Poecile carolinensis Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), nearest to Nebraska atricapilloides of southern Kansas to central Texas. Comments: There are three reports, none convincingly documented. A recording which cannot now be located was made of a call in Fontenelle Forest, Sarpy Co 5 Feb 1969 (Bray et al 1986, Silcock […]
BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE
Pica hudsonia Status: Uncommon regular resident west, locally uncommon southwest, rare elsewhere. Rare casual winter visitor west and south away from breeding locations. Current range (2001-2025) Former Range (prior to 2001, Mollhoff 2001) Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM10305, 14 Jul 1910 Sioux Co. Taxonomy: North American birds, formerly known as Pica pica hudsonia, were recently afforded […]
BLUE JAY
Cyanocitta cristata bromia, C. c. cyanotephra Status: Common regular resident and spring and fall migrant east and central, fairly common west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12259, 30 Dec 1908 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), bromia from central Alberta and northeast Nebraska to Newfoundland and south-central Virginia, cristata resident from southern Illinois to southeast […]
CHIHUAHUAN RAVEN
Corvus cryptoleucus Status: Extirpated; formerly breeder southwest and south-central. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12283, 23 Jun 1951 “Nebraska” (no specific location given). Taxonomy: No subspecies are currently recognized (AviList 2025). North American ravens consist of three lineages, western Common Ravens, northern North American and Old World Common Ravens, and Chihuahuan Raven (Haring et al 2012). There […]
STELLER’S JAY
Cyanocitta stelleri Annectens, C. S. MACROLOPHA Status: Uncommon casual irruptive winter visitor statewide. Documentation: annectens: specimen UNSM ZM7630, Oct 1916 Mitchell, Scotts Bluff Co. macrolopha: photograph: 30 Nov 2022 Carter Canyon, Scotts Bluff Co. Taxonomy: Thirteen subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025); those whose ranges suggest possible occurrence in Nebraska are annectens of interior British Columbia to northeastern […]
[WOODHOUSE’S SCRUB-JAY]
Aphelocoma woodhouseii Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Former Western Scrub-Jay A. californica with 14 subspecies was split into two species: California Scrub-Jay (A. californica) and Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (A. woodhouseii) (Chesser et al 2016). Seven subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025, Curry et al 2020), three north of Mexico: nevadae from southeast Oregon to Arizona and New Mexico, […]