bufflehead
noun
buf·fle·head
ˈbə-fəl-ˌhed 
: a small North American diving duck (Bucephala albeola)
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Along with them were four mute swans and nearly a dozen buffleheads.
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Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
The male buffleheads, much brighter than the females, bobbed their heads up and down, touched the water and showed off their spring mating rituals.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Like the loons and pelicans, the mergansers and the buffleheads, which breed in northern Minnesota and Canada, among other places, are just passing through.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
In all, birders on the October tour spotted (or overheard) 78 different bird species: Royal terns, buffleheads, trumpeter swans, American-Golden plovers.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
Some species, including wood ducks, buffleheads and mergansers, will stay in the forested areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota to nest in tree cavities.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
Those wishing to target buffleheads, or for that matter, canvasbacks or goldeneyes, should set a handful of drake bufflehead decoys off to one side of the spread.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 30 Nov. 2023
Details here and here. BEACH WALK Beach season starts now: Grab your binoculars to check out sandpipers, eiders, buffleheads at Norman Bird Sanctuary’s stroll on Third Beach.
—Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
Highlights included a sooty shearwater and 16 Wilson’s storm-petrels off George’s Island in Boston Harbor, a bufflehead in Winthrop, a least bittern at Belle Isle in East Boston, and a hooded merganser and an alder flycatcher at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
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Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
The male buffleheads, much brighter than the females, bobbed their heads up and down, touched the water and showed off their spring mating rituals.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Like the loons and pelicans, the mergansers and the buffleheads, which breed in northern Minnesota and Canada, among other places, are just passing through.
—Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
In all, birders on the October tour spotted (or overheard) 78 different bird species: Royal terns, buffleheads, trumpeter swans, American-Golden plovers.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
Some species, including wood ducks, buffleheads and mergansers, will stay in the forested areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota to nest in tree cavities.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
Those wishing to target buffleheads, or for that matter, canvasbacks or goldeneyes, should set a handful of drake bufflehead decoys off to one side of the spread.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 30 Nov. 2023
Details here and here. BEACH WALK Beach season starts now: Grab your binoculars to check out sandpipers, eiders, buffleheads at Norman Bird Sanctuary’s stroll on Third Beach.
—Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
Highlights included a sooty shearwater and 16 Wilson’s storm-petrels off George’s Island in Boston Harbor, a bufflehead in Winthrop, a least bittern at Belle Isle in East Boston, and a hooded merganser and an alder flycatcher at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
—BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
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