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Common Goldeneye

Bucephala clangula

A winter visitor to North Carolina, found in 36 of 100 counties and 2 habitats.

Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
36 of 100 counties
Habitats
2

At a glance

Group
Birds
Here
Winter
Nesting
Not known to nest here
Range
36 of 100 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 North Carolina 2

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

1 of 2

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Georgia pond and emergent wetland
WinterOpen Water (Fresh)Regional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

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 North Carolina

  • Winter: does not nest here, in 36 of 100 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 46

Plant genera in its diet records (5)
  • Lemna Leaves. 1 diet record. 7 native plants in North Carolina
  • Polygonum Seeds. 1 diet record. 5 native plants in North Carolina
  • Potamogeton Seeds. 1 diet record. 11 native plants in North Carolina
  • Sagittaria Seeds. 1 diet record. 13 native plants in North Carolina
  • Scirpus Seeds. 1 diet record. 10 native plants in North Carolina

Avian Diet Database (Hurlbert Lab), CC0 1.0.

Also found in its main habitats

Its main habitats in North Carolina, 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 78

Plants 11

All of sounds, bays and tidal flats in North Carolina

Ponds, lakes and their shores

Birds 90

Plants 211

All of ponds, lakes and their shores in North Carolina

USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.

Sources