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The common goldeneye or simply goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) is a medium-sized sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. Its closest relative is the similar Barrow's goldeneye . [ 2 ] The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek boukephalos ("bullheaded", from bous , "bull " and kephale , "head"), a reference to the bulbous head ...
Goldeneye. Known fossil taxa are: Bucephala cereti (Sajóvölgyi Middle Miocene of Mátraszõlõs, Hungary - Late Pliocene of Chilhac, France) Bucephala ossivalis (Late Miocene/Early Pliocene of Bone Valley, United States), which was very similar to the common goldeneye and may even have been a paleosubspecies or direct ancestor
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Tribe: Mergini, eiders, scoters, sawbills and other sea-ducks Common goldeneye couple, male on the right (There are 9 extant genera and some 20 living species; most of this group occur in the Northern Hemisphere, but a few [mostly extinct] mergansers in the Southern Hemisphere) Shiriyanetta (prehistoric) Polysticta, Steller's eider
Common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) Barrow's goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) Mergellus Selby, 1840: Smew (Mergellus albellus) Lophodytes Reichenbach, 1853: Hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) Mergus Linnaeus, 1758: Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) †New Zealand merganser (Mergus australis)
Most endemic birds are in the Wallacea region of eastern Indonesia. Sulawesi supports twelve endemic bird genera . Of all Indonesian endemic birds, about sixty-one species are threatened: thirty-seven species are listed as vulnerable , twenty-three are endangered and eleven species are listed as critical on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
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This is a list of the bird species recorded in Kazakhstan.The avifauna of Kazakhstan include a total of 532 species.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.