Larus argentatus, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three herring gull (Larus argentstus smithsonianus) eggs (CBE8911 -CBE8913) collected from the Isle of Nors. Proud noted that the eggs had been freshly laid at the time of collection and the nests for this species were "usually built on the rocks and made of seaweed." The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 5F/3, Proud Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: Europe; Scotland; Shetland Islands
- Site Number: NH8Ma
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus argentatus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE8912
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