Podiceps auritus, Grebe egg
Description:
One of five horned grebe (Podiceps auritus cornutus) eggs collected from Manitoba, Canada, (see CBE1564 - CBE1568). Collector Ernest Norman noted the incubation as "far advanced" and described the nest as a "floating platform of mud in a small clump of rushes in about 2 feet of water." Egg identification was made based on the observation of nearby parents. Later acquired by Alexander Sprunt.
Original set mark: 915, Norman Collection
- Site: Canada; Manitoba; Kalwala
- Site Number: NH13Fb
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Podicipediformes
- Family: Podicipedidae
- Genus: Podiceps
- Species: Podiceps auritus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Freshwater Birds
- Object Id: CBE1566
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