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Definition: Bufflehead |
BuffleheadNoun1. Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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| Bucephala albeola |
The Bufflehead, Bucephala albeola is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes.
Adult males have a dark head with a large white cap behind the eye and a mainly white body with a black back. Adult females have a brown head with a smaller white patch behind the eye and a mainly brown body.
Their breeding habitat is wooded lakes and ponds in Alaska and Canada. They nest in cavities in trees, often using old Flicker nests.
They are migratory and most winter in protected coastal waters or open inland waters on the east and west coasts of North America and the southern United States. Bufflehead is an extremely rare vagrant to western Europe.
These diving birds forage underwater. They eat aquatic insects, crustaceans and plants.
Buffleheads do not tend not to collect in large flocks; groups are usually limited to small numbers (less than 10).
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Synonyms: BuffleheadSynonyms: butterball (n), dipper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bufflehead |
| English words defined with "bufflehead": Buffel duck ♦ Scotch dipper, Scotch duck. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Acrylic painting of a pair of black-bellied whistling ducks by Jim Hautman, 2015 Xanthus Lane, Plymouth, Minnesota 55447. At age 25, he is the youngest wildlife artist ever to win the Duck Stamp Contest. This was the fifth time he entered. Jim placed third in the 1987 contest with a pair of bufflehead ducks. As a full-time wildlife artist, he exhibits regularly at the Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundation's wildlife art show, as well as local exhibitions. He is a native Minnesotan and an avid outdoorsman and hunter. Painting since childhood, he decided to combine his love of the outdoors with his artistic ability. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bufflehead | 12 |
bufflehead duck | 7 |
bufflehead cove | 4 |
bufflehead cove inn | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "bufflehead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | boeffeland. (various references) | |
Dutch | buffelkopeend. (various references) | |
French | PETIT garrot, garrot albéole. (various references) | |
German | Büffelkopfente. (various references) | |
Italian | quattrocchi minore. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uffleheadbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pato-de-touca-branca. (various references) | |
Spanish | porrón albeola. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бовдур (beef-head, beetle-head, blunt, chump, doodle, dumdum, goon, leather-head, noodle, wooden-head). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Bucephala albeola. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bufflehead": buffleheads. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-f-h-l-u" | |
-2 letters: bluehead. | |
-3 letters: baffled, bluffed, effable, heedful. | |
-4 letters: baffed, baffle, beadle, beflea, behalf, behead, beheld, belaud, buffed, deflea, duffel, duffle, fabled, feudal, fueled, hauled, healed, huffed, leafed, luffed. | |
-5 letters: abele, baled, bedel, blade, bleed, blued, bluff, daube, elude, fable, fauld, feued, flued, haled, lehua, lubed, luffa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-f-h-l-u" | |
+1 letter: buffleheads. | |
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