Bird
Bufflehead
Bucephala albeola
A winter visitor to Alabama, found in all 67 counties and 2 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 2

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 67 counties
- Habitats
- 2
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Alabama 2
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
1 of 2

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.
Seasons in Alabama
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 96
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Alabama. Not sighting records.
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- GadwallAnas strepera
- Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus
- Gray KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Horned GrebePodiceps auritus
- Least BitternIxobrychus exilis
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Bufflehead Slow streams only
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)

























