: a small North American diving duck (Bucephala albeola)
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Recent Examples on the WebIn an all-day coastal marsh sit, three of us downed a single lesser scaup and a lone bufflehead. T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 1 Jan. 2021 Within 100 yards of the trailhead, a blue surgical mask caught the sun in a thicket of reeds, a flock of bufflehead ducks paddling through the calm waters in a V formation just a few yards away. Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020 Newly arrived wild ducks—buffleheads and hooded mergansers—circle in small groups near the shore. Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020 And, in fact some swimmers do come in the winter: buffleheads, ring-necked ducks, mergansers and other waterfowl visiting from the north.New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019 Ring-necked ducks, buffleheads and hooded mergansers arrive for the winter.Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018 Unlike the chubby bufflehead ducks nearby, the mergansers were low-slung and long, and far more colorful. Dave Taft, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018 See More