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Dwarf egg in Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus. / Dvärgägg hos fjällabb Stercorarius longicaudus.

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Författare

Summary, in English

Dwarf eggs, e.g. eggs that are very much smaller than normal eggs, are occasionally found among normal eggs in nests of birds. Although they are not often mentioned in the handbooks, the frequency of dwarf eggs seems to be about one per thousand, or less. In 2001 I found one dwarf egg in a nest with two eggs of the Long-tailed Skua Stercorarius longicaudus at Ammarnas in Swedish Lapland. I did not measure the eggs but have estimated the relative size from photographs. The length was 81.5% and the breadth 74.2% of the normal egg. The volume was calculated to be about 45% of a normal egg. I have not found any note about dwarf eggs in this species. In the nest record material from the Ammarnas area I have found 90 clutches of the Long-tailed Skua with a total of 172 eggs, and among them the dwarf egg that I found is the only one. The sample is, however, too small to give the true frequency of dwarf eggs in the species.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2002

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

173-176

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Ornis Svecica

Volym

12

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Sveriges Ornitologiska Förening

Ämne

  • Ecology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1102-6812