Phalaenoptilus nuttallii nuttallii Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant west and west central, uncommon east central, rare casual east. Common regular breeder west, uncommon central, rare casual east.Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6247, 24 May 1900 Monroe Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: Of the six subspecies recognized (Gill and Donsker 2017), only one occurs as far north […]
PURPLE GALLINULE
Porphyrio martinicus Status: Rare casual summer visitor central. Documentation: Photograph: 13 Sep 2019 Hastings, Adams Co (Eric Javins; Brogie 2020). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized. Summer: There are two documented records: 2 May 1946 Pauline, Adams Co (Ager 1946) 13 Sep 2019 Hastings, Adams Co (cited above) The first was of a bird seen in […]
COMMON GALLINULE
Gallinula galeata cachinnans Status: Rare casual spring migrant south and east. Rare casual breeder east. Rare casual fall migrant. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM10394, 4 May 1911 Exeter, Fillmore Co. Taxonomy: This species was split from Old World Common Moorhen G. chloropus by Chesser et al (2011). Common Gallinule (G. galeata) comprises seven subspecies, three in […]
KING RAIL
Rallus elegans elegans Status: Rare casual spring and summer visitor statewide. Rare casual breeder east. Rare casual fall migrant statewide. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 2496, Inland, Clay Co 5 Jun 1916 (Swenk, Notes After 1925). Taxonomy: After the taxonomic revision of Rallus rails (Chesser et al 2014), King Rail as reconstituted contains two subspecies, elegans of […]
CLAPPER RAIL
Rallus crepitans crepitans Status: Accidental in winter. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM14120, 30 Jan 1951 near Stapleton, Logan Co (Rapp and Rapp 1951). Taxonomy: Recently (Chesser et al 2014) the 15 or so subspecies previously included in Clapper Rail R. longirostris (AOU 1957) were split into two groups, seven in South America, under Mangrove Rail R. […]
BLACK RAIL
Laterallus jamaicensis Status: Rare casual spring and summer visitor statewide. Federally listed as Threatened. Documentation: Recording: 25 May 1986 Knox Co (Brogie and Brogie 1987, Brogie 1999). Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized, three in South America, and two in North America: coterniculus of California and Baja, Mexico, and jamaicensis of the eastern United States and […]