Bird Sightings: Bufflehead

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Bird Sightings: Bufflehead

Bufflehead (Female 1st Winter)

Bucephala albeola

Photography © Martin Scott
Loch na Muilne - Arnol - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
8th June, 2007

Bufflehead is a rare visitor to the UK, with only ten UK records between 1958 and 2004.
The Western isles being the 2004 record.

The Bufflehead is an accidental visitor to the Western Isles - very unlikely to ever breed here according to information from the BTO web site.:

"...The Bufflehead nests almost exclusively in holes excavated by Northern Flickers (a type of American woodpecker)..."

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Loch na Muilne is a new RSPB reserve, a breeding ground of phalarope.

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