Aechmophorus occidentalis, Grebe egg
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Description:
One of five western grebe eggs (see CBE8835 - CBE8839). Cass noted that the incubation had "commenced" and that the nest was "a mass of decayed vegetation floating in 4.5 ft of water." Addtionally, there were "about 500 nest[s] in colony. Nearby a large colony of American eared grebe."
Original set mark: 72/5, Cass collection
- Site: ND; Ramsey Co.; Sweetwater Lake
- Site Number: NH96Ba
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Podicipediformes
- Family: Podicipedidae
- Genus: Aechmophorus
- Species: Aechmophorus occidentalis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Freshwater Birds
- Object Id: CBE8837
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