Aix sponsa
date: label: Collection Date
content: 25 Mar 2010
notes: label: Notes
content: The kill was observed by the collector
label: Notes
content: Adult female wood duck (Aix sponsa) killed by Cooper's Hawk. 25 Mar 2010. At a point 30 m WNW of the intersection of Brooke Road and Sentinel Ridge Lane (Google Earth coordinates 38 22' 25.28"N, 77 20' 14.82"W), 8.2 km SE of Stafford, 3.8 km ESE of Brooke. , Stafford County, Virginia. The time was 12:45-12:50 pm on a cool, completely overcast day with the temperature ca. 11-13C. Habitat low, swampy forest with pools and streams and numerous old gnarled trees with broken branches suited for nesting cavities. Moderately fat, no molt. Contained a fully formed shelled egg (unbroken) weighing 34.4g. There were five unshelled ova ranging from 8 to 30 mm in diameter, as well as smaller undeveloped ova. The weight of the partially eaten carcass was 610g. The weight of an amount of skin and muscle form the right side approximately equivalent to that removed by the hawk from teh left weighed 46 g, for a total of 656g, which would be a minimum considering reduction by desiccation and fluid loss. Soft part colors: orbital ring yellow, iris brown, bill greenish fuscous, tomium pinkish, mandible mottled, feet olive and webs black.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Stafford, 8.2 km SE, in a ditch 30 m off intersection of Brooke Road and Sentinel Ridge Lane, Stafford, Virginia, United States, North America
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Birds
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Aix sponsa
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division
identifier: label: Other Numbers
content: Field Number : CAG 3571
label: USNM Number
content: 623662
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Anseriformes, Anatidae, Anatinae
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Whole Bird
content: 610 g
label: Preparation
content: Skeleton: Whole
label: Preparation
content: Skin: Partial
label: Remarks
content: boneless spread wing and tail
label: Sex
content: Female