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
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE7074
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