Nebraska Review List

species requiring documentation

Some Rare Nebraska Birds

Barrow’s Goldeneye
© T.J. Walker
Brown Pelican
© Justin Rink
Brown Pelican
© Ruth Stearns
Common Crane
© Paul Dunbar
Black-headed Gull
© Noah Arthur
Ross’s Gull
© Terry Sohl
Arctic Tern
© Joel Jorgensen
Royal Tern
© Don & Janis Paseka
Northern Saw-whet Owl
© Wayne Mollhoff
Lewis’s Woodpecker
© Bonnie James
Ash-throated Flycatcher
© Joe Gubanyi
Varied Thrush
© Paul Roisen
Virginia’s Warbler
© Paul Dunbar
Cape May Warbler
© Phi Swanson
Black-throated Sparrow
© Mark A. Brogie
Black-throated Sparrow
© Paul Roisen
Black-throated Sparrow
© Ed M. Brogie
Smith’s Longspur
© Tom Johnson
Brambling
© Paul Dunbar
Evening Grosbeak
© Virginia Clark
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
© Ellen Brogie
Brown-headed Nuthatch
© Phil Swanson

Documentation of the following species, or anything new to the state, is requested by the Nebraska Records Committee.  You may submit your own form or use the Documentation Form found on our site.

Fulvous Whistling-Duck Emperor Goose Taiga Bean-Goose Garganey
Mexican Duck Mottled Duck Tufted Duck King Eider
Common Eider Harlequin Duck Ruffed Grouse Greater Sage-Grouse
Lesser Prairie-Chicken Band-tailed Pigeon Inca Dove Common Ground Dove
Groove-billed Ani Costa's Hummingbird Broad-billed Hummingbird King Rail
Clapper Rail Purple Gallinule Yellow Rail Black Rail
Limpkin Common Crane Hooded Crane Eskimo Curlew
Red Knot Ruff Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Curlew Sandpiper
Red Phalarope Pomarine Jaeger Parasitic Jaeger Long-tailed Jaeger
Ancient Murrelet Black-headed Gull Little Gull Ross’s Gull
Western Gull Glaucous-winged Gull Arctic Tern Royal Tern
Yellow-billed Loon Wood Stork Magnificent Frigatebird Brown Booby
Anhinga Brown Pelican Tricolored Heron Reddish Egret
White Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Black Vulture White-tailed Kite
Swallow-tailed Kite Harris’s Hawk Zone-tailed Hawk Northern Hawk Owl
Great Gray Owl Boreal Owl Acorn Woodpecker Williamson’s Sapsucker
American Three-toed Woodpecker Crested Caracara Gyrfalcon Great Kiskadee
Couch's Kingbird Black Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Black-capped Vireo
Canada Jay Fish Crow Chihuahuan Raven Cave Swallow
Phainopepla Brown-headed Nuthatch Canyon Wren Bewick’s Wren
Pacific Wren Curve-billed Thrasher American Dipper Western Bluebird
Eurasian Tree Sparrow Brambling Black Rosy-Finch Black-throated Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow Sagebrush Sparrow Baird’s Sparrow Hooded Oriole
Scott’s Oriole Swainson’s Warbler Virginia’s Warbler Prairie Warbler
Grace's Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Hermit Warbler Hepatic Tanager
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