Picoides arcticus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are currently recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: Despite several Nebraska reports, none are acceptably documented; none of the collected specimens cited below are known to be extant. There is only one report since 1970, a bird at Smith Lake WMA, Sheridan Co 25 Jun 2011, but the brevity […]
[FLAMMULATED OWL]
Psiloscops flammeolus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: This species has been re-assigned from Otus to monotypic genus Psiloscops based on genetic, vocal, and morphological considerations (Wink et al 2009, Chesser et al 2013). No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: There are three reports, two of which seem quite likely to be of this species, […]
[SCALED QUAIL]
Callipepla squamata Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Four subspecies are recognized, the closest to Nebraska C. s. hargravei in southeastern Colorado (AviList 2025). It is not known which subspecies were included in Nebraska releases. The nearest records to Nebraska are some 85 miles to the southwest, near Arriba, in Lincoln Co, Colorado (eBird.org, accessed Apr […]
[WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD]
Phaethon lepturus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: There are six subspecies recognized in tropical oceans, one in the Americas, catesbyi of the Caribbean (AviList 2025). Comments: One reported flying along the South Platte River in Lincoln Co 13-14 May 1973 (Cortelyou 1973a) was later suggested to be a tern trailing a fishing line (Cortelyou 1973b). […]
[SLATY-BACKED GULL]
Larus schistisagus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: There is a report of a basic adult at Harlan County Reservoir, Harlan Co 22 Jan 2000 (eBird.org checklist, Jorgensen 2002). Photographs were obtained, and all features visible in the photographs and noted in the observer’s description indicated this species. However, […]
[BLACK SKIMMER]
Rhynchops niger Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: There are three subspecies (AviList 2025): cinerascens and intercedens of South America, and niger of coastal USA and Mexico. Comments: There are two reports, neither acceptably documented. One was reported at Pawnee Lake, Lancaster Co, 10 Sep 2005, but the report was not accepted by NOURC as it […]