Podilymbus podiceps podiceps Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Common regular breeder Sandhills, fairly common elsewhere. Rare casual winter visitor North Platte and Platte River valleys southward. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6004, 20 Apr 1890 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Three subspecies are recognized, podiceps in continental North America, antillarum in the Greater and Lesser Antilles, […]
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Anser albifrons GAMBELLI Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12412, 1937 or 1938 Lancaster Co. Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant central, fairly common east, uncommon west. Rare regular summer visitor south and east, rare casual north and west. Rare regular winter visitor central and east, rare casual west. Status trends: As late as the 1980s, as […]
ROSS’S GOOSE
Anser rossii Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM11255, 6 Nov 1922 Hooper, Dodge Co (Tate 1966). Status: Abundant regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Rare regular summer visitor central and east. Uncommon regular winter visitor west, south, and east. Status trends: Huntley (1971) and Tate (1966) published information on a mounted specimen (cited above) taken by a hunter […]
SNOW GOOSE
Anser caerulescens caerulescens, A. c. atlanticus Documentation: caerulescens: specimen UNSM ZM10619, 28 Mar 1917 Lancaster Co; atlanticus: photograph by William Lemburg of a specimen provided by Randy Buettner in spring, circa 2000 (Silcock 2004). Status: Abundant regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Uncommon regular summer visitor statewide. Uncommon regular winter visitor east, south and west, rare […]
MOURNING DOVE
Zenaida macroura marginella Status: Abundant regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Common regular breeder statewide. Uncommon regular winter visitor south and east, rare north and North Platte River Valley southward, rare casual northern Panhandle. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM 6232, 30 May 1914 Haigler, Dundy Co. Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), two occupying North America […]
WHITE-WINGED DOVE
Zenaida asiatica Status: Increasing. Uncommon resident, more numerous in summer than winter, especially south of dashed line on map. Rare casual breeder statewide. Documentation: Photograph: 11-16 May 1994 Lincoln, Lancaster Co (Gubanyi 1996a). Taxonomy: Three subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025): mearnsi of the southwest US and western Mexico, asiatica of the southern US to Nicaragua […]