UNCOMMON WILDLIFE IN IOWA
Barn owls hunt southern Iowa grasslands and nest in old trees or barns. (Endangered species) Photos by Bruce Ehresman.
UNCOMMON WILDLIFE IN IOWA |
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Barn owls hunt southern Iowa grasslands and nest in old trees or barns. (Endangered species) Photos by Bruce Ehresman. |
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 The
blue-spotted salamander likes open, sandy woods and is known to inhabit only two sites in
east-central Iowa. (Endangered species) Photo by the Iowa Dept. |
 Bobcat sightings are increasing in southern and northeastern Iowa. Their habitat consists of brushy woods, bluffs, and field edges. (Endangered species) Photo by Ty Smedes. |
 Yellow-headed blackbirds nest over waters in the northern Iowa wetlands. Photo by Lowell Washburn. |
 Badgers were once a widespread species on Iowa's open prairie. Today they remain in fragments of limited habitat, digging distinctive oval holes in soft, loose earth materials. Photo by Lowell Washburn. |
 The rare piping plover thrived among once-numerous Missouri River sandbars. (Endangered species) Photo by Ty Smedes. |
 The western worm snake is a secretive creature of the prairie-woodland edge in southern Iowa. (Threatened species) Photo by Bruce Ehresman. |