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Common Goldeneye

Bucephala clangula

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

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. Those recorded in Arkansas first, the rest by region.

Land cover and other classes (1)
  • Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.

All habitats

Seasons in Arkansas

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

Food plants

Diet records by plant genus, from studies across North America. Not a record from this state. Plants matched by genus.

Native plants in these genera 36

Plant genera in its diet records (5)
  • Lemna Leaves. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in Arkansas
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in Arkansas
  • Potamogeton Seeds. 1 diet record. 10 native plants in Arkansas
  • Sagittaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 8 native plants in Arkansas
  • Scirpus Seeds. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Arkansas

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Arkansas, by how much of its habitat model each one is, with the birds most characteristic of each and the plants that grow wild there. Shared habitat, not food.

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 60

Plants 143

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Arkansas

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources