Mareca americana x Anas platyrhynchos Status: Rare casual in winter. Records: There are four records: 25 Nov-20 Dec 2024 Scottsbluff WTP, Scotts Bluff Co (Mlodinow, eBird.org) 16 Jan 2022 Scotts Bluff Co (Hunter Baillie, personal communication; photo) 20 Mar 2021 […]
Townsend’s x Black-throated Green Warbler (hybrid)
Setophaga townsendi x virens Status: Accidental in spring and fall. Records: There are two: 8 May 2022 Wilderness Park, Lancaster Co (Shari Schwattz, John Carlini; eBird Checklist – 8 May 2022 – Wilderness Park – 40 species (+2 other taxa). 31 Aug 2018 Wildcat Hills Nature Center, Scotts Bluff Co (Mark Brogie; King et al […]
Summer x Scarlet Tanager (hybrid)
Piranga rubra x olivacea Status: Accidental in spring. Records: There are two records, around 130 years apart. An adult male collected by L. Skow at Omaha 20 May 1892 (USNM 128032) is labeled a “possible hybrid” between this species and Scarlet Tanager, although Ridgway was more definite, and considered it “an unmistakable case of hybridism […]
Golden-winged Warbler x Blue-winged Warbler (hybrid)
Vermivora chrysoptera x VERMIVORA cyanoptera Status: Rare casual spring and fall migrant east. Documentation: Brewster’s Warbler: photograph, 18 May 2020 Madison Co (Brogie, in gallery). Taxonomy: This species and Blue-winged Warbler V. cyanoptera hybridize frequently and produce fertile hybrids; their genomes are 99.97% identical, with plumage genes accounting for the difference (Toews et al 2016). […]
BONO now includes species accounts for hybrids
Joel G. Jorgensen and W. Ross Silcock| joel.jorgensen@nebraska.gov, silcock@rosssilcock.com | 28 February 2021 During February 2021, we added stand-alone species accounts on The Birds of Nebraska – Online (BONO) for all avian hybrids reported in Nebraska that we have been able to inventory. Previously, hybrids were discussed in the Taxonomy section of one of the […]
Bullock’s x Baltimore Oriole (hybrid)
Icterus bullockii x ICTERUS galbula Status: Uncommon regular summer visitor west and west central, rare casual elsewhere. Summer: May 8, 8, 9 <<<>>> Jul 25, 26, 28 Later dates are 4 Aug 2012 Red Willow Co, 7 Aug 2020 Keith Co, 7-26 Aug 2024 at three Lake Mcconaughy, Keith Co locations, 29 Aug 2021 Rock […]