Buteo lineatus, Hawk egg
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Description:
One of four red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus lineatus) eggs collected from Sandy Creek in Oswego county, New York (see CBE884 - CBE887). The clutch was collected in April 1910 by L.C. Snyder. Snyder noted the following about the nest: "in maple tree 32 feet up. Compiled of sticks lined with green hemlock." The clutch was later acquired by Alexander Sprunt, Jr.
Original set mark: 100/4, Snyder collection.
- Site: NY; Oswego Co.
- Site Number: NH74V
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Accipitriformes
- Family: Accipitridae
- Genus: Buteo
- Species: Buteo lineatus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Birds of Prey
- Object Id: CBE884
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