Uria lomvia, Auk egg
Description:
A thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia arra) egg collected from the southweastern cape of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska in June 1967. This egg was originally collected by S.G. Sealy who noted the egg had been freshly laid before collection from a cliff's edge. The parent had been observed and was reference for egg identification. Later acquired by Ernest Cutts.
Original set mark: 120-1, Sealy Collection
- Site: AK; Alaska
- Site Number: NH67
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Holocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Alcidae
- Genus: Uria
- Species: Uria lomvia
- Collection: Ornithology Collection
- Object Name: Marine Birds
- Object Id: CBE1846
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