Mareca americana, Duck egg
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Description:
One of seven American wigeon eggs (CBE7156-CBE7162) collected from the same nest at Stump Lake. The nest was "of grass and down, in clump of weeds on island."
Synonym: Anas americana Gmelin, 1789
- Site: ND; Nelson Co.
- Site Number: NH96D
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Mareca
- Species: Mareca americana
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE7161
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