Egretta caerulea Status: Rare regular spring and fall migrant and summer visitor east and east central, rare casual west central and west. Accidental breeder Lancaster Co. Documentation: Specimen: UNSM ZM14585, Jun 1898 Lincoln, Lancaster Co (see Snowy Egret). Taxonomy: No subspecies are recognized (Gill et al 2022). Spring: Apr 21, 21, 21 <<<>>> summer Earlier […]
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 […]
Alphabetical Listing
SPECIES ACCOUNTS – Alphabetical Order (Taxonomic Order) A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | […]
Species Accounts
SPECIES ACCOUNTS – Taxonomic Order Asterisk (*) indicates status treated differently by the Nebraska Ornithologists Union’s Records Committee, see https://noubirds.org/Birds/StateList.aspx; Bracketed species (e.g., [Pyrrhuloxia]) have no accepted Nebraska records. 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) [Bar-headed Goose] (Anser indicus) […]
Species Accounts – Taxonomic Listing
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 […]