Columbina inca Status: Rare casual winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Photograph: 28 Oct 1987-7 Mar 1988 Kearney, Buffalo Co (Paine 1988). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Winter: Inca Dove has been reported eight times, all documented (see Comments). All but one of the records are of birds which arrive in fall and attempt to […]
PASSENGER PIGEON
Ectopistes migratorius Status: Extinct. Documentation: Specimen: HMM 2914, 1880s near Cook, Johnson Co (Brooking 1942). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AOU 1957). Records: The Nebraska specimen cited above is on display at the Hastings Municipal Museum. The specimen was recovered “from an old case of birds found in a barn in Johnson County, Nebraska. It […]
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
Streptopelia decaocto Status: Common, locally abundant, regular resident statewide. Documentation: Specimens: ZM-18428 (female) and 18429 (male), 29 Nov 2005 “found dead one day after blizzard” in Bassett, Rock Co. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized within Eurasian S. decaocto (AviList 2025) since its split from Burmese Collared-Dove S. xanthocycla and elevation to species status (Romagosa 2020). […]
BAND-TAILED PIGEON
Patagioenas fasciata Status: Rare casual spring and fall visitor. Documentation: Photograph: 15 May 2000 Gering, Scotts Bluff Co (Jorgensen 2002). Taxonomy: New world pigeons previously included in Columba have been allocated to the genus Patagioenas (Banks et al 2003). There are six subspecies recognized (AviList 2025), two north of Mexico: fasciata, breeding near the Pacific […]
ROCK PIGEON
Columba livia Status: Common regular resident statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM 13458, 26 May 1977 Lincoln, Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: In the strict sense, Columba livia refers to the Rock Dove of Eurasia east to central Asia and Africa; North American Rock Pigeons are an amalgamation of several wild subspecies from the native range in central Asia […]
RUDDY DUCK
Oxyura jamaicensis JAMAICENSIS Status: Common, locally abundant, regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Locally uncommon regular breeder Sandhills, rare Rainwater Basin, rare casual elsewhere. Rare casual summer and winter visitor statewide. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM12481, 26 Dec 1912 Lancaster Co. Taxonomy: AviList (2025) considers two Andean taxa (ferruginea, andina) and the North American taxon (jamaicensis) […]