Species

ASTUR atricapillus Status: Rare regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Rare casual summer visitor northwest. Rare regular winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12491, Nov 1896 near Maxwell, Lincoln Co. Taxonomy: Due to paraphyly in the genus Accipiter as revealed by genetic studies (Catanach et al 2024), four genera were split from Accipiter, including Astur, which comprises […]

Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli Status: Fairly common regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Locally common regular breeder Sandhills, locally uncommon Rainwater Basin, rare casual elsewhere. Rare casual summer visitor statewide away from breeding range. Documentation: Specimen: WSC 275, 22 May 1977 Cherry Co. Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), nycticorax in Eurasia and Africa, obscurus […]

Egretta thula thula Status: Uncommon regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Uncommon regular summer visitor statewide. Accidental breeder Crescent Lake NWR, Garden Co. Documentation: Photograph: Jun 1965 Crescent Lake NWR (Roger Sharpe, personal communication). Three specimens listed by Swenk (Notes Before 1925) were at one time in the Brooking collection but apparently are no longer […]

Egretta tricolor ruficollis Status: Rare casual summer visitor central. Accidental in spring. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 21718, 14 Oct 1918 Kearney Co (Black 1933, 1941; Bray et al 1986). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025): ruficollis (including occidentalis) in southern North America, south to northwestern South America and Trinidad, and tricolor in northeast and north-central […]

Eudocimus albus albus Status: Rare casual summer visitor central. Documentation: Photograph: 5 Jul 1999 Kissinger Basin WPA, Clay Co. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), albus of the southeast United States and Caribbean, and ramobustorum of the Pacific Coast of South America and coastal northern Colombia and Venezuela. Subspecies ramobustorum was erected for South […]

Platalea ajaja Status: Rare casual summer visitor south-central and southeast. Documentation: Description: 16 Sep 1884, Lincoln, Lancaster Co (Swenk 1932, Bray et al 1986). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Formerly placed in the monotypic genus Ajaia, the latter now merged with Platalea (Banks et al 2002). Summer: There are four accepted records. The […]