Anas cRECCA CAROLINENSIS Status: Common, locally abundant, regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Rare regular breeder northcentral, rare casual elsewhere. Uncommon summer visitor Rainwater Basin; rare casual elsewhere. Uncommon regular winter visitor west, south, east, rare north. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12432, 14 Apr 1909 Cass Co. Taxonomy: This subspecies and Eurasian A. c. crecca are […]
NORTHERN PINTAIL
Anas acuta Status: Common, locally abundant, regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Uncommon, locally common, regular breeder statewide. Locally uncommon regular winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12426, 4 Apr 1909, Grafton, Fillmore Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). Northern Pintail hybridizes with Mallard; for Nebraska records see Mallard x Northern […]
[MEXICAN DUCK]
Anas diazi Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). See related taxonomic discussions under Mallard and Mottled Duck. Whether Mexican Duck is a valid species has been a matter of debate, although it was recently elevated to species status by AOS (Chesser et al 2020) based primarily on genomic studies […]
MOTTLED DUCK
Anas fulvigula maculosa Status: Rare casual summer visitor. Documentation: Photograph: 5 Oct 1958 Loup River, Howard Co (Lemburg 1980, Bray et al 1986). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022); fulvigula of Florida and maculosa of the Gulf Coast from Alabama to northeastern Mexico. See discussion under Mallard (Taxonomy) for relationships between members […]
AMERICAN BLACK DUCK
Anas rubripes Status: Rare casual fall and spring migrant and winter visitor east. Rare casual summer visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNK un-numbered, 20 Oct 1912 Kearney, Buffalo Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). As discussed under Mallard (https://birds.outdoornebraska.gov/mallard), hybridization of American Black Duck with Mallard was limited if not non-existent prior […]
MALLARD
Anas platyrhynchos PLATYRHYNCHOS Status: Abundant regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Common regular breeder statewide. Common, locally abundant, regular winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM7674, 11 Apr 1916 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are currently recognized, worldwide nominate platyrhynchos, and conboschas, confined to Greenland (Gill et al 2022). Nebraska birds are presumed platyrhynchos. The […]