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Or how to recognize a bufflehead duck simply by the way he flies out of the water.

"Ah, you park rangers wouldn't know a bufflehead from a widgeon."

The Bufflehead is an extremely rare vagrant to western Europe.

Early on, a dapper male bufflehead dropped in among our decoys, but we didn't shoot.

And no one to blame for it but my own bufflehead self, for lacking the wit to come inside on a wild night.

A female bufflehead refuses to fly.

Bufflehead and goldeneye ducks occasionally nest near the lakes.

A rare transatlantic vagrant, drake differing especially from drake Bufflehead (p. 65) in its thin bill.

He would not become a pitiful bufflehead who pined and whimpered over a female who had eluded his grasp.

This was followed by similar awards in 1964 for the bufflehead and in 1977 for being first to breed the harlequin duck.

It was while endeavoring to explain the difference be- tween a bufflehead and a baldpate that he had his bright idea.

Bufflehead ducks!"

Iceland's third Bufflehead, a male at Dynjandi from February to April.

Waterfowl are primarily American Black Ducks and Bufflehead.

Hills Creek Lake is a stop over for migrating waterfowl like the loon, bufflehead and merganser.

The Bufflehead ranges from 32-40 cm long (12.5-16 inches) and 270-550 g (0.6-1.2 lbs), with the drakes larger than the females.

The name Bufflehead is a combination of buffalo and head, referring to the oddly bulbous head shape of the species.

"That bufflehead!"

In contrast to many other seaducks that have declined in recent decades, Bufflehead numbers have remained relatively constant.

The first vagrant Bufflehead recorded in the West Midlands county was found here in June 2004.

Undoubtedly, Sidney's most famous inhabitant is the handsome Bufflehead featured prominently on its Coat of Arms.

Tundra swans and Canada geese winter at the park as do bufflehead, mallard and Wood Ducks.

Bufflehead are arguably one of the most colorful species of waterfowl which pass through Enzo Creek each spring and fall.

In winter, there are flocks of scaup, common goldeneye, mergansers, bufflehead, old-squaw and black ducks.

Chief Inspector Bufflehead - Willard's often credulous superior and chief inspector of the Swiss police.