Larus hyperboreus, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus hyperboreus) eggs (see CBE8902 - CBE8904) collected for W. Raine from Vistimanni, Iceland. Raine noted their incubation had begun prior to collection and that they had been found in a nest of seaweed on the ledge of a sea cliff. They were later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Synonym: Rissa tridactyla tridactyla
Original set mark: 203/3, Raine Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus hyperboreus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE8904
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