Sialia currucoides Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant west and west-central, rare east-central, rare casual east. Fairly common regular breeder west. Uncommon regular winter visitor west and central, rare casual east. Documentation: UNSM ZM6695, 24 May 1900 Monroe Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). See The Eastern x […]
HERMIT THRUSH
Catharus guttatus faxoni, C. g. auduboni, C. g. guttatus, C. g. faxoni/euborius/munroi, C. g. oromelus/guttatus Status: Uncommon regular spring migrant east and south, rare west, rare casual north. Uncommon regular fall migrant east and west, rare central. Rare winter visitor southeast and Platte River Valley, rare casual elsewhere. Documentation: Specimen: faxoni: UNSM ZM6670, 9 Apr […]
WINTER WREN
Troglodytes hiemalis hiemalis Status: Uncommon regular spring and fall migrant east, rare central, rare casual west. Rare regular winter visitor east and south, rare casual elsewhere. Accidental in summer. Documentation: UNSM ZM6573, 2 Dec 1901 Dunbar, Otoe Co. Taxonomy: Recent genetic studies (Drovetski et al 2004, Toews and Irwin 2008) have resulted in splitting of […]
CEDAR WAXWING
Bombycilla cedrorum Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Fairly common regular breeder east and central, uncommon west. Common regular winter visitor statewide. Documentation: UNSM ZM12051, 8 Mar 1890 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies were recognized by Phillips (1986), eastern cedrorum, breeding west to Missouri, and western larifuga, breeding east to Kansas. However current […]
AMERICAN PIPIT
Anthus rubescens Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6724, 19 Oct 1899 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Some recent international naming authorities (Gill et al 2022) use the name Buff-bellied Pipit for this species, which occurs in Siberia as well as North America. There are four subspecies generally recognized (Hendricks and Verbeek […]
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
Bombycilla garrulus pallidiceps Status: Rare casual winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12046, 7 Dec 1889 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: There are three subspecies recognized, garrulus of Eurasia, centralasiae of central and eastern Siberia, and pallidiceps of western Canada and northern and western USA (Witmer 2020; Pyle 1997). Nebraska birds are pallidiceps. Changes Since 2000: The […]