Anas diazi Status: Accidental in fall. Documentation: Photograph: 30 October 2024 Scottsbluff WTP, Scotts Bluff Co (Mlodinow, eBird Checklist – 30 Oct 2024 – Scottsbluff WTP; Brogie 2025). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). See related taxonomic discussions under Mallard and Mottled Duck. Whether Mexican Duck is a valid species has been a matter of […]
MOTTLED DUCK
Anas fulvigula maculosa Status: Rare casual summer visitor. Documentation: Photograph: 5 Oct 1958 Loup River, Howard Co (Lemburg 1980, Bray et al 1986). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), fulvigula of Florida and maculosa of the Gulf Coast from Alabama to northeastern Mexico. See Mallard for relationships between members of the North America monochromatic […]
AMERICAN BLACK DUCK
Anas rubripes Status: Rare regular fall and spring migrant and winter visitor east, accidental west. Rare casual summer visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNK un-numbered, 20 Oct 1912 Kearney, Buffalo Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). As discussed under Mallard (https://birds.outdoornebraska.gov/mallard), hybridization of American Black Duck with Mallard was limited if not non-existent prior […]
MALLARD
Anas platyrhynchos PLATYRHYNCHOS Status: Abundant regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Common regular breeder statewide. Common, locally abundant, regular winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM7674, 11 Apr 1916 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are currently recognized, worldwide nominate platyrhynchos, and conboschas, confined to Greenland (AviList 2025). Nebraska birds are presumed platyrhynchos. The history of […]
AMERICAN WIGEON
Mareca americana Status: Common, locally abundant, regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Rare regular breeder northcentral and northwest, rare casual elsewhere. Uncommon regular summer visitor northcentral and northwest, rare casual elsewhere. Rare, locally uncommon, regular winter visitor Platte and North Platte River Valley counties southward and Missouri River Valley north to Knox Co, rare casual […]
EURASIAN WIGEON
Mareca penelope Status: Rare casual spring and fall migrant statewide, rare casual winter visitor west and west central. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 1782, 26 Sep 1914 Inland, Clay Co (Swenk, Notes Before 1925). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). This species was recently moved from genus Anas to genus Mareca, based on genetic studies (Chesser […]