Scolopax minor, Woodcock egg
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Description:
One of four freshly incubated American woodcock eggs (CBE1225 - CBE1228) collected from the same nest in Tuckerton. The nest area was "on the ground, small hole in dirt, no nest." (Davis slip)
Synonym: Philohela minor
Original set mark: none; Davis Collection
Sprunt Collection
- Site: NJ; Ocean Co.
- Site Number: NH75G
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Scolopacidae
- Genus: Scolopax
- Species: Scolopax minor
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1225
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