Gavia arctica, Loon egg
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Description:
One of two black-throated loon (Gavia arctica viridigularis) eggs collected from the Lapland District of Finland (see CBE8869 - CBE8870).
Stok Collection
- Site: Europe; Finland
- Site Number: NH8L
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Gaviiformes
- Family: Gaviidae
- Genus: Gavia
- Species: Gavia arctica
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE8869
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