Mareca strepera x Anas acuta Status: Rare casual spring visitor statewide Records: The only record is of one at Mormon Canal, Knox Co 29 Mar 2024 (Tommy Childers, Joni Rauert; eBird.org). Comments: Including the Nebraska record, there are only four Great Plains records, the others one in western Minnesota and two in eastern Colorado, along […]
Cinnamon x Green-winged Teal (hybrid)
Spatula cyanoptera x ANAS CRECCA Status: Casual in spring. Records: There are two records: 7 May 2017 Father Hupp WMA, Thayer Co (Jorgensen photos, ebird.org) 16-18 Mar 2024 Wagon Train SRA, Lancaster Co (Straus et al, photos, eBird.org) Comments: This is a rare hybrid; the two Nebraska records are the only ones on the Great […]
Gray-crowned x Black Rosy-Finch (hybrid)
Leucosticte tephrocotis X LEUCOSTICTE atrata Status: Accidental. Documentation: Photographs: 9 Jan 2024 Toadstool Road, Sioux Co (Mlodinow, eBird Checklist – 9 Jan 2024). Taxonomy: For some time, the three Nearctic forms (Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch L. tephrocotis, Black Rosy-Finch L. atrata, and Brown-capped Rosy-Finch L. australis) were treated as subspecies of Asian Rosy-Finch L. arctoa, but were […]
Ring-necked Duck x scaup sp. (hybrid)
Aythya collaris x AYTHYA AFFINIS/MARILA. Status: Accidental in fall. Record: There is one record of this hybrid combination, a single at Gering WTP, Scotts Bluff Co 31 Oct 2023 (Mlodinow, eBird.org). Comments: There are numerous records across North America of this hybrid combination (eBird. org, accessed Jan 2024), which is reportable to eBird for scaup […]
Ring-necked Duck x Lesser Scaup (hybrid)
Aythya collaris x AYTHYA affinis Status: Rare winter visitor statewide. Records: There are 10 records, the first in 2021, most in spring, presumably a reflection of increasing interest in hybrid waterfowl by observers. 31 Oct 2022 Scottsbluff WTP, Scotts Bluff Co (Mlodinow, eBird.org) 1 Jan 2021 Cedar Co (Strand, eBird.org) 10 Mar 2022 Lake Ogallala, […]
Redhead x Lesser Scaup (hybrid)
Aythya americana x AYTHYA affinis Status: Accidental in spring. Taxonomy: Redhead is known to have hybridized with each of the other four North American Aythya in the wild, Canvasback, Lesser Scaup, Greater Scaup, and Ring-necked Duck (Woodin and Michot 2020). Record: A drake was photographed in the Gavin’s Point Dam area, Cedar Co 1 and […]