Sialia currucoides Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant west and west-central, rare east-central, rare casual east. Fairly common regular breeder west. Uncommon regular winter visitor west and central, rare casual east. Documentation: UNSM ZM6695, 24 May 1900 Monroe Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). See The Eastern x Mountain Bluebird […]
HERMIT THRUSH
Catharus guttatus faxoni, C. g. auduboni, C. g. guttatus/OROMELUS Status: Fairly common regular spring migrant east, uncommon west and south, rare casual north. Fairly common regular fall migrant east and west, uncommon central. Rare winter visitor southeast and Platte River Valley, rare casual elsewhere. Accidental in summer. Documentation: Specimen: faxoni: UNSM ZM6670, 9 Apr 1900 […]
WINTER WREN
Troglodytes hiemalis hiemalis Status: Uncommon regular spring and fall migrant east, rare east central, rare casual west central and west. Uncommon regular winter visitor south and east, rare casual north and west. Accidental in summer. Documentation: UNSM ZM6573, 2 Dec 1901 Dunbar, Otoe Co. Taxonomy: Recent genetic studies (Drovetski et al 2004, Toews and Irwin […]
CEDAR WAXWING
Bombycilla cedrorum Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Fairly common regular breeder east and central, uncommon west. Common regular winter visitor statewide. Documentation: UNSM ZM12051, 8 Mar 1890 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025, Witmer et al 2020). Spring: Cedar Waxwings are observed commonly in winter and because of this, […]
AMERICAN PIPIT
Anthus rubescens Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Rare casual winter visitor central. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6724, 19 Oct 1899 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), rubescens, breeding from the Aleutian Islands eastward through northern Canada and western Greenland, and southward along the Cascades and Rocky Mountains to Oregon and […]
BOHEMIAN WAXWING
Bombycilla garrulus pallidiceps Status: Rare casual winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12046, 7 Dec 1889 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), garrulus of Eurasia, and pallidiceps of western Canada and northern and western USA. Witmer (2024) considered centralasiae of central and eastern Siberia poorly distinguishable from garrulus and included it within […]