FMNH 5999

Credit: (c) Field Museum of Natural History
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse egg
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Sharp-tailed Grouse bird egg FMNH 5999
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse egg
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Sharp-tailed Grouse bird egg FMNH 5999
FM Catalog: Birds
Catalog Subset: Egg
Scientific Name: Tympanuchus phasianellus campestris
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Phasianidae
Genus: Tympanuchus
Species: phasianellus
Subspecies: campestris
Collector: E. S. Rolfe
Geography: North America, USA, North Dakota, Benson Co. [LL]
DWc Country: United States of America
Date Collected: 15 May 1901
Tissue Available?: No
Co-ordinates Available?: Yes
Latitude, Longitude: 48.1087, -99.1874
EMu IRN: 1749262
OccurenceID: 3bd82712-25ba-4991-a6d2-3ccf5ebb4044
Measurements:
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