Leucophaeus pipixcan, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three Franklin's gull eggs that were a quarter of the way through their incubation when they were collected from Stobart Lake, south east of Strathmore (see CBE1976 - CBE1978). The "nest were piles of reeds in reed beds, built above 3 1/2 ft. of water. Thousands of gulls nesting in the reeds in the lake," (Shier's slip). Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Synonym: Larus pipixcan Wagler, 1831
Original set mark: 2-65 Shier Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Canada; Alberta; Stobart Lake
- Site Number: NH13Ca
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Leucophaeus
- Species: Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1976
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