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Common Goldeneye

Bucephala clangula

A winter visitor to Mississippi, found in 41 of 82 counties and 2 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
41 of 82 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
41 of 82 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 41 of 82 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 33

Plant genera in its diet records (5)
  • Lemna Leaves. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 1 native plant in Mississippi
  • Potamogeton Seeds. 1 diet record. 9 native plants in Mississippi
  • Sagittaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 11 native plants in Mississippi
  • Scirpus Seeds. 1 diet record. 6 native plants in Mississippi

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in Mississippi, 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 81

Plants 11

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in Mississippi

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 81

Plants 200

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in Mississippi

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

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