Gavia stellata, Loon egg
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Description:
One of two red-throated loon eggs collected by an unknown collector for Walter Raine (see CBE8871 - CBE8872). Raine noted these eggs had been freshly laid at the time of collection and described the nest as "a mass of grass and rushes on border of a lagoon." Later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 149/2, Raine Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Gaviiformes
- Family: Gaviidae
- Genus: Gavia
- Species: Gavia stellata
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE8871
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