Calypte anna Status: Rare casual spring, summer, and fall visitor statewide. Documentation: Photograph: 19 Nov 2016 Omaha, Douglas Co (Brogie 2017). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Records: There are nine records, the first as recently as 2016: 28 May 2020 adult female Dawes Co (Whittecar, photos; Brogie 2023) 21 Jun 2019 immature male […]
CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRD
Selasphorus calliope Status: Rare casual spring migrant west. Uncommon regular fall migrant west, rare casual central and east. Documentation: Specimen: display mount at Wildcat Hills Nature Center, Scotts Bluff Co, 23 Jun 1994 Sioux Co (Gubanyi 1996; Silcock and Rosche 1994). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Calliope Hummingbird was formerly included in genus […]
RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD
Selasphorus rufus Status: Uncommon regular fall migrant west and central, rare regular east. Accidental in spring. Documentation: Specimen: UNO B218, late Aug 1971 Scotts Bluff Co (Bray et al 1986). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). See Comments below regarding Allen’s Hummingbird (S. sasin), as yet unrecorded in Nebraska. Spring: The only documented record […]
RUFFED GROUSE
Bonasa umbellus MEDIANA Status: Extirpated. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 1984 (pair), 1916 Dodge Co (Swenk, Notes Before 1925). Taxonomy: Pyle (2008) listed 10 subspecies, although variation and color phases make accurate separation difficult; some authors suggest as many as 15 subspecies (Rusch et al 2020). AviList (2025) lists 13 subspecies. The extirpated eastern Nebraska population (mediana), […]
COMMON POORWILL
Phalaenoptilus nuttallii nuttallii Status: Common regular spring and fall migrant west and west central, uncommon east central, rare casual east. Common regular breeder west, uncommon central, rare casual east.Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6247, 24 May 1900 Monroe Canyon, Sioux Co. Taxonomy: Of the six subspecies recognized (AviList 2025), only one occurs as far north as Nebraska […]
PURPLE GALLINULE
Porphyrio martinicA Status: Rare casual summer visitor central. Documentation: Photograph: 13 Sep 2019 Hastings, Adams Co (Eric Javins; Brogie 2020). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). The specific epithet martinica is used here (Chesser et 2024, AviList (2025). Summer: There are two documented records: 2 May 1946 Pauline, Adams Co (Ager 1946) 13 Sep […]