Laterallus jamaicensis JAMAICENSIS Status: Rare casual spring and summer visitor statewide. Federally listed as Threatened. Documentation: Recording: 25 May 1986 Knox Co (Brogie and Brogie 1987, Brogie 1999). Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized, three in South America, and two in North America: coterniculus of California and Baja, Mexico, and jamaicensis of the eastern United States […]
[GREATER ROADRUNNER]
Geococcyx californianus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: There are five reports without adequate documentation. A single bird identified as this species ran across the road in front of a car driven by observers familiar with the species one mile northwest of Funk, Phelps Co 29 Mar 2004. The report […]
GROOVE-BILLED ANI
Crotophaga sulcirostris Status: Rare casual fall visitor central and east. Documentation: Photograph: 15 Oct-1 Nov 1975 Hall Co (Stoppkotte 1975). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Former weakly-differentiated subspecies sulcirostris, which is resident in south Texas, has a history of northward vagrancy (Pyle 1997). It is listed as occurring in Kansas (Johnston 1965) and […]
RED-NECKED GREBE
Podiceps grisegena holbollii Status: Rare casual spring migrant and summer visitor statewide. Rare regular fall migrant statewide. Accidental in winter. Documentation: Photograph: 24 Nov 1995 Lewis and Clark Lake, Knox Co (Brogie 1996). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized, grisegena in Eurasia and holbollii in North America (AviList 2025). Nebraska birds are holbollii. Spring: The number […]
NORTHERN BOBWHITE
Colinus virginianus taylori Status: Fairly common regular resident east and most of central; rare elsewhere. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6093, 19 Jun 1902 Keya Paha Co. Taxonomy: AviList (2025) recognized 20 subspecies; subspecies mexicanus and marilandicus recognized by Brennan et al (2020) were included within virginianus by AviList (2025). The range of mexicanus (=virginianus) was described […]
EASTERN WHIP-POOR-WILL
Antrostomus vociferus Status: Common regular breeder and spring and fall migrant east and Niobrara River Valley to Cherry Co, rare elsewhere central. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 2733, 2 May 1896 Giltner, Hamilton Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). This species and 10 others previously in Caprimulgus were moved to Antrostomus (AviList 2025) based on […]