Podiceps nigricollis, Grebe egg
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Description:
One of five freshly laid black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis californicus) eggs (CBE8850 - CBE8854) collected by Raine in a nest he described as "floating decayed rushes in a marsh. Eggs covered with decayed vegetation." Later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
This grebe is also sometimes referred to as the American eared grebe or simply eared grebe.
Original set mark: 0/5, 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 nigricollis
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Freshwater Birds
- Object Id: CBE8852
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