Coturnicops noveboracensis noveboracensis Status: Rare casual spring and fall migrant central and east, accidental west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12604, 8 May 1909 South Bend, Cass Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized, noveboracensis of North America, and goldmani of central Mexico (AviList 2025); goldmani may be extinct (Leston and Bookhout 2020). Nebraska birds are noveboracensis. Spring: […]
EARED GREBE
Podiceps nigricollis californicus Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant central and west, fairly common east. Common regular breeder north and west, rare southeast. Rare casual summer visitor south and east. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6006, 25 Sep 1927 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Three subspecies are recognized: californicus in North and Central America, gurneyi in Africa, and […]
[CHUKAR]
Alectoris chukar Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: There are 14 subspecies in the native Eurasian range (AviList 2025). AviList (2025) calls this species Chukar Partridge. Releases into the US included subspecies koroviakovi and chukar (Christensen 2020). Releases in recent years for dog training purposes are of unknown, likely mixed, provenance. Comments: Several attempts were made […]
[COMMON QUAIL]
Coturnix coturnix Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Five subspecies are currently recognized in its native Eurasian and African range (AviList 2025). Common Quail is considered monophyletic since the split of Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica (McGowan et al 2023). Comments: The only information regarding this species (rather than Japanese Quail) in Nebraska is of the release […]
GREATER SAGE-GROUSE
Centrocercus urophasianus Status: Extirpated. Documentation: Specimens: pair, SUI 16130 and 16131, 27 Dec 1894, “Nebraska”. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). AviList (2025) calls this species simply “Sage Grouse”. Records: Current understanding of the pre-settlement range, including Nebraska, and current range, which does not include Nebraska, is mapped in Schroeder et al (2004). These […]
[CALIFORNIA QUAIL]
Callipepla californica Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized in its native western US and northwestern Mexico range (AviList 2025). It is not known which subspecies was/were released in Nebraska. Comments: The only release of these birds was of about 70 in Butler, Madison, Knox, and Douglas Cos in 1939; a covey was […]