Zenaida macroura marginella Status: Abundant regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Common regular breeder statewide. Uncommon regular winter visitor south and east, rare north and North Platte River Valley, rare casual elsewhere in Panhandle. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM 6232, 30 May 1914 Haigler, Dundy Co. Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), two occupying North America […]
WHITE-WINGED DOVE
Zenaida asiatica Status: Increasing. Uncommon resident, more numerous in summer than winter, especially south of dashed line on map. Rare casual breeder statewide. Documentation: Photograph: 11-16 May 1994 Lincoln, Lancaster Co (Gubanyi 1996a). Taxonomy: Three subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025): mearnsi of the southwest US and western Mexico, asiatica of the southern US to Nicaragua […]
COMMON GROUND DOVE
Columbina passerina Status: Rare casual fall visitor statewide. Documentation: Description: 18 Nov 1979 Washington Co (Padelford and Padelford 1980). Taxonomy: Eighteen subspecies are recognized, two north of Mexico (AviList 2025): passerina occurs in the coastal southeast US (South Carolina to extreme southeast Texas) and pallescens in the arid southwest US east to south and central […]
INCA DOVE
Columbina inca Status: Rare casual winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Photograph: 28 Oct 1987-7 Mar 1988 Kearney, Buffalo Co (Paine 1988). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Winter: Inca Dove has been reported eight times, all documented (see Comments). All but one of the records are of birds which arrive in fall and attempt to […]
PASSENGER PIGEON
Ectopistes migratorius Status: Extinct. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 2914, 1880s near Cook, Johnson Co (Brooking 1942). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AOU 1957). Records: The Nebraska specimen cited above is on display at the Hastings Municipal Museum. The specimen was recovered “from an old case of birds found in a barn in Johnson County, Nebraska. It […]
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
Streptopelia decaocto Status: Common, locally abundant, regular resident statewide. Documentation: Specimens: ZM-18428 (female) and 18429 (male), 29 Nov 2005 “found dead one day after blizzard” in Bassett, Rock Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized within Eurasian S. decaocto (AviList 2025) since its split from Burmese Collared-Dove S. xanthocycla and elevation to species status (Romagosa 2020). […]