Anas acuta, Duck egg
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Description:
One of eight northern pintail eggs discovered in Mountain View County after flushing the female from the nest (see CBE2468 - CBE2475). The eggs had been freshly laid in a nest that was "in deep grass on the ground. Lined with dry grass and down; not far from slough," (Hamm Slip).
Original Set Mark: 64.07 Hamm Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Canada; Alberta
- Site Number: NH13C
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Anas
- Species: Anas acuta
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2470
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