Fratercula arctica, Puffin egg
Description:
A common puffin (Fratercula arctica arctica) egg collected from Bald Island off the coast of Labrador, Canada. Collector A.C. Bent noted it was collected shortly after it was laid and it was found "in burrow in stoney ground, 30" long by 10" deep." Later acquired by Arthur Trezevant Wayne.
Original set mark: 6/1, Bent collection
- Site: Canada; Labrador; Bald Island
- Site Number: NH13Ha
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Fratercula
- Species: Fratercula arctica
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE7065
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