Leucophaeus pipixcan, Gull egg
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Description:
One of three freshly incubated Franklin's gull eggs collected from Stobart Lake within the [Blackfoot Indian Reservation] Siksika Nation (south east of Strathmore). Kondla's slip described the nest as a "large basket of bulrushes floating in water 3 ft. deep" and also noted that "thousands of gulls nesting throughtout reedy areas of the Lake." The eggs were later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Synonym: Larus pipixcan
Original set mark: 80, Kondla Collection
Cutts Collection
- Site: Canada; Alberta; Stobart Lake
- Site Number: NH13Ca
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Leucophaeus
- Species: Leucophaeus pipixcan
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1973
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