Anhinga anhinga leucogaster Status: Rare casual spring visitor southeast. Documentation: Photograph: 18 May 2017 Swan Creek WMA, Saline Co (William Flack, eBird.org; Brogie 2018). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), leucogaster of the southeastern United States and northern Caribbean, and anhinga of South America and the southern Caribbean. Anhinga has traditionally consisted of four […]
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT
Nannopterum brasilianum mexicanum Status: Rare regular summer visitor east and central Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM14226, 2 Oct 1982 Sutherland Reservoir (Wright 1983). Taxonomy: Chesser et al (2021) split New World Double-crested, Neotropic, and Flightless cormorants from Phalacrocorax to the resurrected genus Nannopterum, which required a specific epithet change from brasilianus to brasilianum and subspecies change […]
REDDISH EGRET
Egretta rufescens rufescens Status: Rare casual summer visitor. Documentation: Photograph: 27 Sep-15 Oct 2000 Lake McConaughy, Keith Co (Dinsmore 2001, Jorgensen 2002, Brogie 2009). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), dickeyi of southern California and Baja California, and rufescens of southern North America, West Indies, and Mexico. Nebraska records are presumed rufescens. Summer: There […]
BROWN PELICAN
Pelecanus occidentalis carolinensis, P. O. californicus Status: Rare casual summer visitor. Accidental in winter. Documentation: carolinensis: photograph 27 Jun-3 Jul 2002 Gavin’s Point Dam, Cedar Co (Brogie 2003); californicus: photograph 26 Dec 2014-15 Mar 2015 Sutherland Reservoir, Lincoln Co (Brogie 2015, Brogie 2016). Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), two in South America, one in […]
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Pelecanus erythrorhynchus Status: Abundant regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Rare casual breeder Sandhills. Uncommon, locally common, regular summer visitor central and west, uncommon elsewhere. Locally rare regular winter visitor south, rare casual elsewhere. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12393, 31 May 1959 Lincoln, Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Changes Since 2000: Larger […]
BROWN BOOBY
Sula leucogaster LEUCOGASTER Status: Rare casual summer visitor central and east. Documentation: Photograph: 30 Jun 2014 Sarpy Co (Brogie 2015). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025): leucogaster of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean, and plotus of the Indian Ocean and central and western Pacific. Two subspecies, brewsteri of islands off Southern California and […]