Podiceps auratus cornutus Status: Fairly common regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Rare casual winter visitor central and east. Documentation: Specimen: UNK Olson #3, 16 Apr 1910 Alda, Hall Co (Bray et al 1986). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized, auritus in the Palearctic, and cornutus in North America (AviList 2025). Nebraska birds are cornutus. Spring: […]
CHIMNEY SWIFT
Chaetura pelagica Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant and breeder east and central, uncommon west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12811, 23 Jun 1892 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Spring: Apr 13, 13, 13 <<<> summer (east, south); Apr 22, 23, 23 <<<>>> summer (north); Apr 25, 25, 26 <<<>>> summer (west). […]
WHITE-THROATED SWIFT
Aeronautes saxatilis saxatilis Status: Fairly common regular spring and fall migrant west. Uncommon local regular breeder west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12814, 1892 Squaw Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), one, nigrior, from southern Mexico to Honduras, and the other, saxatilis, from southwest Canada south to western Mexico, east to the western […]
YELLOW RAIL
Coturnicops noveboracensis noveboracensis Status: Rare casual spring and fall migrant central and east, accidental west. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12604, 8 May 1909 South Bend, Cass Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized, noveboracensis of North America, and goldmani of central Mexico (AviList 2025); goldmani may be extinct (Leston and Bookhout 2020). Nebraska birds are noveboracensis. Spring: […]
EARED GREBE
Podiceps nigricollis californicus Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant central and west, fairly common east. Common regular breeder north and west, rare southeast. Rare casual summer visitor south and east. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6006, 25 Sep 1927 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Three subspecies are recognized: californicus in North and Central America, gurneyi in Africa, and […]
[CHUKAR]
Alectoris chukar Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: There are 14 subspecies in the native Eurasian range (AviList 2025). AviList (2025) calls this species Chukar Partridge. Releases into the US included subspecies koroviakovi and chukar (Christensen 2020). Releases in recent years for dog training purposes are of unknown, likely mixed, provenance. Comments: Several attempts were made […]