Paroaria coronata Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: One reported at a feeder in Lincoln, Lancaster Co Sep 1972 through 30 Apr 1973 was determined to be an escapee from the Lincoln Zoo (Bennett 1973). This South American species is established in Hawaii (AOU 1983); its native range is […]
[BLUE BUNTING]
Cyanocompsa parellina Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized, none of regular occurrence north of Mexico (AviList 2025). Comments: The single report, of one in Otoe Co 22 Jan 2015 was not accepted by NOURC as “lacking substantive evidence for a first state record” (Brogie 2016). Almost all records of this species are […]
[PYRRHULOXIA]
Cardinalis sinuatus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Three subspecies are recognized, two north of Mexico: fulvescens, resident in southern Arizona, and sinuatus, resident from southern New Mexico to southeast Texas (AviList 2025). Comments: A bird fitting the description of this species was seen feeding young at Genoa, Nance Co 24 Aug 2000; an apparent female, […]
[AUDUBON’S ORIOLE]
Icterus graduacauta Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), one occurring in the US: audubonii, resident from south Texas into Mexico. Comments: A description furnished by the observer to the NOURC of one in McPherson Co 7 Jun 1985 was not sufficient to confirm the identification as Audubon’s Oriole; this is […]
[ABERT’S TOWHEE]
Melozone aberti Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025): dumeticolus, resident from Utah to southeast California and southwest Arizona, and aberti, resident from southern Arizona to southwest New Mexico. Comments: A description of one reported 29 Sep 1980 at Tryon (Bassett 1980; Cortelyou 1981) was not considered diagnostic (Bray et al […]
[EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH]
Carduelis carduelis Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Ten subspecies are recognized in the native European range following split of four Asian subspecies as C. caniceps Grey-crowned Goldfinch (AviList 2025). Comments: One was reported without details at a feeder in Scribner, Dodge Co 13 and 17 Feb 1996 (Carson 1996). This species is listed by AOU […]