Uria aalge, Auk egg
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Description:
A California murre (Uria aalge californica) egg collected for A. M. Shields. Shields noted the egg had been freshly laid prior to collection and it had been "simply deposited on bare rocks." It was later acquired by Ernest Tabor.
Original set mark: 90, Shields Collection
Tabor Collection
- Site: CA; Humboldt Co.
- Site Number: NH54Y
- 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: CBE8889
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