Chroicocephalus philadelphia, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three Bonaparte's gull eggs collected from Hood Lake near Spenard (see CBE1982 - CBE1984). The nest was "near top of Alaska spruce tree, about 18 ft. tall. Made of Alaska spruce twigs and lined with black spruce moss. Bird very noisy and disturbed when I neared her nest." The eggs had been freshly laid at the time of collection. They were later acquired by Ernest Cutts ," (Stribling slip).
Synonym: Larus philadelphia (Ord, 1815)
Original set mark: 34 Stribling Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: AK; Alaska
- Site Number: NH67
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Chroicocephalus
- Species: Chroicocephalus philadelphia
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1984
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