Oxyura jamaicensis, Duck egg
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Description:
One of eleven ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis rubida) eggs (CBE1427-CBE1437) collected from the same nest at Goose Lake in North Dakota in June of 1922. Ogg noted the nest was, "in a lump of dry rushes about 8 in. above the water lined with dry grass and down."
- Site: ND; Wells Co.; Goose Lake
- Site Number: NH96C
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Oxyura
- Species: Oxyura jamaicensis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE1436
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