Spatula discors, Duck egg
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Description:
One of ten blue-winged teal eggs that were freshly incubated when collected after flushing the bird from the nest (CBE2410 - CBE2419). The nest was "placed on a small island in Luther Marsh made of grass and down from parent bird. Well arched over with dead grass," (Pickering Slip).
Synonym: Anas discors discors Linnaeus, 1766
Original Set Mark: 1-4 Pickering Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Canada; Ontario; Wellington Co.
- Site Number: NH13Bf
- 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: CBE2412
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