Mareca strepera, Duck egg
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Description:
One of nine gadwall eggs that were collected from Klamath River (see CBE2366 - CBE2374). The eggs were about seven days into their incubation and identified when the parent was flushed from the site. The nest was "composed of down from parents breast. Situated in hay field about 150 yd. from river," (Jewett slip).
Synonym: Anas strepera
Original mark set: 1/9 1916 Jewett Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: OR; Klamath Co.
- Site Number: NH60I
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Mareca
- Species: Mareca strepera
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE2367
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