Larus brachyrhynchus, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three freshly incubated short-billed gull eggs collected from Spenard Lake in Spenard, South Central District. Stribling's slip noted that the nest was "placed on small mound in open tundra approx. 1 mi. = 1.61 km from the lake. Made of small sticks with grass lining." He made a positive identification, how "this bird tried very hard to protect her nest, powerdiving and screaming practically hitting my hat when I was still some distance from her nest." The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts (see CBE1929 - CBE1931).
Synonym: Larus canus brachyrhynchus Richardson, 1831
Original set mark: 12, 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: Larus
- Species: Larus brachyrhynchus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1929
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