Spatula clypeata, Duck egg
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Description:
One of nine northern shoveler eggs discovered 10 miles (= 16.09 km) east and 1.5 miles (2.41 km) south of Didsbury in Mountain View County after flushing the bird (see CBE2450 - CBE2458). The eggs had been freshly laid in a nest that was "composed of dry grass and down hidden in a patch of quack grass," (Hamm Slip).
Synonym: Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758
Original Set Mark: 39-9 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: Spatula
- Species: Spatula clypeata
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2456
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