Birds of the Cedar Point Biological Station Area, Keith and Garden Counties, Nebraska: Seasonal Occurrence and Breeding Data

Authors

Charles R. Brown, Department of Biological Sciences, University of TulsaFollow
Mary Bomberger Brown, Department of Biological Sciences, University of TulsaFollow
Paul A. Johnsgard, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Josef Kren, Midland Lutheran CollegeFollow
William C. Scharf, Department of Biology, Lake Superior State UniversityFollow

Date of this Version

1-1-1996

Comments

Published in Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 23 (1996), pp.91–108. Used by permission. Order of authorship deter¬mined alphabetically.

Abstract

The North Platte River valley (elev. ca 3300 ft/990 m) in Garden and Keith counties, Nebraska, has an avifauna of 305 species, the richest known north of Texas in the Great Plains. More than 25 years of observations, mist-netting, banding, and breeding-bird surveys by the authors and others have revealed 104 breeding, 17 probably breeding, and 184 transient, casual, and accidental species. Hybridization of eastern with western species is evidenced by intermediates between Rose-breasted and Black-headed grosbeaks, Indigo and Lazuli buntings, Eastern and Spotted towhees, Baltimore and Bullock’s orioles, and yellow- and red-shafted morphs of Northern Flicker; Eastern and Western wood-pewees potentially hybridize because both breed in the area.