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 New World species was split from Old World Common Moorhen G. chloropus (Chesser et al 2011). Common Gallinule (G. galeata) comprises seven subspecies, three […]
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: The 15 subspecies previously included in Clapper Rail R. longirostris (AOU 1957) were split into two groups in 2014, seven in South America (a new subspecies was described in 2016) under Mangrove […]
BLACK RAIL
Laterallus jamaicensis 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 […]
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Geococcyx californianus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: There are five reports without adequate documentation. A single bird identified as this species ran across the road in front of a car driven by observers familiar with the species one mile northwest of Funk, Phelps Co 29 Mar 2004. The report […]
GROOVE-BILLED ANI
Crotophaga sulcirostris Status: Rare casual fall visitor central and east. Documentation: Photograph: 15 Oct-1 Nov 1975 Hall Co (Stoppkotte 1975). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Former weakly-differentiated subspecies sulcirostris, which is resident in south Texas, has a history of northward vagrancy (Pyle 1997). It is listed as occurring in Kansas (Johnston 1965) and […]