Anas platyrhynchos, Mallard egg
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Description:
One of nine mallard eggs (CBE1039-CBE1047) collected from the same nest in Bear River, Utah. The nest was made "of grass with feathers -- in long dead salt grass close to a slough."
- Site: UT; Box Elder Co.
- Site Number: NH61F
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Anseriformes
- Family: Anatidae
- Genus: Anas
- Species: Anas platyrhynchos
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE1039
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