Bird

Bufflehead

Bucephala albeola

A winter visitor to Arkansas, found in all 75 counties and 1 habitat.

Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: All 75 counties
Habitats: 1

Male Bufflehead, whole bird — Male. (c) Andrew Lai, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY. iNaturalist photo 459828601. iNaturalist large derivative; no local crop or retouch.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Here: Winter
Nesting: Not known to nest here
Range: All 75 counties
Habitats: 1
Habitat models: Winter

Where it lives

The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.

Habitats in Arkansas 1

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Other habitats in its models (1)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.

Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.

Seasons in Arkansas

Winter: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.

Also found in this habitat

Wildlife 77

Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.

Common Loon
Gavia immer
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Common Merganser
Mergus merganser
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Common Nighthawk
Chordeiles minor
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Common Tern
Sterna hirundo
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Double-crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Eared Grebe
Podiceps nigricollis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Eastern Kingbird
Tyrannus tyrannus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Forster's Tern
Sterna forsteri
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Gadwall
Anas strepera
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Great Egret
Ardea alba
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Greater White-fronted Goose
Anser albifrons
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleuca
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Green Heron
Butorides virescens
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Horned Grebe
Podiceps auritus
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Interior Least Tern
Sternula antillarum athalassos
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Bittern
Ixobrychus exilis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Least Tern
Sternula antillarum
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Lesser Scaup
Aythya affinis
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes
Birds. 1 shared habitat
Little Blue Heron
Egretta caerulea
Birds. 1 shared habitat

NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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