Fratercula arctica, Puffin egg
Description:
A common puffin (Fratercula arctica) egg collected from Bald Island in Labrador, Canada. Collector A.C. Bent noted it had been freshly laid "in burrow in stoney ground, 30" long by 10" deep, on high rocky island." 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: CBE7066
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