---
title: "Buffelkopeend"
description: "Bucephala albeola — Vogels. The bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/bufflehead
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Buffelkopeend

> Bucephala albeola — Vogels. The bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes.

- Scientific name: *Bucephala albeola*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 98630
- Wikidata: [Q576762](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q576762)
- iNaturalist taxon: [6993](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6993)

## Names

- en: Bufflehead
- de: Büffelkopfente
- es: Pato monja
- fr: Garrot albéole
- nl: Buffelkopeend
- pt: Pato-de-touca-branca
- pl: Gągołek

## Countries with the most observations

US (66156), CA (25780), MX (1688), JP (39), IT (23), NL (19), GB (17), RU (9), DE (5), IE (4), PT (4), BM (3)

## Summary

The bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. It breeds in Alaska and Canada and migrates in winter to southern North America. This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Anas albeola.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufflehead

## Photo

![Buffelkopeend](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bufflehead/medium.jpg)

Photo: Mark Connolly · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/332772982

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bufflehead?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).