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Bufflehead

Bucephala albeola

A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in all 64 parishes and 2 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
All 64 parishes
Habitats
2
Habitat models
Winter

Where it lives

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

Habitats in Louisiana 2

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

1 of 2

Ponds, lakes and their shores

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

WinterOpen Water (Fresh)

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

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.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

All habitats

Seasons in Louisiana

  • Winter: does not nest here, in all 64 parishes.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Louisiana, 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.

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Birds 91

Plants 8

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in Louisiana

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 91

Plants 162

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Louisiana

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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