Where to see a Hooded Merganser in Iowa
The Hooded Merganser is regularly recorded in the counties of 72 Iowa state parks (eBird historical checklists). The strongest bets:
- Gull Point State Park
- Orleans State Park
- Mini-Wakan State Park
- Pikes Point State Park
- Elinor Bedell State Park
- Trapper's Bay State Park
- Pillsbury Point State Park
- Templar State Recreation Area
- Silver Lake Fen State Preserve
- Emerson Bay State Recreation Area
- Marble Beach State Recreation Area
- Trappers Bay State Park Picnic Shelter
- Freda Haffner Kettlehole State Preserve
- Doolittle Prairie State Preserve
- Stephens State Forest - Woodburn Unit
- Big Creek State Park
- Okamanpeedam State Park
- Walnut Woods State Park
- Margo Frankel Woods State Park
- Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve
- Maquoketa Caves State Park
- Bellevue State Park
- Lake Macbride State Park
- Old State Quarry State Preserve
- Williams Prairie State Preserve
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