Acanthis hornemanni Status: Rare casual winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Photograph: 5 Feb 1982 Ames, Dodge Co (Bray et al 1986). Taxonomy: Gill et al (2022) refer to this species as Arctic Redpoll. A recent proposal to AOU to lump the redpolls, including Common and Hoary Redpolls has not yet been voted upon (AOU 2016), but […]
[ATLANTIC CANARY]
Serinus canaria Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Clement (2020) refers to this species as Island Canary. No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). Comments: Cage birds are derived from birds native to the Canary Islands, Azores, and Madeira and usually lack back streaking due to selection by aficionados. A population is established in Hawaii […]
TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE
Myadestes townsendi townsendi Status: Rare casual breeder northwest. Common regular winter resident and spring and fall migrant west, uncommon central, rare east. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6699, 19 Feb 1896 Harrison, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022), one in Mexico; the other, townsendi, breeds and winters throughout the North America range. […]
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET
Corthylio calendula calendula Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant east and central, uncommon west. Rare regular winter visitor south and southeast, rare casual elsewhere. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6713, 13 Apr 1901 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: New World Ruby-crowned Kinglet as genus Corthylio was split from unchanged Old World genus Regulus, which retains Golden-crowned Kinglet, based […]
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH
Catharus minimus aliciae Status: Uncommon regular spring migrant east, rare east-central, rare casual west-central and west. Rare casual fall migrant statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM11018, 11 May 1910 South Bend, Cass Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022): aliciae, breeding from Alaska to northern Alberta and Labrador, and minimus, breeding in Newfoundland […]
VEERY
Catharus fuscescens fuscescens, C. f. levyi, C. f. salicicolus Status: Uncommon regular spring migrant east and west, rare casual central. Rare fall migrant east and west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM11022 (fuscescens? levyi?), 25 May 1909 Lincoln, Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Six subspecies have been recognized (Pyle 1997) based on a revision by Phillips (1991); more recently […]