Bufflehead
Bucephala albeola
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl
Call and song
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About the Bufflehead
Small, compact diving duck with large head and small gray bill. Breeding males are black and white with large white patch on back of head. Females and immature males are gray-brown with white patch on cheek. Much smaller than Common Goldeneye with which it often associates. Found in bays, estuaries, reservoirs, and lakes in winter. Travels to boreal forest and nests in cavities in summer.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 35 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Bahamas
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greenland
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Russia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
