Gallinula galeata cachinnans Status: Rare casual spring migrant south and east. Rare casual breeder east. Rare casual fall migrant. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM10394, 4 May 1911 Exeter, Fillmore Co. Taxonomy: This species was split from Old World Common Moorhen G. chloropus by Chesser et al (2011). Common Gallinule (G. galeata) comprises seven subspecies, three in […]
KING RAIL
Rallus elegans elegans Status: Rare casual spring and summer visitor statewide. Rare casual breeder east. Rare casual fall migrant statewide. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 2496, Inland, Clay Co 5 Jun 1916 (Swenk, Notes After 1925). Taxonomy: After the taxonomic revision of Rallus rails (Chesser et al 2014), King Rail as reconstituted contains two subspecies, elegans of […]
CLAPPER RAIL
Rallus crepitans crepitans Status: Accidental in winter. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM14120, 30 Jan 1951 near Stapleton, Logan Co (Rapp and Rapp 1951). Taxonomy: Recently (Chesser et al 2014) the 15 or so subspecies previously included in Clapper Rail R. longirostris (AOU 1957) were split into two groups, seven in South America, under Mangrove Rail R. […]
BLACK RAIL
Laterallus jamaicensis Status: Rare casual spring and summer visitor statewide. Federally listed as Threatened. Documentation: Recording: 25 May 1986 Knox Co (Brogie and Brogie 1987, Brogie 1999). Taxonomy: Five subspecies are recognized, three in South America, and two in North America: coterniculus of California and Baja, Mexico, and jamaicensis of the eastern United States and […]
GROOVE-BILLED ANI
Crotophaga sulcirostris sulcirostris Status: Rare casual fall visitor central and east. Documentation: Photograph: 15 Oct-1 Nov 1975 Hall Co (Stoppkotte 1975). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are sometimes recognized although Clements et al (2016) and Gill and Donsker 2017) consider the species monotypic. The subspecies pallidula is only a vagrant to the southwest USA, but subspecies sulcirostris, […]
RED-NECKED GREBE
Podiceps grisegena holbollii Status: Rare casual spring migrant statewide. Rare regular fall migrant statewide. Rare casual summer visitor statewide. Accidental in winter. Documentation: Photograph: 24 Nov 1995 Lewis and Clark Lake, Knox Co (Brogie 1996). Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized, grisegena in Eurasia and holbollii in North America (Gill et al 2022). Nebraska birds are […]