Field Notes · Catnum 186581 · Typed card
Nest the usual cup-shaped affair made of mud and lined with grass and located 15 feet high in sycamore tree in front yard of 254 Tigertail Road. Egg weights: #1: 5.709 g; #2: 6.093 g; #3: 6.622 g. Odd-shaped egg (#1) was apparently infertile.
Metadata · Catnum 186581
Date02 Jul 1981
LocalityBrentwood, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Coordinates34.062858, -118.479118 ↗ map
CollectorKiff, Lloyd F.
Eggs in Set3
Specimen Typeb
Incubationcommenced (transcribed as “Showing blood: 3”)
Identificationflushed (transcribed as “Bird flushed from nest”)
Nest Height4.57 m (15 feet)
Nest Supportsycamore tree
Nest Materialsmud
Nest Lininggrass
Nest Settingfront yard of 254 Tigertail Road
Nest NotesNest the usual cup-shaped affair. Egg weights: #1: 5.709 g; #2: 6.093 g; #3: 6.622 g. Odd-shaped egg (#1) was apparently infertile.
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✦ Anecdote
This record is unusual in that it provides precise individual egg weights for each of the three eggs, which is uncommon detail for historical oological records.