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: The 15 subspecies previously included in Clapper Rail R. longirostris (AOU 1957) were split into two groups in 2014, seven in South America (a new subspecies was described in 2016) under Mangrove […]
BLACK RAIL
Laterallus jamaicensis 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 […]
GROOVE-BILLED ANI
Crotophaga sulcirostris Status: Rare casual fall visitor central and east. Documentation: Photograph: 15 Oct-1 Nov 1975 Hall Co (Stoppkotte 1975). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Former weakly-differentiated subspecies sulcirostris, which is resident in south Texas, has a history of northward vagrancy (Pyle 1997). It is listed as occurring in Kansas (Johnston 1965) and […]
RED-NECKED GREBE
Podiceps grisegena holbollii Status: Rare casual spring migrant and summer visitor statewide. Rare regular fall migrant 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 (AviList 2025). Nebraska birds are holbollii. Spring: The number […]
NORTHERN BOBWHITE
Colinus virginianus taylori Status: Fairly common regular resident east and most of central; rare elsewhere. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6093, 19 Jun 1902 Keya Paha Co. Taxonomy: AviList (2025) recognized 20 subspecies; subspecies mexicanus and marilandicus recognized by Brennan et al (2020) were included within virginianus by AviList (2025). The range of mexicanus (=virginianus) was described […]