Serinus canaria Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Clement (2020) refers to this species as Island Canary. Comments: Cage birds are derived from birds native to the Canary Islands, Azores, and Madeira and usually lack back streaking due to selection by aficionados. A population is established in Hawaii (Clement 2020). […]
[BROWN-CAPPED ROSY-FINCH]
Leucosticte australis Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: A bird found on the Tristate CBC 15 Dec 1984 near Nebraska City was tentatively identified as a female of this species (Cortelyou 1985). It could not be relocated, and it was concluded that it may have been an aberrantly plumaged […]
[NORTHERN RED BISHOP]
Euplectes franciscanus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized, both in the east-central Africa native range (AviList 2025). Comments: A male on the University of Nebraska – Omaha campus, Douglas Co 29 Sep 2016 was unexpected; photo above. There are no known established populations closer than Texas, southern California, and New York (eBird.org, […]
[NORTHERN WHEATEAR]
Oenanthe oenanthe Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Three subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025), two of which breed in North America: oenanthe breeding in northwest North America and wintering in tropical Africa, and leocorhoa breeding in northeast North America and also wintering in tropical Africa. Comments: There are two published reports (Bray et al 1986), neither […]
[BLACK-CRESTED TITMOUSE]
Baeolophus atricristatus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: This species and Tufted Titmouse (B. bicolor) were split as full species based on genetic differences and a presumed stable and narrow hybrid zone in east-central Texas (Banks et al 2002). However, a recent proposal to lump the two has been filed based on new genomic studies and […]
[AMERICAN BUSHTIT]
Psaltriparus minimus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Ten subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025, Sloane 2020), six north of Mexico, comprised of three along the Pacific Coast, and three in the Interior: californicus of interior Oregon to southern California, dimorphicus of mountains of extreme southwestern New Mexico and west and central Texas into north-central Mexico, and […]