Setophaga occidentalis Status: Rare casual spring migrant. Documentation: Photo: 15 May 2002 male 5.5 miles north of Creighton, Knox Co (Brogie 2002, 2003). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). This species and Townsend’s Warbler hybridize commonly in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon (Morrison and Hardy 1983). Although not reported for Nebraska, there […]
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER
Setophaga nigrescens halseii Status: Rare casual spring migrant west, accidental east. Rare casual fall migrant west and central. Documentation: Photograph: 16 May 2008 Crescent Lake NWR, Garden Co (Brogie 2009). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), nigrescens, breeding from coastal southwest British Columbia to west-central California, and halseii, breeding from interior southern British Columbia […]
GRACE’S WARBLER
Setophaga graciae graciae Status: Rare casual spring and fall visitor. Documentation: Photograph: 4 May 2008 Crescent Lake NWR, Garden Co (Brogie 2009). Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized, three of which occur from Mexico south to Nicaragua, and one in the US: graciae, breeding from southwestern US and northwest Mexico south to northern Sinaloa (AviList 2025). […]
[RED-CRESTED CARDINAL]
Paroaria coronata Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: One reported at a feeder in Lincoln, Lancaster Co Sep 1972 through 30 Apr 1973 was determined to be an escapee from the Lincoln Zoo (Bennett 1973). This South American species is established in Hawaii (AOU 1983); its native range is […]
PAINTED BUNTING
Passerina ciris Status: Rare casual statewide spring visitor. Accidental in fall. Documentation: Specimen: UNK, 26 Apr 1960 Kearney, Buffalo Co (Brown 1960, Wetmore 1961). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), ciris, breeding in the southeastern USA, wintering in the West Indies, and pallidior, breeding in the south-central USA to Mexico, wintering south to Panama. […]
[BLUE BUNTING]
Cyanocompsa parellina Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized, none of regular occurrence north of Mexico (AviList 2025). Comments: The single report, of one in Otoe Co 22 Jan 2015 was not accepted by NOURC as “lacking substantive evidence for a first state record” (Brogie 2016). Almost all records of this species are […]