Centrocercus urophasianus Status: Extirpated. Documentation: Specimens: pair, SUI 16130 and 16131, 27 Dec 1894, “Nebraska”. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). AviList (2025) calls this species simply “Sage Grouse”. Records: Current understanding of the pre-settlement range, including Nebraska, and current range, which does not include Nebraska, is mapped in Schroeder et al (2004). These […]
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Callipepla californica Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized in its native western US and northwestern Mexico range (AviList 2025). It is not known which subspecies was/were released in Nebraska. Comments: The only release of these birds was of about 70 in Butler, Madison, Knox, and Douglas Cos in 1939; a covey was […]
PIED-BILLED GREBE
Podilymbus podiceps podiceps Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Common regular breeder Sandhills, fairly common elsewhere. Rare casual winter visitor North Platte and Platte River valleys southward. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6004, 20 Apr 1890 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Three subspecies are recognized, podiceps in continental North America, antillarum in the Greater and Lesser Antilles, […]
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE
Anser albifrons GAMBELLI Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant central, fairly common east, uncommon west. Rare regular summer visitor south and east, rare casual north and west. Rare regular winter visitor central and east, rare casual west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12412, 1937 or 1938 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Five subspecies are generally recognized, two Eurasian, […]
ROSS’S GOOSE
Anser rossii Status: Increasing. Abundant regular spring migrant statewide. Rare regular summer visitor central and east. Common regular fall migrant statewide. Rare regular winter visitor west, south, and east. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM11255, 6 Nov 1922 Hooper, Dodge Co (Tate 1966). Taxonomy: The genus Chen was recently lumped with genus Anser based on genetic studies […]
SNOW GOOSE
Anser caerulescens caerulescens, A. c. atlanticus Status: Abundant regular spring migrant east, south and west, uncommon north. Uncommon regular summer visitor statewide. Abundant regular fall migrant central and east, common west. Uncommon regular winter visitor east, south and west, rare north. Documentation: caerulescens: specimen UNSM ZM10619, 28 Mar 1917 Lancaster Co; atlanticus: photograph by William Lemburg […]