Spatula clypeata, Duck egg
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Description:
One of seven freshly incubated northern shoveler eggs collected from a nest at Crane Lake "of down in grass on prairie" (Bent slip). (see CBE7170 - CBE7176)
Synonym: Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 1758
Original set mark: 4/7 Bent Collection
Wayne Collection
- Site: Canada; Sasketchewan
- Site Number: NH13I
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Spatula
- Species: Spatula clypeata
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE7170
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