Anas acuta, Duck egg
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Description:
One of eight northern pintail eggs discovered 9 miles (14.48 km) east and 1 mile (1.61 km) north of Didsbury, Mountain View County, after flushing the bird (see CBE2476 - CBE2483). The eggs had been freshly laid in a nest that was "of dry grass and leaves, on road allowance, hid in small willow bush," (Hamm Slip).
Original Set Mark: 59.01 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: CBE2479
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