New Iowa Bird Life available

[Neil Bernstein]

The first issue of Iowa Bird Life of 2026 is now available for download on the IOU website for members. Printed copies will be arriving in the next few weeks. Wendy VanDeWalle has enhanced the Summer 2025 field reports again with tri-colored maps comparing species' distributions between 2024 and 2025, and Steve Dinsmore reports on the second record of a Royal Tern in Iowa. Along with many spectacular photos, there is poetry, a story about a rescued nestling Great Horned Owl, documentation of several years of nesting for Red-breasted Nuthatches, an update on birding at a park in Linn County, a reflection on an early study of Field Sparrows near Ames, and a University of Iowa graduate outlines his growth to his present status as a PhD candidate in avian evolutionary biology. Also, there are IOU announcements and business including a reminder that the spring meeting will be 24-26 April in Fayette.