Inside
The 24 birds on its checklist
- American Goldfinch State bird
- American Crow
- American Robin
- Barn Swallow
- Blue Jay
- Brown Thrasher
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Chipping Sparrow
- Common Grackle
- Common Yellowthroat
- Dickcissel
- Eastern Kingbird
- European Starling
- Gray Catbird
- House Sparrow
- Indigo Bunting
- Killdeer
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern House Wren
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Ring-necked Pheasant
- Song Sparrow
Inside is a checklist of the 24 birds most often recorded in Iowa on the USGS Breeding Bird Survey, the Red-headed Woodpecker, the Ring-necked Pheasant and the Dickcissel among them, with a line for the date each is first seen. After it come 90 lines for birds added later, a numbered life list of 200, a page for each of the 12 months with one of the state's birds drawn on it and a week-by-week tally, and 84 pages of daily entries, 168 in all, each with the hours watched, the weather and a count of every bird. A page to map the yard, 24 sketch frames and 3 pages for notes finish the book. It is a full-color paperback, 8.5 by 11 inches, printed to order. The illustrations were made with AI tools, and each one was checked against its species' field marks before printing.
The particulars
Sizes, finishes and shipping
| Paperback | 8.5 × 11 in, 120 pages, $25 |
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| Made | Printed and bound to order by a book printer after you order it |
| Shipping | Free shipping on orders of $50 and up, $4.95 below that, to the 50 states and D.C. |
Illustrated print
Birds of Iowa Illustrated Print
16 watercolor-style birds, state bird first, as a poster, framed or on canvas.
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Illustrated print
Birds of Iowa Illustrated Print
16 watercolor-style birds, state bird first, as a poster, framed or on canvas.
From $29