Bufflehead Duck Hunting & Alaska Duck hunting for bufflehead
Bufflehead Duck hunting
The Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small sea duck of the , the goldeneyes family. They are 32-39 cm long, with the drakes larger than the females.
Adult males have a dark head with a large white cap behind the eye and a mainly white body with a black back. Adult females have a brown head with a smaller white patch behind the eye and a mainly brown body.
Drake Bufflehead Right and Female Bufflehead Left
Their breeding habitat is wooded lakes and ponds in Alaska and Canada. They nest in cavities in trees, often using old Flicker nests.They are migratory and most winter in protected coastal waters or open inland waters on the east and west coasts of North America and the southern United States. Bufflehead is an extremely rare vagrant to western Europe.These diving birds forage underwater. They eat aquatic insects, crustaceans and plants.
Buffleheads do not tend not to collect in large flocks; groups are usually limited to small numbers (less than 10).
Experience Bufflehead hunting in Prince William sound ,Alaska's Finest Bufflehead hunting is from mid November-Mid December.
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Alaska Sea Duck Hunting Trips
Aleutian Island Waterfowlers offers Bufflehead hunting and Sea duck hunting trips that can be based out of one of our remote lodges in Bristol Bay, or Valdez. We can match up all levels of duck hunters with a trip that will meet there budget and expectations. Our guided Bufflehead Sea duck trips start at $375pp a day with lodging and run up to $600 a day for fly-out duck hunting to remote Alaska. When you book an Alaska duck hunt with Aleutian Island Waterfowlers you are assured of a 1st class duck hunt with over 30 years combined guide experience.
Come enjoy the last great wilderness duck hunting. Live your Dream and hunt over hand made decoys for Bufflehead, Scoters, Harlequin, Goldeneye with Alaska's Premier Duck hunting guides.
