HUNTING HORIZONS - Worldwide Hunting Seasons Database

Barrow's Goldeneye [Bucephala islandica] is a medium-sized sea duck found largely in northwestern North America, also in scattered locations in eastern Canada and Iceland. They are migratory and most winter in protected coastal waters or open inland waters. It is an extremely rare vagrant to Western Europe and to southern North America.
LENGTH: 46 cm WEIGHT: 1.0-1.1 kg WINGSPAN: 77 cm
MALE: Breeding: Head purplish-black; bright crescent-shaped white patch on side of face at base of bill, thin at top, rounded at bottom; short, triangular black bill, eyes are golden yellow. Sides, breast, belly, and secondaries bright white whilst back, wings, and tail are black reaching onto shoulder with a series of white squares along sides above wings.
Non Breeding: like female, but with some black tinge at sides.
FEMALE: Chocolate brown head, pale yellow eyes and short triangular bill which is mostly yellow. Back, wings, tail slate gray with flanks with white belly and breast.
JUVENILE: Immature similar to female; first winter male similar to adult male, but has browner head, grey sides and chest, and smaller and less distinct white crescent on face.
HABITAT: Barrow's Goldeneye is seldom found with Common Goldeneye and lives largely on ponds, small lakes and rivers. Their breeding habitat is largely wooded lakes and ponds.
FEEDING: These diving birds forage underwater. They eat aquatic insects, crustaceans and pond vegetation. Insects and insect larvae, crustaceans, molluscs, and plant material
CALL: Guttural croaking, with various catlike squeals from males during courtship.