HERRING GULL: 11 (1 im)
Gull sp.: 18 (1)
MOURNING DOVE: 1, 3, 8, 10-12, 14, 22
BARRED OWL: 17 (1)
BELTED KINGFISHER: 2-3 (1), 7 (1), 9 (1), 14 (1♂), 16 (1♀), 19 (1), 20 (1♀), 28 (1♀)
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER: 1-5, 9, 11-13, 17-20, 22-23, 28-30
DOWNY WOODPECKER: 2, 4-5, 7-8, 10-19, 22-30
HAIRY WOODPECKER: 3-5, 7, 13, 17
NORTHERN FLICKER (Yellow-shafted): 10 (1)
NORTHERN SHRIKE: 1-2 (1), 10 (1), 17-18 (1), 28 (1), 30 (1)
BLUE JAY: 1-5, 7-10, 12-13, 15-19, 22, 24-25, 27-30
AMERICAN CROW: 1-5, 7-18, 20-25, 27-30
BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE: 1-5, 7, 9-18, 20-30
WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH: 1-5, 7-11, 13-14, 16-18, 22, 24-25, 27, 29
BROWN CREEPER: 4 (1)
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET: 7 (1), 10 (1)
EASTERN BLUEBIRD: 4 (5)
AMERICAN ROBIN: 12 (1 BY), 17-18 (1)
EUROPEAN STARLING: 3, 10, 13, 16-17, 22, 24, 27-29
CEDAR WAXWING: 9 (2 BY)
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER (Myrtle): 8 (1)
AMERICAN TREE SPARROW: 1-5, 7-30
FOX SPARROW: 1-3 (1 BY), 9 (1 BY), 11 (1), 16 (1 BY), 20 (1)
SONG SPARROW: 1-4, 7-9, 15 (1), 21-22 (1)
SWAMP SPARROW: 1 (2), 3 (1), 4 (4), 5 (3), 7 (2), 10 (1), 21 (3), 24 (1), 29 (1)
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW: 4 (5), 10-12 (1 BY)
HARRIS’S SPARROW: 1 (10), 2 (5 + 1 BY), 4 (2 BY), 5 (1 BY), 9 (2), 10 (1 BY), 11 (1 BY + 3),
12 (5), 13-14 (1 BY), 23 (1), 24 (1 BY)
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW: 2 (4), 3 (3), 4 (2), 9 (2), 12 (1)
DARK-EYED JUNCO (Slate-colored): 1-5, 7-30
NORTHERN CARDINAL: 2-5, 8-10, 12-22, 24-30
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD: 1-2, 5 (1), 7 (12), 8, 18, 19-20 (1), 22 (1)
BREWER’S BLACKBIRD: 2 (8♂ + 1♀)
COMMON GRACKLE: 2, 7 (1), 29 (1)
BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD: 10 (1♂ BY)
HOUSE FINCH: 1-5, 7-20, 22-30
COMMON REDPOLL: 7 (~12), 9 (16), 18 (7), 19 (12), 24 (9+)
PINE SISKIN: 5 (1 BY), 7 (~20), 24 (2 BY)
AMERICAN GOLDFINCH: 2-5, 7, 9-13, 16-19, 21-25
HOUSE SPARROW: 1-5, 7-30
MAMMALIAN
AMERICAN MINK: 9 (1)
WHITE-TAILED DEER: 1 (1♀ w/1 yearling), 2 (1 FY, 1♂ w/spike antler), 5 (2♂ + 1♀ w/2 yearlings +
1), 7 (1♂ + 1♀ w/2 yearlings + 1), 8 (2♂ + 1), 9 (1♂ BY + 1♀ w/1 yearling FY),
10 (1 BY + 3♂), 11 (4), 13 (1), 14 (1♀ w/2 yearlings), 15 (6 + 1♂), 16 (1♂ + 2),
17 (3♂ + 1), 18 (1), 19 (1♂ + 6), 20 (2), 23 (2 BY), 24 (3), 26 (8), 29 (2♂ + 2)
FOX SQUIRREL: 3-4, 9-15, 17-18, 21-25, 27-30
MEADOW VOLE: 25 (1)
EASTERN COTTONTAIL: 1-2, 5, 7-12, 14-16, 18, 20, 22-23, 36-30
REPTILIAN
NORTHERN PAINTED TURTLE: 3 (5), 8 (1), 10 (2), 14-16 (1), 19-21 (1)
AMPHIBIAN
BULLFROG: 1, 3 (1), 10 (2), 20 (2)
LEPIDOPTERA
ORANGE SULPHURE: 3 (3), 10 (1), 18 (1)
WOOLLY BEAR (Isabella Tiger Moth): 8 (1), 14 (1)
Wolfgang Oesterreich
Ames
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