page_title: List of birds of Iowa
section_title: Thrushes and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Iowa / Thrushes and allies
caption_attribution_description: English: Hermit Thrush public domain from USFWS
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: Turdidae
  The Thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World. They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium-sized insectivores or sometimes omnivores, often feeding on the ground. Many have attractive songs. Ten species have been recorded in Iowa.
  Eastern bluebird, Sialia sialis
  Mountain bluebird, Sialia currucoides (C)
  Townsend's solitaire, Myadestes townsendi
  Veery, Catharus fuscescens
  Gray-cheeked thrush, Catharus minimus
  Swainson's thrush, Catharus ustulatus
  Hermit thrush, Catharus guttatus
  Wood thrush, Hylocichla mustelina
  American robin, Turdus migratorius
  Varied thrush, Ixoreus naevius
caption: Hermit thrush
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