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Bufflehead

Bucephala albeola

Photo by Ava T-B
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Field Notes

Description:

This is a female Bufflehead. They are the smallest duck in the US.

Habitat:

They are migratory and most of them winter in protected coastal waters, or open inland waters, on the east and west coasts of North America and the southern United States. The Bufflehead is an extremely rare vagrant to western Europe. Their breeding habitat is wooded lakes and ponds in Alaska and Canada, almost entirely included in the boreal forest or taiga habitat.

Notes:

Saw this female on Mission Bay in San Diego.

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