Larus marinus, Gull egg
Description:
One of three black-backed gull (Larus marinus) eggs (CBE7076-CBE7078) collected from Querachoo Island, Labrador by A. C. Bent in May 1909. Eggs had been freshly laid in a nest "of grasses and mosses on base [of] rocky island. Later acquired by Arthur T. Wayne.
Original set mark: 4/3; Bent collection.
- Site: Canada
- Site Number: NH13
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Larus
- Species: Larus marinus
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE7078
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