Nevada Bird Records Committee Review List
Most recent revision date: 3/29/2021
The contents of this web page are based on the major revision of the Nevada Bird Records Committee (NBRC) Review List undertaken by Chris Elphick, with assistance from numerous Nevada birders, in 2001, and include an additional major revision carried out by the full committee in 2009 and a further major revision resulting from changes in the review list criteria in 2018. The original publication of this list in Great Basin Birds 4(1), 2001, included a very informative discussion of the 2001 revision effort and history, elaborately documented by Chris Elphick. Nevada birders who assisted in the effort are credited there by name.
Note: For taxa that have ever been considered full species by the American Ornithological Society, or are currently considered full species by other national or international ornithological societies, the committee may choose to review records for those taxa even though other conspecifics are not rare in Nevada. (Example: "Eurasian" Green-winged Teal.)
Table 1. The Nevada Bird Records Committee Review List.
Sightings of all species on this list require documentation. Species (other than introduced species) that are not on this list and that do not appear on the official Nevada Checklist also require documentation. (Introduced species which are not on the official Nevada Checklist should not be submitted except in the special circumstance where that species is on the ABA checklist and is also on the official checklist of a state adjacent to Nevada.) To document your sightings, use the online submission form on this website or send your documentation as email to the NBRC Secretary at:
Bohman --AT-SYMBOL-- gbbo --DOT-- org
You can also send documentation through conventional mail to NBRC c/o GBBO, 1755 E. Plumb Lane, Suite 256A, Reno, NV 89502.
Common Name | Scientific Name | Supported by 'p' photo, 'v' video, 'a' audio, 's' specimen. |
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna autumnalis | p |
Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | ps |
Green-winged Teal (Eurasian) | Anas crecca crecca | p |
King Eider | Somateria spectabilis | p |
Harlequin Duck | Histrionicus histrionicus | p |
Ruddy Ground-Dove | Columbina talpacoti | p |
Groove-billed Ani | Crotophaga sulcirostris | p |
Chuck-will's-widow | Antrostomus carolinensis | |
Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | |
Rivoli's Hummingbird | Eugenes fulgens | p |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Archilochus colubris | p |
Broad-billed Hummingbird | Cynanthus latirostris | p |
Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinicus | ps |
Black Rail | Laterallus jamaicensis | v |
Common Crane | Grus grus | p |
Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | p |
Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | |
Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | ps |
Black Turnstone | Arenaria melanocephala | p |
Ruff | Calidris pugnax | pv |
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | p |
Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | p |
Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | p |
White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | p |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | |
American Woodcock | Scolopax minor | p |
Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | p |
Ancient Murrelet | Synthliboramphus antiquus | ps |
Red-legged Kittiwake | Rissa brevirostris | ps |
Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | p |
Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | p |
Western Gull | Larus occidentalis | p |
Yellow-footed Gull | Larus livens | p |
Slaty-backed Gull | Larus schistisagus | p |
Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | p |
Black Skimmer | Rynchops niger | p |
Least Storm-Petrel | Oceanodroma microsoma | |
Wood Stork | Mycteria americana | ps |
Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | p |
Blue-footed Booby | Sula nebouxii | p |
Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | p |
Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | p |
Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | |
Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | p |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | p |
White Ibis | Eudocimus albus | p |
Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | pv |
Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | ps |
Snowy Owl | Bubo scandiacus | ps |
Elf Owl | Micrathene whitneyi | ps |
Barred Owl | Strix varia | p |
Red-headed Woodpecker | Melanerpes erythrocephalus | p |
Gila Woodpecker | Melanerpes uropygialis | ps |
Red-bellied Woodpecker | Melanerpes carolinus | p |
Nuttall's Woodpecker | Dryobates nuttallii | p |
Crested Caracara | Caracara cheriway | p |
Gyrfalcon | Falco rusticolus | p |
Dusky-capped Flycatcher | Myiarchus tuberculifer | pva |
Great Crested Flycatcher | Myiarchus crinitus | p |
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher | Myiodynastes luteiventris | |
Tropical Kingbird | Tyrannus melancholicus | pva |
Couch's Kingbird | Tyrannus couchii | pva |
Thick-billed Kingbird | Tyrannus crassirostris | p |
Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | p |
Greater Pewee | Contopus pertinax | |
Eastern Wood-Pewee | Contopus virens | |
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher | Empidonax flaviventris | p |
Hutton's Vireo | Vireo huttoni | p |
Blue-headed Vireo | Vireo solitarius | p |
Philadelphia Vireo | Vireo philadelphicus | pa |
Yellow-green Vireo | Vireo flavoviridis | p |
Winter Wren | Troglodytes hiemalis | pva |
Sedge Wren | Cistothorus platensis | p |
Arctic-Kamchatka Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus borealis/examinandus | pv |
Veery | Catharus fuscescens | pv |
Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | p |
Rufous-backed Robin | Turdus rufopalliatus | p |
Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | |
White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | p |
Olive-backed Pipit | Anthus hodgsoni | ps |
Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
Sprague's Pipit | Anthus spragueii | |
Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | p |
White-winged Crossbill | Loxia leucoptera | p |
Smith's Longspur | Calcarius pictus | p |
Thick-billed Longspur | Rhynchophanes mccownii | p |
Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | p |
Cassin's Sparrow | Peucaea cassinii | p |
Field Sparrow | Spizella pusilla | p |
Le Conte's Sparrow | Ammospiza leconteii | p |
Nelson's Sparrow | Ammodspiza nelsoni | p |
Baird's Sparrow | Centronyx bairdii | p |
Worm-eating Warbler | Helmitheros vermivorum | pa |
Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | pv |
Golden-winged Warbler | Vermivora chrysoptera | p |
Blue-winged Warbler | Vermivora cyanoptera | pa |
Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | pv |
Mourning Warbler | Geothlypis philadelphia | p |
Cerulean Warbler | Setophaga cerulea | ps |
Bay-breasted Warbler | Setophaga castanea | p |
Pine Warbler | Setophaga pinus | p |
Yellow-throated Warbler | Setophaga dominica | p |
Red-faced Warbler | Cardellina rubrifrons | p |
Hepatic Tanager | Piranga flava | pva |
Northern Cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | p |
Pyrrhuloxia | Cardinalis sinuatus | p |
Varied Bunting | Passerina versicolor | p |