Setophaga occidentalis Status: Rare casual spring migrant. Documentation: Photo: 15 May 2002 male 5.5 miles north of Creighton, Knox Co (Brogie 2002, 2003). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). This species and Townsend’s Warbler hybridize commonly in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon (Morrison and Hardy 1983). Although not reported for […]
BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER
Setophaga nigrescens halseii Status: Rare casual spring migrant west, accidental east. Rare casual fall migrant west and central. Documentation: Photograph: 16 May 2008 Crescent Lake NWR, Garden Co (Brogie 2009). Taxonomy: Although two subspecies have been recognized (Pyle 1997), they are poorly differentiated and current authors treat the species as monotypic (Guzy and Lowther 2020, […]
GRACE’S WARBLER
Setophaga graciae graciae Status: Rare casual spring and fall visitor. Documentation: Photograph: 4 May 2008 Crescent Lake NWR, Garden Co (Brogie 2009). Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized, three of which occur from Mexico south to Nicaragua, and one in the US: graciae, breeding from southwestern US and northwest Mexico south to northern Sinaloa (Gill et […]
PAINTED BUNTING
Passerina ciris Status: Rare casual statewide spring visitor. Accidental in fall. Documentation: Specimen: UNK, 26 Apr 1960 Kearney, Buffalo Co (Brown 1960, Wetmore 1961). Taxonomy: There have been two subspecies generally recognized (for example Gill et al (2022), but the difficulty of diagnosing them has led to some current authors considering the species monotypic (Pyle […]
HEPATIC TANAGER
Piranga flava Status: Accidental in winter. Documentation: Videotape: 6 Jan 1999 West Point, Cuming Co (Jorgensen 2001, 2003). Taxonomy: There are 15 subspecies recognized (Pyle 1997, Eddleman 2020), usually divided into three groups, each raised to species status by some authors (Gill et al 2022); in this treatment, two new species occur south of the […]
SWAINSON’S WARBLER
Limnothlypis swainsonii Status: Accidental in spring. Documentation: 15 May 2018 Wilderness Park, Lancaster Co; recordings: Stearns (2018), Leger (2018); photograph: Carlini (2018). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). Record: The single accepted record is of one at Wilderness Park, Lancaster Co 15 May 2018 (cited above; Brogie 2019). This bird was located […]