Nebraska Rare Bird Alert
September 25, 2003

Birds Mentioned:
AMERICAN AVOCET
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
AMERICAN PIPIT
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER
BELTED KINGFISHER
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER
BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER
BROAD-WINGED HAWK
CALIFORNIA GULL
CAROLINA WREN
CASSIN'S KINGBIRD
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
COMMON TERN
COOPER'S HAWK
EASTERN BLUEBIRD
EASTERN PHOEBE
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
GREAT EGRET
GREEN HERON
GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE
HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
INDIGO BUNTING
LEAST SANDPIPER
LESSER YELLOWLEGS
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER
MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER
MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD
NASHVILLE WARBLER
NORTHERN HARRIER
MARSH WREN
OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
OSPREY
PECTORAL SANDPIPER
PEREGRINE FALCON
PIED-BILLED GREBE
PYGMY NUTHATCH
RED CROSSBILL
RED-EYED VIREO
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET
RUFOUS-SIDED TOWHEE
SANDERLING
SAY'S PHOEBE
SOLITARY SANDPIPER
SORA
SPOTTED TOWHEE
SPRAGUE'S PIPIT
SUMMER TANAGER
SWAINSON'S HAWK
TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE
TOWNSEND'S WARBLER
WESTERN GREBE
WESTERN KINGBIRD
WESTERN TANAGER
WILSON'S SNIPE
WILSON'S WABLER
WINTER WREN
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER

Compiler: Josef Kren
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In Saunders County on the 16th, Northern Harrier was seen at Jack Sinn WMA south of
Ceresco.

In Lancaster County on the 15th and 17th, 2 Sprague's Pipits were seen at Spring
Creek Prairie near Denton.

In Furnas County on the 16th, a Green Heron and a Say's Phoebe were seen at Cambridge
Diversion Dam on the Republican River east of Cambridge.

In Custer and southern Blaine Counties on the 19th, several Eastern Phoebes and two
large flocks of Eastern Bluebirds were recorded.

In Lincoln County on 19th, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 2 Wilson's Snipes, a Pectoral
Sandpiper and a Solitary Sandpiper were seen at the North Platte Fish Hatchery Ponds.
Also Cooper's Hawk and Eurasian Collared-Dove were recorded near Brady.

In Scotts Bluff County on the 19th, a Western Tanager, a Pygmy Nuthatch, 30 Red
Crossbills, a Spotted Towhee, a small flock of Mountain Bluebirds and a Yellow-rumped
Warbler were seen at the Wildcat Hills Nature Center.

In Cass County on the 20th, 3 Broad-winged Hawks, 4 Red-eyed Vireos, 3 Ruby-crowned
Kinglets, 6 Eastern Phoebes, a Olive-sided Flycatcher and 60 American White Pelicans
were recorded at Schramm State Park and Louisville SRA.

In Valley County on the 20th, a Cooper's Hawk, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers, 60 American
White Pelicans, 2 Swainson's Hawks, a Pied-billed Grebe, 18 Eastern Bluebirds, and a
Say's Phobe were seen.

In Lancaster County on the 22nd, a Osprey was seen at Bluestem lake.

In the Panhandle on the 20th and 21st, 21,000 Western Grebes at Lake McConaughy,
2 Great Egrets, 1200 American White Pelicans, 5 Ospreys, a Peregrine Falcon, 60 American
Avocets, an American Golden-Plover, 5 Black-bellied Plovers, 400 Lesser Yellowlegs,
an Hudsonian Godwit at Lake McConaughy, 1,500 Baird's Sandpipers, 300 Least Sandpipers,
200 Pectoral Sandpipers, 8 Sanderlings, 80 Long-billed Dowitchers, 14 Red-necked
Phalaropes, 8 Common Terns, a Hammond's Flycatcher, 3 Cassin's Kingbirds, 5 Western
Kingbirds, 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, 3 Townsend's Solitaires, 36 American Pipits,
7 Orange-crowned Warblers, a Townsend's Warbler, 91 Wilson's Warblers, a MacGillivray's
Warbler, a Summer Tanager, 3 Western Tanagers, and 2 Green-tailed Towhees were seen
Oliver Reservoir, Bushnell area, Wildcat Hills, Lakes Alice, Winters Creek, and
Minatare, Ash Hollow, Lake McConaughy and Lake Ogallala.

In Lancaster County on the 23rd, 7 Sprague's Pipits, a Black-crowned Night-heron and 3
Eastern Phoebes were seen at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton.

In Furnas County on the 23rd, 2 Nashville Warblers were seen in Wilsonville.

In Sarpy County on the 23rd, an Osprey, a Sora, a Carolina Wren, and Nashville Warbler
were seen at Fontanelle Forest Wetlands.

In Sarpy County on the 23rd, a Winter Wren was seen in Bellevue.

In Dixon County on the 23rd, a Indigo Bunting, a Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Yellow-rumped
Warbler and Northern Harrier were seen in Wakefield.

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