SPECIES ACCOUNTS – Taxonomic Order (Alphabetical Order) TINAMOUS (Order Tinamiformes, Family Tinamidae) [Elegant-crested Tinamou] (Eudromia elegans) WATERFOWL (Order Anseriformes, Family Anatidae) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) Fulvous Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) Emperor Goose (Anser canagicus) Snow Goose (Anser caerulescens) Ross’s Goose (Anser rossii) [Swan Goose] (Anser cygnoides) Taiga Bean-Goose (Anser fabalis) Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) Greater White-fronted […]
Hybrids
WATERFOWL (Order Anseriformes, Family Anatidae) Snow x Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser caerulescens x albifrons) Snow x Ross’s Goose (Anser caerulescens x rossii) Snow x Cackling Goose (Anser caerulescens x Branta hutchinsii) Snow x Canada Goose (Anser caerulescens x Branta canadensis) Ross’s Goose x Cackling Goose (Anser rossii x Branta hutchinsii) Ross’s x Canada Goose (Anser […]
SNOWY EGRET
Egretta thula thula Status: Uncommon regular spring and fall migrant statewide. Uncommon regular summer visitor statewide. Accidental breeder Crescent Lake NWR, Garden Co. Documentation: Photograph: Jun 1965 Crescent Lake NWR (Roger Sharpe, personal communication) Taxonomy: Two subspecies are currently recognized (Gill et al 2022), brewsteri of the Rocky Mountains westward and thula of the rest […]
VIRGINIA RAIL
Rallus limicola limicola Status: Uncommon regular spring and fall migrant east and west, common central. Uncommon, locally common, regular breeder north and west, rare south and east. Uncommon local regular winter visitor west and central, rare casual elsewhere. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM6100, 14 Jun 1902 Marsh Lake, Cherry Co. Taxonomy: Traditionally four subspecies, but two […]