Nature, 3rd prize
Frans Lanting
01 January, 1986
The eggs of a murre, a large sea bird.
The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology houses a unique bird egg museum, which preserves a total of 800,000 eggs from 250 individual collections.
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Our annual contest recognizes and rewards the best in photojournalism and documentary photography.
