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Common Goldeneye

Bucephala clangula

Photo by DonnaPomeroy
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Female Description
Head chocolate brown. Back, wings, and tail slaty gray. Flanks, belly, and breast white. Eyes pale yellow to white. Short, triangular bill black with yellow tip of variable length.

Habitat:

small freshwater pond in urban park

Notes:

In the third photo, the eye is covered by the nictitating eyelid (third eyelid).

Reference Links:

Common Goldeneye, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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PublishedFebruary 18, 2012

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