Sterna fuscata
date: label: Collection Date
content: Sep 1979 to Oct 1979
name: label: Collector
content: Jan G. Reese
notes: label: Notes
content: Based on recent correspondence between Jan Reese and David Bridge, the circumstance surrounding the collection of Sooty Tern, now specimen USNM 600392 needs to be amended to more accurately document the discovery and preservation of this specimen. Below is the approved wording from Jan Reese. -David Bridge, April 8, 2014. Collector: Jan Reese Collectors Field Number: JR 79-96 Sex: none Location: Maryland, Talbot Co. Poplar Island Date Coll: October 21, 1979 Remarks: Found dead Oct. 21, 1979 by Kathy Riddle and Jan Reese. The specimen was intact and articulated and its condition was desiccated and mummified, the body tissue had been largely eat away, presumable by insects. The specimen's condition indicating that it had been dead for several weeks when found. It is assumed its occurrence is associated with the remnants of hurricane David which passed over Maryland on Sept. 5-6, 1979. The mummified specimen was found among flotsam drift above and landward of the beach shoreline, presumed to have been pushed there by the high tides of the September storm. The sex of the specimen could not be determined because there was no tissue to be examined. The mummified specimen was preserved as found.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Sep 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Poplar Island, Talbot, Maryland, United States, North America
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content: Vertebrate Zoology
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content: Birds
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Sterna fuscata
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Vertebrate Zoology - Birds Division
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: 600392
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Charadriiformes, Laridae
physicalDescription: label: Preparation
content: Skin: Whole
label: Sex
content: Unknown