Bufflehead
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phylum | Chordata | The bufflehead is a small American sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Anas albeola. 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.
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clade | Diapsida | |
Class | Aves | |
order | Anseriformes | |
family | Anatidae | |
genus | Bucephala | |
species | B. albeola |