Bird
Common Goldeneye
Bucephala clangula
A winter visitor to West Virginia, found in all 55 counties and 1 habitat.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 55 counties
- Habitats
- 1

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- 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
- Winter: does not nest here, in all 55 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 64
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in West Virginia. Not sighting records.
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Double-crested CormorantPhalacrocorax auritus
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
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)

























