Projects Funded by the IOU

for education and conservation

Funding for natural history projects, be it research, habitat restoration, or land acquisition, is not always easy. Although we are not a wealthy organization and money available each year is dependent on the number of IOU members, we are proud of some of our recent accomplishments of partnering with other funders to make a difference for Iowa's birds. The table below shows the projects funded. If you would like to help fund some of these interesting projects, please 1) make sure you have joined the IOU or renewed your membership and 2) donate additional money to the Projects Fund.

Year

FundingYear

recID

Year

Recipient

Amount

Description

Report


Year: 2019 Total Awards: $4999
101	2019	Benton County Conservation	$1,000 1000	Fen acquisition
99	2019	The Community Academy	$535 534.75	Summer Experience 2019 - Brookside Park Trail Restoration
103	2019	Melody Campbell, Iowa State University	$528 528	The Effects of Anthropogenic Noise on Stress in Urban Birds and their Nestlings
105	2019	Joe Frieden, Upper Iowa University	$500 500	Song Variation of Territorial Male Bobolinks in Intentionally-Grazed Pastures
98	2019	Sac County Conservation Board	$500 500	Knee High Naturalist: All About Birds program
107	2019	Paul Skrade, Upper Iowa University & Winneshiek County Conservation	$500 500	American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) Nest Box Placement & Monitoring Along Winneshiek County Secondary Roads
102	2019	Louisa County Conservation	$450 450	Owl Nesting Boxes & Owl Education
100	2019	Kyla Yuza-Pate, Iowa State University	$400 400	Iowa State University Bird-Window Collision Carcass Survey
104	2019	Patrick Page, Nicholas Vozza, and Brian D. Peer, Western Illinois University	$336 336	Why me? Assessing Factors that Determine Cowbird Parasitism of Prothonotary Warblers
106	2019	Sioux County Conservation Foundation (SCCF)	$250 250	Sioux County Nature Center: Bird Watching Station
		Total (10 items):	$4999
Year: 2018 Total Awards: $5000
90	2018	Jones County Conservation Board	$900 900	Purple Martin Complex Gourd & Interpretive Signage Addition
89	2018	Bird Friendly Iowa (BFI)	$700 700	Establishing Bird Friendly Iowa Communities	Report
92	2018	Monroe County Conservation Board	$514 514	Bird's Eye View Feeding and Viewing Station	Report
94	2018	Ringgold County Conservation Board	$500 500	Dragoon Trace Nature Center – Outdoor Learning Environment	Report
96	2018	EmiLee Novak, Upper Iowa University	$500 500	Research - Song Variation of Cerulean Warblers in Northeast Iowa
97	2018	Brian D. Peer, Western Illinois University	$500 500	Decline of the Prothonotary Warbler: Are Front-line Defenses Effective in Reducing Cowbird Parasitism?
95	2018	Elliot Stalter - University of Iowa	$393 393	Research, A Window of Opportunity: Measurement and Prevention of Migratory Bird- Window Collisions in Iowa City
93	2018	Palo Alto County Conservation Foundation Board	$345 344.95	NatureWatch Bird Egg display	Report
88	2018	BioEco Research and Monitoring Center, Clinton County Conservation Board	$340 340	Building Even Better Birders Field Classes
91	2018	Louisa County Conservation	$308 308	Langwood Education Center Bird Blind Feeders	Report
		Total (10 items):	$5000
Year: 2017 Total Awards: $9072
86	2017	Des Moines CCB	$1,600 1600	Research - The Purchase of a SM3BAT Song Meter to Survey Species Diversity at Big Hollow Recreation Area	Report
87	2017	Jackson CCB	$1,500 1500	Prairie Creek Recreation Area – Wetland Development: For creating 35 acres of new wetland and pollinator prairie habitat.	Report
83	2017	Jaime Coon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	$1,014 1014	Research - Grassland birds, an invasive grass, and arthropods: exploring food web relationships using a long term avian dataset.
75	2017	Buena Vista CCB	$900 900	Bird viewing station in Buena Vista County Park	Report
84	2017	Brian Peer, Western Illinois University	$800 800	Research - The Prothonotary Project: Field equipment and supplies for conducting research and creating nest boxes for Prothonotary Warblers on the Mississippi River near the Quad Cities.	Report
81	2017	Clinton CCB	$750 750	Building better birders field classes: Salary, mileage, and marketing classes to provide bird ID and survey courses for new birders/surveyors in Clinton County.	Report
79	2017	Allamakee CCB	$500 500	Permanently mounted viewing scopes for the Driftless Area Education and Visitors Center (near Lansing, IA)	Report
80	2017	Sac CCB	$400 400	Junior Naturalist Bird Day Camp 2017: Scope and tripod for use through the year, and owl pellets and classroom guides for Summer Day camps	Report
85	2017	Jesse Ellis and Garret Forgey, Coe College	$400 400	Research - Eurasian Tree Sparrow Dispersion in the Cedar River Valley, Mileage for volunteers conducting Eurasian Tree Sparrow and House Sparrow surveys.
82	2017	Friends of Jones County Conservation and Nature Center	$350 350	Birding Explorer Pack: Explorer backpacks with binoculars, field guides, children’s books, sketchpads, and colored pencils included. To be checked out by family campers, families, youth groups, and school classrooms who visit the Fox Den Nature Center.	Report
78	2017	Mitchell County Environmental Education Foundation	$339 338.93	Nesting camera and bird photo booth at the Milton R. Owen Nature Center to provide visitors with video of resident nesting and feeding birds	Report
76	2017	Cerro Gordo CCB	$289 288.99	Nature’s Window: Bringing the Outdoors In. Microphone system to record and broadcast audio from the wildlife and waterscape just outside the visitors center.	Report
77	2017	Mills County CCB	$230 230	Bird feeders for Pony Creek Nature Center	Report
		Total (13 items):	$9072
Year: 2016 Total Awards: $9273
71	2016	Dallas County Conservation Board	$2,440 2440	Purple Martin Houses for Four Different Locations in Dallas County (Special Memorial Funds in honor of Tom Lawson)	Report
62	2016	Grace Vaziri, Iowa State University	$990 990	Research Project: Gut Parasites of Iowa Song Sparrows
70	2016	Western Illinois University-Nahant Marsh	$984 984	Habitat Restoration for Prothonotary Warblers at Nahant Marsh
69	2016	Hawkeye Area Council-Boy Scouts of America	$800 800	Bird study @ Scout Camp-Education Materials, Supplies for Building Feeders, etc.	Report
68	2016	Cherokee Conservation Board	$731 731	Outdoor Classroom-Bird Blind
67	2016	Hardin County Conservation Board	$500 500	Elevated Observation Tower @ Pintail Wetlands
63	2016	Jones County Conservation Board	$500 500	Binoculars and Field Guides for Birders
64	2016	Stephanie Allers, Western Illinois University	$485 485	Research Project: Brown-headed Cowbird Affects on Host Species	Report
74	2016	Orange Elementary School	$440 440	2nd Chimney Swift Tower for Orange Elementary School - Additional Habitat for Existing Flock of 200 Swifts
73	2016	North Cedar Neighborhood Association, Cedar Falls	$408 408	Chimney Swift Tower for Habitat Maintained by Neighborhood Association and North Cedar Elementary School
65	2016	Mills County Conservation Board	$400 400	Spotting Scope	Report
72	2016	Johnson County Conservation Board	$355 355	Binoculars for Bird Programming	Report
66	2016	Dallas County Conservation Board	$240 240	Field Guides for Owl Education Program	Report
		Total (13 items):	$9273
Year: 2015 Total Awards: $5187
54	2015	O’Brien, Clay, Emmet, Palo Alto, Dickinson CCBs & Union Slough	$1,000 1000	Publication of a revised map and guide to "Birding: The Iowa Prairie Lakes Region"	Report
61	2015	Dr. Paul Skrade	$750 750	Cerulean Warbler Occupancy Study	Report
59	2015	Hardin County Conservation Board	$500 500	Observation Platform at Pintail Wetlands	Report
50	2015	Orange Elementary School, Waterloo, IA	$500 500	Chimney Swift towers for an existing swift colony	Report
55	2015	Henry County Conservation Board	$440 440	Improvements to facilities for education raptors @ Oakland Mills.	Report
49	2015	Johnson County Conservation Board	$350 350	Field Guides for Programming	Report
60	2015	Mitchell County Conservation Board	$331 330.95	Avian audio experience	Report
58	2015	Ewalu Camp & Retreat Center	$250 250	Birds & birding environmental education class	Report
53	2015	Hitchcock Nature Center	$250 250	Northern Saw-whet Owl Migration Monitoring	Report
51	2015	Iowa Young Birders	$250 250	Field Guides for Iowa Young Birder Participants	Report
57	2015	Jackson County Conservation Board	$216 215.75	BioBlitz & breeding bird survey at Prairie Creek Recreation Area	Report
52	2015	Woodbury County Conservation Board	$200 200	Equipment for raptor education at the Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center	Report
56	2015	MacBride Raptor Project	$150 150	Improvements to bird blind feeding station	Report
		Total (13 items):	$5187
Year: 2014 Total Awards: $4420
37	2014	Jon Stravers - Driftless Area Bird Conservation	$700 700	Cerulean Warbler documentation in Effigy Mounds/Yellow River Forest BCA	Report
47	2014	Jackson County Conservation Board	$600 600	Breeding bird survey of newly acquired land prior to habitat restoration	Report
40	2014	Pottawattamie County Conservation Board	$500 500	Hitchcock Hawk Watch and Raptor Banding	Report
43	2014	Pat Schlarbaum - Iowa DNR	$500 500	Falcon River Trip
46	2014	Mahaska County Conservation Board	$400 400	Binoculars for beginning birders	Report
45	2014	Nahant Marsh Education Center	$350 350	Migratory bird obstacle course and education
44	2014	Allamakee County Conservation Board	$250 250	Optics for Conservation Environmental Education Program	Report
41	2014	Mitchell County Conservation Board	$250 250	Education supplies for beginning birders	Report
39	2014	Iowa Young Birders	$250 250	Iowa and Illinois Young Birder Day on the Mississippi River
48	2014	Mines of Spain - Iowa DNR	$220 220	E.B. Lyons Center addition and development	Report
42	2014	Polk County Conservation Board	$200 200	Barn Owl nest boxes at Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt	Report
38	2014	North Cedar Neighborhood Association	$200 200	Bird and wildlife sanctuary in Cedar Falls	Report
		Total (12 items):	$4420
Year: 2013 Total Awards: $5000
28	2013	Tyler Harms	$1,000 1000	Grassland Bird Nesting study in Polk Co.	Report
29	2013	Jon Stravers	$750 750	NE IA Cerulean Warbler Monitoring	Report
30	2013	Pottawattamie County Cons. Bd.	$750 750	Hitchcock NC Raptor Banding Projects	Report
31	2013	Madison County Cons. BD.	$600 600	Pammel Park Bird Blind	Report
32	2013	Ringgold County Cons. Bd.	$500 500	Avian Education/Nature Center	Report
33	2013	Mitchell County Cons. BD.	$500 500	Binoculars for Beginning Birders	Report
34	2013	Allamakee CCB	$400 400	Peregrine Falcon Education	Report
35	2013	Mills County Cons. Bd.	$350 350	Pony Creek Park Bird Blind	Report
36	2013	Springbrook Conservation Ed. Ctr.	$150 150	Field Guide Purchases	Report
		Total (9 items):	$5000
Year: 2012 Total Awards: $8000
26	2012	Jon Stravers	$2,000 2000	Cerulean Warbler monitoring project in NE Iowa.	Report
19	2012	Iowa Young Birders	$1,500 1500	A new non-profit organization encouraging younger Iowans to consider birding and to enhance their appreciation of the outdoors.	Report
20	2012	Woodbury CCB	$1,000 1000	Raptor enclosure at Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center.	Report
27	2012	Chad Graeve	$1,000 1000	Hitchcock Hawkwatch raptor banding projects.	Report
21	2012	Hurstville Interp. Center	$500 500	Construction of a Chimney Swift tower.	Report
22	2012	Iowa Wildlife Center	$500 500	High Trestle Raptor Project	Report
23	2012	Iowa County Cons. Board	$500 500	Bird I.D. Teacher Pack at Lake Iowa Park.	Report
24	2012	Lee County Cons. Board	$500 500	Keokuk Bald Eagle Days celebration.	Report
25	2012	Courtney Duchardt	$500 500	Study of grassland bird nest site selection in Ringgold County.	Report
		Total (9 items):	$8000
Year: 2011 Total Awards: $5000
9	2011	Chad Graeve	$1,540 1540	Hitchcock Hawkwatch raptor banding projects
7	2011	Ron Huelse	$1,500 1500	Gladys Black eagle nest cam project	Report
6	2011	Timothy Lyons	$1,360 1360	Study effects of a fire-grazing interaction on the nesting ecology of a grassland songbird	Report
8	2011	Jonathan Meerbeek	$600 600	Monitor and evaluate the ecological conditions of Iowa’s shallow lakes, pre- and post-renovation
		Total (4 items):	$5000
Year: 2010 Total Awards: $3000
10	2010	Quad City Audubon Society	$1,000 1000	Winter 2010-11 Milan Bottoms Bald Eagle Night Roost Monitoring
13	2010	Hitchcock Nature Center	$900 900	Hitchcock Hawkwatch Raptor Banding	Report
11	2010	Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation	$600 600	Story County Habitat Protection and Restoration
12	2010	Iowa DNR	$400 400	Monitoring and Evaluating the Ecological Condition of Iowa’s Shallow Lakes	Report
14	2010	Anna MacDonald	$100 100	Avian community composition and habitat use within watersheds of contrasting annual-perennial vegetation configurations
		Total (5 items):	$3000
Year: 2009 Total Awards: $3000
3	2009	Mitchell County Conservation Board	$1,250 1250	Farm-land purchase
4	2009	Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation	$1,000 1000	Purchase of a 168-acre parcel in Story County composed of remnant prairie and adjacent to other protected property
5	2009	Pottawattamie County Conservation	$750 750	Hitchcock Hawk Watch	Report
		Total (3 items):	$3000
Year: 2008 Total Awards: $2000
1	2008	Friends of the Sherman Swift Tower	$1,000 1000	Re-creation of the Sherman Swift Tower in Clayton County
2	2008	Larry Stone & Jon Stravers	$1,000 1000	Gladys Black book
		Total (2 items):	$2000
Year: 2007 Total Awards: $6000
15	2007	Winnebago County Conservation Board	$2,000 2000	Purchase of 105 acres of critical habitat along the Winnebago River Greenbelt
17	2007	The Nature Conservancy of Iowa	$1,750 1750	Habitat improvement and evaluation at the Broken Kettle Grasslands in Plymouth Co.
16	2007	Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation	$1,500 1500	Purchase of 93 acres of critical habitat on the east side of Big Spirit Lake in Dickinson Co.
18	2007	Pottawattamie Co. Conservation Board	$750 750	Raptor banding research at the Hitchcock Hawk Watch	Report
		Total (4 items):	$6000

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