page_title: List of birds of Iowa
section_title: Tits, chickadees, and titmice
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Iowa / Tits, chickadees, and titmice
caption_attribution_description: Black-capped Chickadee -- Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada -- 2005 December
context_page_description: This list of birds of Iowa includes species documented in the U.S. state of Iowa and accepted by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. As of July 2020, there are 430 species included in the official list. Of them, 92 are classed as accidental, 25 are classed as casual, eight have been introduced to North America, three are extinct, and one has been extirpated.
  Only birds that are considered to have established, self-sustaining, wild populations in Iowa are included on this list. This means that birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Iowa, are not included.
  This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds, 7th edition through the 61st Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society. Common and scientific names are also those of the Check-list, except that the common names of families are from the Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them.
  The following codes are used to designate some species:
  Accidental - "seen once to several times, but less than 4 of last 10 years" per the IOU
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Paridae
  The Paridae are mainly small stocky woodland species with short stout bills. Some have crests. They are adaptable birds, with a mixed diet including seeds and insects. Three species have been recorded in Iowa.
  Black-capped chickadee, Poecile atricapilla
  Boreal chickadee, Poecile hudsonica (A)
  Tufted titmouse, Baeolophus bicolor
caption: Black-capped chickadee
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