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bufflehead::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
| Type of | duck |
Examples of bufflehead
bufflehead
Bufflehead ducks floated around a nearby pond until visitors scared them into flight.
From the thenewstribune.com
Look for mallards, bufflehead, ring-necked ducks and common mergansers.
From the sfgate.com
The male bufflehead are particularly striking with their contrasting black and white markings.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Best marsh bird was a black duck by Derek Fife, of Oak Harbor, with best diver, a bufflehead, by Costilow.
From the toledoblade.com
Galena is also known for its birding, so the ornithologist in the group can track down the bufflehead.
From the dailyherald.com
Diving ducks in this area include the canvasback, greater scaup, bufflehead, common goldeneye and the hooded merganser.
From the thenewstribune.com
Here were a large block of bufflehead, some ring-necked ducks, ruddy ducks, American coot and pied-billed grebe.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Also hunted are black duck, wood duck, blue wing teal, green wing teal, bufflehead, shoveler, widgeon, and goldeneye.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There are also large flocks of horned larks that eat seeds from old sunflower heads as well as teal, goldeneye and bufflehead ducks.
From the sltrib.com
- Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
- The Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) 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.
