Spatula discors, Duck egg
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Description:
One of eleven blue-winged teal eggs that were freshly incubated when collected from Dufferin County after flushing the bird from the nest (see CBE2430 - CBE2440). The nest was "made of dead grass and weeds lined with down. Nest was placed on small island in large marsh. Nest was well concealed in dead grass," (Pickering Slip).
Synonym: Anas discors discors Linnaeus, 1766
Original Set Mark: 2-61 Pickering Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Canada; Ontario
- Site Number: NH13B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Spatula
- Species: Spatula discors
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2440
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