Bird
Common Goldeneye
Bucephala clangula
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 49 of 64 parishes and 2 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 49 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 2
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 49 of 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
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
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 Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 49 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 110
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Little GullHydrocoloeus minutus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Neotropic CormorantPhalacrocorax brasilianus
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Sandhill CraneGrus canadensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snow GooseChen caerulescens
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Snowy PloverCharadrius nivosus
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 Common Goldeneye
- 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)