Bufflehead
Bucephala albeola
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 73,906
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The bufflehead is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. It breeds in Alaska and Canada and migrates in winter to southern North America. This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Anas albeola.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bufflehead”.