Buteo jamaicensis, Hawk egg
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Description:
One of two western red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis calurus) eggs collected in the vicinity of Gordornieces Creek, near Salinas in Jack Hanolin Canyon, Monterey county, California (see CBE882 - CBE883). The clutch was collected in April 1894 by L.W. Brokaw. Brokaw noted the following about the nest: "Diameter, inside 9 in., Outside 24 in. Depth, inside 3 in, outside 12 in. 55 feet from the ground in a large sycamore tree and made of sycamore sticks and twigs, with dry sycamore leaves intermixed, and lined with dry grass, green leaves and bark fibers." Identification was confirmed by observing a parent nearby. The clutch was later acquired by Alexander Sprunt, Jr.
Original set mark: 3/2, Broker collection.
- Site: CA; California
- Site Number: NH54
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Accipitriformes
- Family: Accipitridae
- Genus: Buteo
- Species: Buteo jamaicensis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Birds of Prey
- Object Id: CBE883
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