Pagophila eburnea Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: A report of an adult seen briefly 12 Oct 1986 in Antelope Co (Marsh and Marsh 1986) was not accepted by the NOURC (Mollhoff 1987). It was described as a “white gull” with “black legs and feet and a black bill”; […]
[AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER]
Haematopus palliatus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Two subspecies are recognized, one, galapagensis, restricted to the Galapagos Islands and the other, palliatus, found on coasts throughout the Americas (AviList 2025). Comments: This species was listed by Bruner (1896) based on a specimen reportedly taken in northeastern Nebraska in spring 1889 by Charles Vaughn. However Bruner […]
[LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN]
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Status: Hypothetical. Status unresolved. The tangible history of this species in Nebraska is based on specimens from near Danbury in extreme southern Red Willow Co shot by hunters and provided to HMM by an H. Frates (Swenk MS, in Sharpe 1968). Sharpe (1968) examined some of the specimens and concluded they were undoubtedly […]
[GREATER ROADRUNNER]
Geococcyx californianus Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (AviList 2025). Comments: There are five reports without adequate documentation. A single bird identified as this species ran across the road in front of a car driven by observers familiar with the species one mile northwest of Funk, Phelps Co 29 Mar 2004. The report […]
[CHUKAR]
Alectoris chukar Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: There are 14 subspecies in the native Eurasian range (AviList 2025). AviList (2025) calls this species Chukar Partridge. Releases into the US included subspecies koroviakovi and chukar (Christensen 2020). Releases in recent years for dog training purposes are of unknown, likely mixed, provenance. Comments: Several attempts were made […]
[COMMON QUAIL]
Coturnix coturnix Status: No accepted records. Taxonomy: Five subspecies are currently recognized in its native Eurasian and African range (AviList 2025). Common Quail is considered monophyletic since the split of Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica (McGowan et al 2023). Comments: The only information regarding this species (rather than Japanese Quail) in Nebraska is of the release […]