Bird
Bufflehead
Bucephala albeola
A winter visitor to West Virginia, found in all 55 counties and 1 habitat.
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 1
At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter and on migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 55 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 West Virginia 1
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Other habitats in its models (1)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in West Virginia.
- Open Water (Brackish/Salt) Winter.
Seasons in West Virginia
- Migratory: does not nest here, in 48 of 55 counties.
- Winter: does not nest here, in 24 of 55 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 64
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in West Virginia. Not sighting records.
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- RedheadAythya americana
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillata
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Tundra SwanCygnus columbianus
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- Yellow-crowned Night-heronNyctanassa violacea
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 Bufflehead Slow streams only
- 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)