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Bucephala albeola 010🦆

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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Bufflehead

Bucephala albeola (Linnaeus, 1758)

白枕鹊鸭（台湾作巨頭鵲鴨）（学名：Bucephala albeola），是雁形目鸭科的一种鸟类。

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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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Facts and figures

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
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

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

Maximum lifespan
19 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
30 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 8
AnAge
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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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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAnseriformes
  5. ›familyAnatidae
  6. ›genusBucephala
  7. ›speciesBucephala albeola
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  3. familyAnatidae
  4. genusBucephala
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  12. familyAnatidae
  13. genusBucephala
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morell capblanc (ca), hohol bělavý (cs), Bøffeland (da), Büffelkopfente (de), Bucephala albeola (es), pikkutelkkä (fi) … and 24 more languages
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