Stercorarius longicaudus, Jaeger egg
Contact The Charleston Museum for image use and credit instructions.
Description:
One of two long-tailed jaeger eggs (CBE1854 - CBE1855) collected from Petsamo, "Korvan Fo.", Finland between June 19 and 20, 1932. They had been positively identified and freshly laid at the time of collection. They were eventually acquired by Kreugar who noted they were found "on ground, near little mountain sea." They were later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 5853, Kreuger Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Europe; Finland
- Site Number: NH8L
- Dimensions: L-53.55 Cir-54.1 cm
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Stercorariidae
- Genus: Stercorarius
- Species: Stercorarius longicaudus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1855
- Search Terms