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The "butterball", with its showy white crest is one of North America's smallest diving duck species.
Bufflehead
Bufflehead 
Bucephala albeola
The "butterball", with its showy white crest is one of North America's smallest diving duck species. Like its close relative, the common goldeneye, the bufflehead nests in cavities in trees close to water, often in the abandoned homes of flickers and other woodpeckers. The bufflehead arrives late in spring and departs just in advance of freeze-up. It breeds in forested areas from west-central Alaska through western Canada and the northwestern states.
