Gavia stellata, Loon egg
Description:
One of two red-throated loon (Gavia stellata) eggs collected from Laxardal in northern Iceland by W. Palsson (see CBE1813-CBE1814). Palsson noted the eggs had been freshly laid at the point of collection and they "were placed on the bare ground on the margin of a small mountain lake." Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 35/4, Palsson collection
- Site: Iceland
- Site Number: NH17
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Gaviiformes
- Family: Gaviidae
- Genus: Gavia
- Species: Gavia stellata
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Fowl Birds
- Object Id: CBE1814
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