Mareca strepera, Duck egg
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Description:
One of nine common gadwall eggs collected from Mountain View County, 12 mi. = 19.31 km. east and 3 mi. = 4.83 km. south of Didsbury (see CBE2357 - CBE2365). The eggs were freshly incubated when collected and identified when the bird was flushed. The nest was "in small patch of buck brush of fine grass and down," (Hamm slip).
Synonym: Anas strepera Linnaeus, 1758
Original set mark: 168-9 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: Mareca
- Species: Mareca strepera
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2363
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