Capercaillie or wood grouse or heather cock eggs
- Description
- Clutch of 9 eggs collected on 23 May 1943. The record card reads ‘ [nest] At foot of tree in wood. A very muchly varied set’.
- Accession Loan No.
- 46/2010/2
- Collection Class
- Birds
- Common Name
- capercaillie or wood grouse or heather cock eggs
- Simple Name
- bird: eggs
- Full Name
- PHASIANIDAE: Tetrao urogallus: capercaillie
- Period Classification
- World War II (1939-1945); Modern (1900-)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- M, C S (from the collection of): Gowland, C H (from the collection of): Murison, G
- Collection Town
- Durris
- Collection County
- Aberdeenshire
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: Scotland
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
- Phylum
- CHORDATA: VERTEBRATA
- Family
- PHASIANIDAE
- Genus
- Tetrao
- Species
- urogallus
