Psaltriparus minimus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: There are nine subspecies, four south of the USA, and five breeding in the USA (Pyle 1997). Four subspecies breeding from British Columbia to southern California comprise the Brown-crowned Group, and there are two monotypic groups: Gray-crowned or Interior, consisting of plumbeus, which is resident from east-central Oregon […]
[CAROLINA CHICKADEE]
Poecile carolinensis Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: The genus Poecile, previously a sub-genus within Parus, was raised to generic status by Banks et al (1997) based on genetic studies by Gill et al (2005) and Slikas et al (1996). There are four subspecies recognized, nearest to Nebraska atricapilloides of southern Kansas to central Texas (Gill […]
[WOODHOUSE’S SCRUB-JAY]
Aphelocoma woodhouseii Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Former Western Scrub-Jay A. californica with 14 subspecies was split into two species (Chesser et al 2016, Curry et al 2020, Gill et al 2022): California Scrub-Jay (A. californica) of the western USA west of the Rocky Mountains from Washington to Baja California, retaining seven subspecies, and Woodhouse’s […]
[BLACK-CAPPED VIREO]
Vireo atricapillus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). Comments: The only report accompanied by tangible evidence is that of a specimen HMM 2866, collected by Wallace and Brooking near Meadow in Sarpy Co 19 May 1921 and now on display at the Hastings Municipal Museum (Bray et al […]
COUCH’S KINGBIRD
Tyrannus couchii Status: Accidental in fall. Documentation: Recording, photographs: 28 Nov and 15-19 Dec 2024 North Platte, Lincoln Co (Christine and Robert Nelson, eBird.org). [NOTE: Report is pending NOURC decision] Taxonomy: Recently, Chesser et al (2018) rearranged the order of subfamilies within the Tyrannidae, placing Tyranninae (Nebraska-occurring genera Myiarchus, Pitangus, Tyrannus) ahead of Fluvicolinae (Nebraska-occurring […]
[GREEN JAY]
Cyanocorax yncas Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Pyle (1997) recognized 12 subspecies, but a case has been made, but yet to be considered by AOS (Gill et al 2022) for splitting five South American subspecies as Inca Jay (C. yncas) with the remaining seven Central American subspecies as Green Jay (C. luxuosus); only one of […]