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Common Sandpiper Egg
The sandpiper nests close to water. Its nest is normally well hidden and is lined with grass or dead leaves. It lays one clutch of eggs a year that normally contains four eggs. These can vary in colour from buff to ceamy pink. They are marked with red, dark brown and grey specks and splodges scattered all over the shell which are normally denser towards the larger end.
These eggs are inscribed with the collectors number 252 and 167; from notes accompanying the eggs we know that they were all collected in Iceland inthe 1860's.
Accession Numbers SHRCM Z.00471