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Common goldeneye Bucephala clangula
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Length: 13 inches Wingspan: 31 inches
Medium-sized diving duck
Yellow eye
Gently sloped forehead
Black bill is small, but larger than in Barrow's Goldeneye ...
Common Goldeneye
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Common Goldeneye
Relatives in same Genus
Bufflehead (B. albeola)
Barrow's Goldeneye (B. islandica) ...
The Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a diving duck which nests across much of Canada and Alaska while wintering across most of the United States on both fresh and salt water.
Common Goldeneye: Medium-sized diving duck with white-striped black upperparts and white underparts. Head is iridescent green-black with white circular patch between yellow eyes and dark gray bill.
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
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Common Goldeneye Behaviour
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Interesting Facts about Common Goldeneye ...
Common Goldeneye
(Bucephala clangula)
Status: Winter Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Common Goldeneye
Bucephala clangula (Linnaeus)
Status Common transient, fairly common in winter, uncommon and local in summer. Breeds.
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Goldeneye
Old scientific name(s): Glaucionetta clangula ...
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula - Male in flight
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Common Goldeneye and Barrow's Goldeneye
The Common Goldeneye really is more common than the Barrow's, at least in the SF Bay Area, and most of the lower 48. Barrow's Goldeneyes tend to be mainly coastal, and more in the northern states.
Common goldeneye
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Common Goldeneye
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
American Goldfinch
Winter Sighting Information: common
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula. Fairly common in winter, spring, and late fall in Tennessee Valley and Gulf Coast regions, but occasional in summer. Uncommon in winter and rare in spring and fall in Mountain region.
Here is a pair of Common Goldeneye, the drake has a glossy green head with a large round white spot before the eye. The female has a dark brown, fairly round head and a gray bill.
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 Common Goldeneyes ...
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
Fulvous Whistling-duck (Dendrocygna bicolor)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons)
Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) ...
They are slightly bigger than Common Goldeneye B. clangula with a longer, less triangular head. The white crescent on the lores reaches above the eye while in the Common Goldeneye it is a spot below the level of the eye.
GOLDEN-EYE DUCK.
[Common Goldeneye.]
FULIGULA CLANGULA, Linn.
[Bucephala clangula.] ...
The Smew (Mergellus albellus) is a small duck which is intermediate between the mergansers and the goldeneyes, and has interbred with the Common Goldeneye. It is the only member of the genus Mergellus (Selby, 1840).
Bucephala clangula - Common Goldeneye
Bucephala albeola - Bufflehead
Bucephala islandica - Barrow's Goldeneye
Mergus
Mergus albellus - Smew
Mergus serrator - Red-breasted Merganser
Mergus merganser - Common Merganser (photo) ...
 See also: Goldeneye, Duck, Scoter, Red-breasted Merganser, Bufflehead
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