Check-list of the Birds of Kansas

by Harrison Bruce Tordoff

* Dendrocopos villosus. Hairy Woodpecker. Common resident throughout state.

Subspecies in Kansas: D. v. villosus (Linnaeus).

* Dendrocopos pubescens. Downy Woodpecker. Common resident throughout state.

Subspecies in Kansas: D. p. pubescens (Linnaeus) in southeast (Labette and Montgomery counties), D. p. medianus (Swainson) in rest of state, with fairly broad zone of intergradation between the two subspecies.

Dendrocopos scalaris. Ladder-backed Woodpecker. Common resident in extreme southwestern Kansas (Morton County). Six specimens. No nest found yet in Kansas.

Subspecies in Kansas: D. s. symplectus (Oberholser).

* Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus). Eastern Kingbird. Common transient and summer resident throughout state; most numerous in east.

No subspecies recognized.

* Tyrannus verticalis Say. Western Kingbird. Common transient and summer resident east to Flint Hills; uncommon transient and summer resident in east (occurs regularly at Lawrence but rarely at Kansas City).

No subspecies recognized.