Cepphus columba, Auk egg
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Description:
A pigeon guillemot egg (Cepphus columba columba) collected by F. R. Decker from Flat Top Island, Island County, Washingon in June 1919. Decker notes the egg was resting in a nest "of trash, shells, etc. in grass [and] rocks above high tide."
Original set mark: 2/1 Decker Collection
- Site: WA; Island Co.
- Site Number: NH87C
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Cepphus
- Species: Cepphus columba
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE7951
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