Calypte anna Status: Rare casual spring, summer, and fall visitor statewide. Documentation: Photograph: 19 Nov 2016 Omaha, Douglas Co (Brogie 2017). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Records: There are nine records, the first as recently as 2016: 28 May 2020 adult female Dawes Co (Whittecar, photos; Brogie 2023) 21 Jun 2019 immature male […]
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD
Selasphorus calliope Status: Rare casual spring migrant west. Uncommon regular fall migrant west, rare casual central and east. Documentation: Specimen: display mount at Wildcat Hills Nature Center, Scotts Bluff Co, 23 Jun 1994 Sioux Co (Gubanyi 1996; Silcock and Rosche 1994). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Calliope Hummingbird was formerly included in genus […]
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD
Selasphorus rufus Status: Uncommon regular fall migrant west and west central, rare east central and east. Accidental in spring. Documentation: Specimen: UNO B218, late Aug 1971 Scotts Bluff Co (Bray et al 1986). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). See Comments below regarding Allen’s Hummingbird (S. sasin), as yet unrecorded in Nebraska. Spring: The […]
RUFFED GROUSE
Bonasa umbellus MEDIANA Status: Extirpated. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 1984 (pair), 1916 Dodge Co (Swenk, Notes Before 1925). Taxonomy: AviList (2025) recognizes 13 subspecies; Pyle (2008) listed 10 but pointed out variation and color phases make accurate separation difficult. The extirpated eastern Nebraska population (mediana) occupies the “western disjunct portion of the range” (Rusch et al […]
COMMON POORWILL
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 (AviList 2025), only one occurs as far north as Nebraska […]
PURPLE GALLINULE
Porphyrio martinicA Status: Rare casual spring and fall visitor central. Documentation: Photograph: 13 Sep 2019 Hastings, Adams Co (Eric Javins; Brogie 2020). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). The specific epithet martinica is used here (Chesser et 2024, AviList (2025). Spring and Fall: There are three documented records: 2 May 1946 Pauline, Adams Co […]