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Bucephala albeola 010🦆

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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Bufflehead

Bucephala albeola (Linnaeus, 1758)

زغباء الرأس أو جاموسية الرأس (الاسم العلمي: Bucephala albeola)، نوع من الطيور تتبع جنس ذهبية العين ضمن الفصيلة البطية ضمن رتبة البطيات. تعود سبب هذه التسمية إلى حجم الرأس مقارنة بحجم الجسم. يبلغ طول هذا الطير بين ما بين 32 و40 سم، ويزن ما بين 270 إلى 550 جرام، والذكور يفوقون الإناث في الحجم.

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≈ 1/160th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.4 kg
Body length
0.39 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
19 years
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Everything we know about the Bufflehead

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.4 kgrecord 0.4 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male481 kgWikidataQ576762
  • Female367 kgWikidataQ576762

Figures vary

  • 0.4 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.39 mmaximum recorded, total length
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.16 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
19 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
30 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 8
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.4 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Bufflehead yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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In other languages
morell capblanc (ca), hohol bělavý (cs), Bøffeland (da), Büffelkopfente (de), Bucephala albeola (es), pikkutelkkä (fi) … and 24 more languages
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