Anser rossii x Branta hutchinsii Status: Rare casual winter visitor statewide. Records: There are 15 records: 31 Oct 2023 Gering WTP, Scotts Bluff Co (Mlodinow, eBird.org) 8 Nov 2021 Scotts Bluff Co (Mlodinow, eBird.org) 16 Nov 2020 Dundy Co (Mlodinow, eBird.org) 20 and 29 Nov 2021 (2) Lake Minatare, Scotts Bluff Co (Mlodinow, eBird.org) 30 […]
Snow x Cackling Goose (hybrid)
Anser caerulescens x Branta hutchinsii Status: Rare regular winter visitor west and west central; rare casual elsewhere. Records: There are about 45 records, 31 Oct-28 Mar, most in the Panhandle and east to Keith and Lincoln Cos (eBird.org, accessed Jan 2024). Most are associated with Cackling Geese. Reports in the east central and east are fewer: […]
Snow x Ross’s Goose (hybrid)
Anser caerulescens x ANSER rossii Status: Rare regular spring and fall migrant. Taxonomy: Hybridization occurs between Snow Goose and Ross’s Goose, estimated at 4.7% of a sample of around 12,000 Ross’s and Snow Geese in the Central Flyway examined between 1961 and 1968 (Trauger et al 1971, Baldassare 2014). This percentage will likely increase as […]
Redhead x Ring-necked Duck (hybrid)
Aythya americana x Aythya collaris 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 documented at Flanagan Lake, Douglas Co 4-6 Apr 2020 by Sam […]
NORTHERN CARDINAL
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 […]
TRUMPETER SWAN
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 […]