Accipiter cooperii Status: Fairly common, locally common, regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Fairly common regular breeder and winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12499, 17 May 1909 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2023). It has been conventional wisdom (for example Rosenfield et al 2020) that eye color darkened in Cooper’s […]
BROAD-WINGED HAWK
Buteo platypterus PLATYPTERUS Status: Uncommon regular spring migrant east and central, rare west. Rare regular breeder southeast, rare casual central. Fairly common regular fall migrant east and central, rare west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM7669, 29 Apr 1917 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Six subspecies are recognized, five in the Caribbean and one, platypterus, in North and South […]
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK
Buteo lineatus lineatus Status: Rare regular resident southeast, rare casual elsewhere. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12519, 15 Jan 1941 Fontenelle Forest, Sarpy Co. Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022): alleni of south-central Texas to North Carolina and northern Florida, extimus of south Florida and the Florida Keys, texanus from south Texas to southeast […]
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
Accipiter striatus velox Status: Uncommon, locally common, regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Rare casual breeder north. Uncommon regular winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12494, 23 Aug 1908 Monroe Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: There are seven subspecies currently recognized throughout the Americas, two of these in North America, perobscurus of Queen Charlotte Is, British […]
BLACK VULTURE
Coragyps atratus atratus Status: Rare casual summer visitor. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 2649, 14 Jul 1916 Hildreth, Franklin Co. Taxonomy: Gill et al (2022) consider the species monotypic; three subspecies have previously been recognized, including atratus of southern North America (Clements et al 2016). Nebraska records are presumed atratus if subspecies are recognized. Summer: There are […]
SWAINSON’S HAWK
Buteo swainsoni Status: Common regular spring migrant statewide, except uncommon southeast. Fairly common regular breeder west and central, rare casual northeast. Rare regular summer visitor northeast, rare casual southeast. Common, locally abundant, fall migrant statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12521, 17 Jun 1901 Monroe Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). […]