Colaptes auratus auratus, C. A. LUTEUS, C. a. COLLARIS (cANESCENS) Status: “yellow-shafted flicker”: Common regular spring and fall migrant east and central, uncommon west. Common regular breeder east and central, rare west (Pine Ridge, North and South Platte river valleys), rare casual elsewhere in Panhandle. Fairly common regular winter visitor east and central, uncommon west. […]
WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE
COntopus sordidulus veliei Status: Increasing. Common regular spring and fall migrant west, locally uncommon west central, rare casual elsewhere. Common regular breeder west, locally rare west central. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6396, 24 May 1900 Monroe Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), two north of Mexico: saturatus from southeast Alaska to western […]
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
Contopus cooperi cooperi Status: Uncommon regular spring and fall migrant east, west, and Platte River Valley, rare elsewhere in central. Documentation: UNSM 6401, 14 Jun 1901 Warbonnet Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: AOU (1998) noted that this species was previously placed in the monotypic genus Nuttallornis, as N. borealis. Nuttallornis is now merged with Contopus, where […]
PEREGRINE FALCON
Falco peregrinus anatum, F. p. tundrius Status: Uncommon regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Locally uncommon regular resident east, extirpated west. Rare summer visitor away from Omaha and Lincoln metros. Rare casual winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimens: UNSM ZM7696 (anatum) 14 May 1915 Garden Co; UNSM ZM7695 (tundrius) 5 May 1935 near Stapleton, Logan Co. […]
AMERICAN THREE-TOED WOODPECKER
Picoides dorsalis dorsalis Status: Rare casual summer visitor west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6345, 16 Jun 1916 Scotts Bluff Co (Swenk 1918). Taxonomy: Nearctic Picoides dorsalis American Three-toed Woodpecker is split from the Palearctic species P. tridactylus Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker based on genetic and vocal differences (Banks et al 2003). Three subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025): fasciatus […]
RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER
Melanerpes carolinus Status: Common regular resident east and south, uncommon north, rare west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6285, 9 Apr 1903 Roca, Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Resident: Red-bellied Woodpecker has spread gradually westward during the 20th century, but remains by far most numerous in eastern Nebraska, where BBS data indicate 95% […]