Podiceps auritus, Grebe egg
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Description:
One of five horned grebe (Podiceps auritus cornutus) eggs collected from Crescent Lake in northwestern Canada (see CBE8845 - CBE8849). They were found in "a mass of decayed weeds floating in the marsh." Later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: R/5, Raine Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: Canada; Sasketchewan; Assinoboia
- Site Number: NH13Ia
- 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: CBE8847
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