Mareca penelope, Duck egg
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Description:
One of nine Eurasian wigeon eggs that were collected from Laxardal, North Iceland (see CBE2375 - CBE2383). The incubation had just started and the eggs identified when the bird was flushed. The nest "was a hollow scooped in the ground under a shrub on a hillside. It was lined with leaves from the shrub also some down," (Palsson slip).
Synonym: Anas penelope Linnaeus
Original mark set: 16/3 Palsson Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Mareca
- Species: Mareca penelope
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2375
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