Anas crecca, Duck egg
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Description:
One of ten Eurasian green-winged teal eggs collected from Laxardal, North Iceland, when their incubation had just begun and identified when the bird was flushed (see CBE2392 - CBE2401). The nest "was placed under a thick shrub on a hill side, and was well concealed. It was lined with dead grass and leaves, also some down," (Palsson slip).
Synonym: Anas crecca crecca Linnaeus, 1758
Original Set Mark: 18/2 Palsson Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Anas
- Species: Anas crecca
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2397
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