Catharacta skua, Jaeger egg

Description:

One of two skua (Catharacta skua skua) eggs (CBE7074-CBE7075) collected from Iceland by an unknown collector for G.A. Abbot in May 1899. Later acquired by Arthur T. Wayne.

Original set mark: 1/2; Abbott collection.

• Site: Iceland
• Site Number: NH17
• Era: Cenozoic
• Period: Neogene
• Epoch: Holocene
• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Aves
• Order: Charadriiformes
• Family: Stercorariidae
• Genus: Catharacta
• Species: Catharacta skua

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• Collection: Ornithology Collection
• Object Name: Marine Birds
• Object Id: CBE7075

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