Uria aalge, Auk egg
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Description:
One California murre (Uria aalge californica) egg collected from Farallone Island off the coast of San Francisco. Craig noted the egg had been freshly laid prior to collection and the nesting site was bare rock. It was later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 6/1, Craig Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: CA; San Francisco
- Site Number: NH54T
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Uria
- Species: Uria aalge
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Auks, Penguins, Puffins
- Object Id: CBE8888
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