Cardinalis cardinalis cardinalis Status: Common regular resident south and east, uncommon north, locally rare west. Rare regular spring, fall, and winter visitor outside breeding range.Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM7063, Dec 1884 Unadilla, Otoe Co. Taxonomy: The number of recognized subspecies varies between 16 and 19 (Pyle 1997, Gill et al 2022, Halkin et al 2021), the […]
Conuropsis carolinensis Status: Extinct (prior to 1850s common resident south and east; Snyder and Russell 2020). Documentation: Specimen: NMNH 4614, 24-25 Apr 1856 McKissock Island, Nemaha Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized, carolinensis occupying the range east of the Appalachians south of Virginia, throughout Florida, and along the Gulf Coast west to eastern Louisiana and […]
Numenius borealis Status: Extinct. Formerly abundant regular spring migrant central. Formerly rare regular fall migrant central. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 2469, Apr 1880 Hamilton Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized. Records: Eskimo Curlew is probably extinct; there are no accepted records for North America since 1962 (O’Brien et al 2006), although Gill et al (2020) listed […]
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 […]
Cygnus buccinator Status: Locally common, regular spring and fall migrant and winter visitor statewide, rare southwest. Locally fairly common regular summer resident at Sandhills lakes, rare elsewhere. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 573, circa 15 Mar 1898 Overton, Dawson Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). Breeding populations that are currently geographically isolated, as […]
