Bucephala albeola

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• Description
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Woodlands of North America

Vegetation: freshwater lakes and ponds, freshwater marshes, coastal waters • Maximum Elevation: 2,500 meters • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,632 meters (0 to 11,916 feet).[1]

Biology

Diet

aquatic insects, clams, shrimps, seeds of pond weeds and bulrushes.

Reproduction

Breeding Habitat : Wetland-open water Nest Type : Cavity Clutch Size: 6-14 Length of Incubation : 29-31(28-33) days Days to Fledge : 50-55 Number of Broods: 1

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001.

Similar Species

Hooded Merganser, Ruddy Duck

Members of the genus Bucephala

There are approximately 7 species in this genus:

B. albeola (Little Black and White Duck) · B. clangula (Common Goldeneye Whistler) · B. clangula americana (Common Goldeneye) · B. clangula clangula (Common Goldeneye Whistler) · B. clangula ssp · B. clangula x · B. islandica (Rocky Mountain Goldeneye)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A review of the birds of Connecticut. By C. Hart Merriam. New Haven, Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, Printers, 1877. ENG url p. 126, p. 142, p. 146, p. 152.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 149, p. 420, p. 438.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Birds in Kansas / Max C. Thompson and Charles Ely. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History: c1989- ENG url p. 116, p. 396.
• Birds of the Northwest: a hand-book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries / by Elliott Coues. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1874. ENG url p. 576, p. 577.
• Birds. With the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. Washington, D.C., 1858. ENG url p. 795, p. 797.
• Brigham Young University science bulletin. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, [1955-1976] ENG url p. 6.
• British birds. London, Witherby and Co. ENG url p. 7.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 108, p. 243, p. 309, p. 33, p. 332, p. 50, p. 62, p. 72.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) ENG url p. 212.
• Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Salem, Mass., Essex Institute. ENG url p. 13, p. 27, p. 38, p. 40.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 105, p. 106, p. 163, p. 364, p. 399, p. 404.
• Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Cambridge, Mass.: The Club, [1876-1883] ENG url p. 246, p. 33.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. ENG url p. 380.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 387.
• Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. ENG url p. 123, p. 135, p. 52.
• Fauna of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula, by Olaus J. Murie. Invertebrates and fishes collected in the Aleutians, 1936-38, by Victor B. Scheffer. [Washington, Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1959] ENG url p. 88.
• Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds, and a check list of North American birds, by Elliott Coues. Salem [Mass.]Naturalists' Agency, 1874. ENG url p. 97.
• Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. ENG url p. 531.
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. ENG url p. 51.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. ENG url p. 214.
• Guide to the birds of Europe and North Africa. With a biographical memoir by William Eagle Clarke. London, Gurney and Jackson, 1923. ENG url p. 228.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Clark, M. A. WhoZoo.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 09, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 23 providers.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, North West Territories and Nunavut Bird Checklist, Canada
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Ontario Nest Records
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Royal British Columbia Museum
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• New Brunswick Museum, NBM birds
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854430
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175145
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13726929
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175145
• IUCN ID: 47233
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNJB18030
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 6869

Footnotes

1. Mean = 337.990 meters (1,108.891 feet), Standard Deviation = 520.150 based on 20,000 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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