Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
Description
The bufflehead is the smallest diving or sea duck in North America. The name buffalo head or "bufflehead" is a direct reference to the duck's large-headed appearance.
Bufflehead (Bucephela albeola)
The Bufflehead is from North America where it breeds from Alaska to Hudson Bay and winters along the west and east coats of North America and in the southern USA and northern Mexico.
Bufflehead
Bufflehead, Diving Duck (Bucephala albeola)
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Species Code: BUAL ...
Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
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Length: 10 inches Wingspan: 24 inches
Very small compact diving duck
Very small dark gray bill
Immature female similar to adult female, but immature male has a larger white cheek patch ...
Bufflehead
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Bufflehead
Relatives in same Genus
Common Goldeneye (B. clangula)
Barrow's Goldeneye (B. islandica) ...
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
No photo of the Bufflehead available.
The Bufflehead is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order.
Bufflehead: Diet includes insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and seeds. Forages in open, shallow water and dives from the surface for food.
Vocalization
Bufflehead: Male Bufflehead makes a squeaky whistle; female has a soft, hoarse quack.
Buffleheads form monogamous pairs. They may even keep the same mate for several successive years as pairs return to the same breeding territory and nest tree season after season.
Bufflehead Behaviour
No observations regarding Bufflehead behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Buffleheads ...
Buffleheads are expert divers, able to stay under water for more than a minute, then often popping up a long way from where they disappeared. One duck usually remains on the surface to watch for danger as the rest of its group dives for food.
The Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small diving duck which breeds across much of Canada and Alaska and winters across large areas of the United States and Mexico. The first 8 shots shown here were taken in Austin, Travis Co.
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Bufflehead
(Bucephala albeola)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as a migrant on lakes and ponds in throughout the lab.
Paired goldeneyes usu dominate territory-defending Bufflehead, but Bufflehead can expel goldeneye yearlings, females, and unpaired males.
One of the smallest ducks found in the state, the Bufflehead can be distinguished by the male's large white patch on the back of its otherwise black head.
Bufflehead
Bucephala albeola (Linnaeus)
Status Fairly common transient, uncommon in winter. Autumn migrants generally appear in the second half of October (average 23 October, earliest 15 October).
Buffleheads walk on dry land only when leading their young to water. They take flight by running on water, flying low over water and higher over land.
Bufflehead comes from the now archaic word buffle, meaning ‘buffalo.' Bufflehead is the condensed version of ‘Buffalo Head', the name these ducks were originally given.
Bufflehead Bucephala albeola - Adult male in breeding plumage
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Bufflehead Bucephala albeola Found: North America
Photographed by: 1) Alan_D_Wilson Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California 2, 3, 7) John Ennis
4, 6) Dick Daniels at Sylvan Heights 5) Dick in North Carolina 8) Dick in ...
3. Bufflehead ruckus on Golden Gate Park's North Lake...testosterone is beginning to flow as winter ends
4. Surfbird from Sutro Baths, SF
5. Say's Phoebe, San Francisco, where it is a regular wintering bird ...
Bufflehead
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Indigo Bunting
Summer Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Bufflehead Bucephala albeola. Common in winter, early spring, and late fall in Tennessee Valley and Gulf Coast regions. Uncommon in winter, spring, and fall in Inland Coastal Plain and Mountain regions. Found on lakes, bays, and slow-moving rivers.
3/24/2001 Coast of NH Common (several dozen) and Red Throated (a few) Loons Red-necked and Horned Grebes Double-crested (My first of the year) and Great Cormorants Long-tailed Duck Surf, White-winged and Black Scoters Common Eiders Bufflehead and ...
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
Fulvous Whistling-duck (Dendrocygna bicolor)
Gadwall (Anas strepera) ...
Are goldeneyes and buffleheads considered "sea ducks"?
A. No. While taxonomically, goldeneyes, bufflehead, and mergansers are lumped in with scoters, eiders, long tailed ducks (formerly old squaw), and harlequins in the sea duck tribe, ...
On the 12/29/04 Mattamuskeet Christmas Bird Count I was starting to scope from the observation platform in the middle of the causeway, when a visiting beginning birder without a scope asked me "what are those little ducks - Bufflehead?".
BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK.
[Bufflehead.]
FULIGULA ALBEOLA, Linn.
[Bucephala albeola.] ...
Look closely in the ponds to see a variety of ducks, including buffleheads, canvasbacks, blue-winged teals, wood ducks and hooded mergansers.
Turtles ...
 See also: Duck, Goldeneye, Scoter, Common Goldeneye, Merganser
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