Bufflehead

Bucephala albeola

Summary 2

The bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Anas albeola.

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) Rick Leche, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), http://www.flickr.com/photos/64649343@N00/381050741
  2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephala_albeola

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Taxonomy:genus Bucephala
Taxonomy:family Anatidae
Taxonomy:order Anseriformes
Taxonomy:class Aves