Rissa tridactyla, Kittiwake egg
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Description:
One of three black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla tridactyla) eggs (see CBE8899 - CBE8901) collected by Marsden for W. Raine. Raine noted the eggs were freshly laid at the time of collection and that they had been found in a nest of seaweed on the ledge of a sea cliff. They were later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 1/3, Raine Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: Europe; Scotland; Shetland Islands
- Site Number: NH8Ma
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Genus: Rissa
- Species: Rissa tridactyla
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE8900
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