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Common Name:Goldeneye, Common
Scientific Name:Bucephala clangula
Family:Anatidae
Area:male - Lake Havasu - Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona
Date:March 2, 2010

This is a male Common Goldeneye. Note the green cast of the head with the circular white spot. The other Goldeneye, a Barrow's has a purple cast with a crescent shaped white spot.


female - Lake Havasu - Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona --- March 2 , 2010

Reference:Western Birds by Peterson